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Great Planes was the original subset of Wings episodes which focused on one particular aircraft type. The original Great Planes program was initially...

A series of six episodes, entitled Strange Planes (and later released on VHS video), focused on several unusual aircraft types.

Following the Gulf War of 1991, Discovery produced a new short-run program, Wings Over the Gulf, profiling the air war over Iraq before and during...

Wings of the Luftwaffe was a 1992 separately-branded program that focused on Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. It was narrated by Helmut Bakaitis.

Wings of the Red Star was a separately-branded program that focused on Soviet Air Force aircraft from World War II to the modern era. It was narrated...

SeaWings, narrated by Edward Easton, was a separately-branded program that focused on United States (and some foreign) naval aircraft from World War...

Starting in the mid 1990s, newer Wings episodes, sometimes referred to as Wings II, would focus on the history or operations of a particular foreign...

In 2002, this eight-episode program was aired, hosted by David Scott. During the course of the Southeast Asian war, the United States developed many...

First seeing service in the First World War, flying boats quickly adapted to peacetime when they became the world's first airliners. When the Second...

From the German SC-1262, a 1930s drone controlled by wires connected to a telephone, and Hitler's ominous V-1 to ultra-lights and one-man rocket...

Parasites represent enormous technological breakthroughs. In the beginning, Curtis fighters hid inside dirigibles. Later, parasite aircraft launched...

Takes a look at the people behind covert operations and the inventions that hid in the clouds - from the observation balloons of the Civil War to...

Traces the story of aviation's most mammoth aircraft. Built for civil and and military uses, these amazing planes stun the imagination with their...

Tells the fascinating story of attempts to design airplanes that could be launched straight up into the air. From the Bell XV3 and XV15 to the Hawker...

Eliminating the fuselage on aircraft was an idea that never came to fruition, but it gave rise to a smaller, more aerodynamic design: the Flying...

The cavalry has been part of America's history since before the nation was founded and is still in service today. Charge into the fight with this...

Behind the scenes of one of the most arduous basic military training programmes in the world. Each episode focuses on a cross-section of trainees...

Dan Snow joins military archaelogists as they investigate the former battlegrounds of the Second World War, uncovering little-known stories through...