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- James May explores and celebrates his favorite toys from his youth.
- The heroic tales of World War II are legendary, but Operation Crossbow is a little known story that deserves to join the hall of fame: how the Allies used 3D photos to thwart the Nazis' weapons of mass destruction before they could obliterate Britain. This film brings together the heroic Spitfire pilots who took the photographs and the brilliant minds of RAF Medmenham that made sense of the jigsaw of clues hidden in the photos. Hitler was pumping a fortune into his new-fangled V weapons in the hope they could win him the war. But Medmenham had a secret weapon of its own, a simple stereoscope which brought to life every contour of the enemy landscape in perfect 3D. The devil was truly in the detail and, together with extraordinary personal testimonies, the film uses modern computer graphics on the original wartime photographs to show just how the photo interpreters were able to uncover Hitler's nastiest secrets.
- British actor Martin Shaw takes viewers on a tour and tale of the RAF Dam Buster mission of World War II. He points out the few fictional aspects in the 1955 movie, "The Dam Busters." This film has interviews with relatives and friends of the men in the Dambuster Squadron. It visits various sites that were part of the WW II mission. The film culminates with Shaw and former RAF pilot Chris Norton retracing the exact route of the May 16, 1943, attack. They leave RAF Scampton in east-central England on a bright, clear day. They fly their twin-engine light aircraft 100 to 200 feet above the water and ground for 400 miles to the Möhne Dam in Germany's Ruhr Valley.
- Paralympics presenter and former Royal Marines commando 'Arthur Williams' gives his appreciation of one of the greatest British aeroplanes of the Second World War, that he believes history has largely forgotten. While the names Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster have been revered and passed into legend, the 'de Havilland Mosquito' languishes in relative obscurity. For Arthur, the aeroplane known as the 'Wooden Wonder' is the plane that saved Britain. Here he meets some of the few remaining men who flew it, tells its extraordinary story and travels to Virginia Beach in the US to see if he can take to the skies in the world's only remaining flying Mosquito.
- Tells the story of the remarkable ladies who flew for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in World War Two.
- The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British World War II civilian organisation that ferried new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between UK factories, assembly plants, transatlantic delivery points, Maintenance Units (MU), scrap yards, and active service squadrons and airfields-but not to aircraft carriers. It also flew service personnel on urgent duty from one place to another and performed air ambulance work. The documentary tells this remarkable but unknown story, through interviews with surviving ATA members, ATA historians, archive footage and re-enactments.
- May concludes that the major breakthroughs in transportation over the last 100 years shrunk the world not by allowing us to see more of it, but--thanks to television, computers, and fiber optic cable--by increasingly bringing it to us.
- A panel of motoring experts discuss their five favourite off-road cars. These are the tough all-terrain beasts that can drive anywhere, whether it's on tarmac or tundra.
- The epic battle to rebuild The Waterbird, the Royal Navy's first seaplane. Filmed over 12 years, the labour intensive project tests veteran engineer Gerry Cooper.
- James gets a group of thirteen-year-old children from Telford to build a life-size Airfix model of a Spitfire aircraft, complete with a model of himself as the pilot.
- 201048m9.4 (7)TV EpisodeIn the face of war, courage can manifest itself in myriad ways. From the invention of radar to fend of Luftwaffe attacks to the sheer genius that drove wartime codebreaking, the British scientific community rose to the occasion, creating technologies that still impact our lives today.
- Buffalo gets into the stunt flying business when veteran pilot Arnie flies the DC-4 for the reenactment scene of a famous WWII bombing raid. A routine C-46 flight becomes dangerous when a hole in the plane's aging exhaust system sets off the fire alarm, and Devan has to decide whether or not to shut down an engine mid-flight.
- Minnie Driver is on a mission to find out more about her late father, Ronnie, and his family's background.
- John Simpson always thought his great grandfather was Samuel F Cody, famous for being the first person to fly in Britain and a Wild West entertainer.
- Construction of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest warship in the history of the British Royal Navy, is chronicled; also featured are the US-made F-35b fighter jets that will be stationed aboard her.