Plane Resurrection

Season 1

2016 · 6 episodes

Episodes

1. 1

   1. P-51 Mustang

   1 Jan 2016

   Maurice Hammond takes on the restoration of a P-51 Mustang, a US made fighter plane that gave the Allies air superiority over the Luftwaffe in World War II. He finds that the plane has a connection to a famous US airman who flew successful missions from nearby English airfields in World War II.

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   2. Hawker Hurricane

   1 Jan 2016

   Paul Vacher finds a Hawker Hurricane in India. How he gets it back to the UK and up in the air over the fields it helped protect in World War II is as dramatic a story as the role the plane played in the Battle of Britain, protecting England against the Nazis.

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   3. Fokker DR1 Dreidecker

   1 Jan 2016

   Painstakingly restoring the Fokker, the type of airplane favored by the Red Baron, the most famous pilot of WWI, takes surgeon Peter Bruggemann on a journey of exploration into the lives of the young men who flew in the dogfights of World War I.

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   4. Percival Q6

   1 Jan 2016

   Rex Ford is restoring a rare Percival Q6. As he traces its story from the 1930's, he learns of the colorful Aussie aircraft designer-builder, Edgar Percival, and finds that this particular plane may have played a role in a significant moment in World War II history!

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   5. AT6-D Texan "The Harvard"

   1 Jan 2016

   Maurice Hammond and his daughter, Leah, undertake the restoration of an AT-6 Harvard aircraft. At the same time, Leah works on establishing a memorial to the US airmen and RAF pilots who flew from airfields near her home village. See how rebuilding the plane brings World War II history to life.

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   6. PT-17 Stearman

   1 Jan 2016

   Paul Bennett is restoring a Stearman, an open cockpit trainer for pilots in World War II. Like WWI planes, the US built Stearman has a fabric covered fusilage and wire supported wings. Literally thousands of pilots trained on these planes for service in WWII. But then what happened to the planes?