First Flights with Neil Armstrong - Season 1

Season 1
Season 1 traces the development of aviation technology from balloons to early post-WWII jet aircraft.
Network
DatesSept. 25, 1991 - Dez. 18, 1991
Episodes

Season 1Episode 124 min
By the Seat of Their Pants
Using Lilienthal's glider research, the Wright brothers achieved controlled flight. The French reacted with renewed effort and Bleriot crossed the English Channel. Each airplane had its own personality and a pilot flew by his wits, instinct and luck.
Sept. 25, 1991

Season 1Episode 224 min
Every Day a Better Design
Aviators separated into two groups: the airplane designer/builders and those who tried to master the art of flying. While French pilot Pegoud thrilled crowds by performing aerial loops, new airplanes pushed the bounds of speed and distance.
Okt. 2, 1991

Season 1Episode 324 min
Flying Aces, War in the Air
WW1 gave the airplane a job, soon the battlefields were full of unarmed aircraft, peering down at the trenches, then carrying news of an impending attack. With a machine gun mounted on the cowling of a Morane-Saulnier Bullet, the fighter plane was born.
Okt. 9, 1991

Season 1Episode 424 min
Flying Entrepreneurs
After the war, seasoned pilots who had once dueled with an enemy over the trenches, now performed aerobatics for spectators. Aviators as barnstormers quickly became an endearing folk hero; and also businessman carrying mail and passengers.
Okt. 16, 1991

Season 1Episode 524 min
Bigger is Better
Okt. 23, 1991

Season 1Episode 624 min
Fighters Between the War
Okt. 30, 1991

Season 1Episode 724 min
Testing Under Fire
Nov. 6, 1991

Season 1Episode 824 min
New Generation of Flyers
Nov. 13, 1991

Season 1Episode 924 min
Air Battles At Sea
Nov. 20, 1991

Season 1Episode 1024 min
Air Forts of the War
Nov. 27, 1991

Season 1Episode 1124 min
First Jets
Dez. 4, 1991

Season 1Episode 1224 min
First to Fly
Dez. 11, 1991

Season 1Episode 1324 min
Workhorse of the Sky: The Turboprop
Dez. 18, 1991
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