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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...

In 1913, aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss became the first to develop the flying boat. From the start, these large seaplanes surpassed land planes in...

Learn how Pan American Airways' giant Clipper flying boats established the world's first air service across two oceans and offered passengers the...

From twin-engine patrol planes to six-engine bombers, flying boats offered versatility and mobility to combatants on both sides of World War II....

Just when post-war aviation had forsaken the large flying boat, three of the biggest ones ever built would make their debut. Howard Hughes' "Spruce...

By the 1950s, flying boat operations in the United States Navy were in decline. Ironically, Navy planners began developing radical new designs...

Today, only Japan, Canada and Russia still produce large flying boats and seaplanes. Designed for special utility and military applications, these...

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

From the Executive Producer Robert Redford, THE AMERICAN WEST tells the story of the aftermath of the CIVIL WAR and how the United States transformed...

Tank Overhaul is a Canadian documentary television program broadcast on the Military Channel starting in 2007. Episodes are filmed at the Isle of...