Planes That Never Flew
Season 1
4 episodes · Apr 4, 2003
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- S1E1
The Last Rocket Fighter
Apr 4, 200347mThe British-designed Saunders-Roe SR177, an advanced rocket plane that, though capable of climbing to the very edge of space, fell victim to sabotage by a rival aircraft company.
- S1E2
The American SST
Apr 11, 200347mA documentary on the SST, America's answer to Concorde in the competition between Europe and the United States to build a supersonic airliner.
- S1E3
America's First Jet Fighter
Apr 18, 200347mThe history of 1950s icon the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, designed by engineer Clarence `Kelly' Johnson, who had previously failed in an attempt to create a supersonic fighter.
- S1E4
The Atomic Bomber
Apr 25, 200347mThe story behind plans for an atomic bomber that failed to progress from the drawing board.