Plane Resurrection

- Season 3

(2020)

The legendary Vietnam-era helicopter takes to the air in a pristine war-veteran example, and we learn the astonishing story of an aircraft blown up by its own missiles, and a wounded co-pilot went on to found a world-leading charity.

One of only two remaining examples of the monoplane built by Louis Bleriot, the pioneering channel-crosser. This elderly aircraft is put gently through its paces for the cameras, leaving the ground on one of its rare outside excursions.

A look at a beautifully restored example of the later, clipped-wing version of the legendary fighter-plane flown by Czech refugee pilots in the UK during wartime, featuring long-unseen test and operational footage.

The ugly-ducking aircraft that shunned the limelight - and the daylight. Learn the story of how the aircraft, an initial failure, helped win the war supporting covert operations.

The astonishing tale of a tiny 1930s aircraft capable of 230mph, that smashed records all over the world in the hands of an almost forgotten British hero, Alex Henshaw.

Developed just too late for WW2, it was called an aerial anachronism - a piston engine warplane in a world of jets and missiles. However, it was to come into its own during the Korean and Vietnam wars