Behind-the-scenes of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team’s most ambitious overseas tour. The four-part documentary follows the Red Arrows on a 22,000-mile journey across Canada and the United States – aimed at showcasing the best of British in North America. Pictures and footage from the 11-week tour made headlines around the world earlier this year but this series explains how it was done and the challenges overcome.
One month after the outbreak of World War I, Paris is bombarded by German airplanes. Parisians witness a whole new type of warfare. Five pilots from France, Germany, and Britain take us into the world of the greatest "flying aces" of the First World War.
Documentary which goes inside the selection process for the best formation flying team in the world, the Red Arrows. Two pilots are selected to join the Arrows from a shortlist of nine elite RAF candidates. In order to be selected they have to perform a number of tests, from backseat flying, to close-formation manoeuvres, to socialising, to face-to-face, formal interviews.
Airline is an American reality television series that showcases the daily happenings of passengers, ground workers and on-board staff members of Southwest Airlines. The series debuted on January 5, 2004 on A&E and ran for three seasons.
On February 21, 2019, John Raymond Boulanger is preparing to leave the country to return to Colombia. On the last day of his probation, he reveals for the first time many secrets about his career as a mercenary pilot. From the CIA to Pablo Escobar, from the deserts of Libya to the Cali cartel, no Quebecer has lived a similar story.
Historian Dan Snow relives the story of a crack team of 133 young airmen whose mission is to destroy the great dams of Germany in World War Two using a revolutionary new bouncing bomb.
Flying Heavy Metal was a 5-part British television series produced by Ricochet and broadcast in the UK and Europe on the Discovery Channel and subsequently repeated on Discovery Wings in the UK. It was presented by commercial Boeing 757 pilot and Iron Maiden frontman, Bruce Dickinson. In the series, Bruce looked at, and often flew, a number of aircraft from across the history of commercial aviation. There were some quite surprising aerobatics done in rather large aircraft. Flying Heavy Metal is now repeated on the new channel from Discovery Networks UK called Discovery Turbo.
The story of the Red Arrows squadron, the world's most elite acrobatic display team, as it creates a new jaw-dropping display and embarks on a challenging worldwide season.
VTM NEWS report series about Belgian F-16 pilots.
Welcome to the Centre Québécois de Formation Aéronautique – the largest public aviation school in Quebec – where young student pilots come to achieve their goal of flying for a living. Working to earn their airline, bush pilot, or helicopter licenses, the trainees are subjected to quasi-military training and intense challenges they must overcome. But that’s par for the course when you consider what’s at stake. These future pilots must be able to work under extreme pressure and be prepared to handle any scenario that might come up while they are in the cockpit.
All Along the Watchtower is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 1999 about an RAF base in Scotland. It was written by Pete Sinclair and Trevelyan Evans.
As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
In a backwater corner of the South Pacific in 1938, a young American adventurer and his ragtag group of friends become involved in death-defying hi-jinx, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane.
Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
Voltes V: Legacy follows the story of three brothers, Steve, Big Bert, and Little Jon Armstrong, and their friends Jamie Robinson and Mark Gordon, as they fight the forces of humanoid aliens known as Boazanians who plans to invade the earth and launch their beast fighters all over the world.
Baloo the Bear stars in an adventurous comedy of love and conflict with his friend Kit Cloudkicker. Rebecca Cunningham and her daughter Molly purchase Baloo's failing company and Baloo must fly transport runs to clear his debt while dodging Don Karnage and his sky pirates.
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The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.
Follows the students at Empire Test Pilots' School at Boscombe Down from selection to final flying exam.