The Aviators (2010)
The Aviators is an award-winning weekly documentary-lifestyle-science TV series featuring interesting people, the latest aircraft, current technology and fly-in destinations. The show's site describes subject matter as follows: "We will take you behind the scenes to show you how airline pilots train, how planes are built, and how ATC works. We will profile aviation businesses and showcase aviation products. We will provide safety tips for private and recreational pilots and career tips for professional pilots." The Aviators premiered on the Global Television Network on Saturday, September 4, 2010. It could also be seen on CHEK-TV in Canada and is distributed to all 356 Public Broadcasting Stations in the United States for broadcast in numerous markets starting in September 2010. On September 1, 2010 the producers announced that a deal had been signed with Discovery Channel Asia that saw the series broadcast overseas in the spring of 2011. In the first six months after its premiere, the show aired almost 8,000 times across North America - an average of over 40 times a day. The Aviators launched on Hulu in February 2011 and was viewed over 32,000 times in just two weeks. In March 2011 producers announced some changes for season two including the addition of country music singer George Canyon to the cast as a guest host for the season. The current season's premiere date is September 16, 2013. Production for a fifth season has begun, and is planned to air in North America in September 2014.
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Seasons
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Episodes season 1
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1x1
One of the biggest airshows on earth
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1x2
Newest and coolest affordable helicopters
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1x3
How to land an airliner
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1x4
Sun n' fun florida
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1x5
The airbus a380
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1x6
Light-sport aviation
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1x7
Air traffic control towers
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1x8
Building your own aircraft & learning about life saving backup instruments
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1x9
Air traffic control centre
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1x10
Ultra-light aviation & airfract auctions
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1x11
Onboard the goodyear blimp
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1x12
Life of a boeing 737 pilot & all about airlines
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1x13
Cross-border flying
Episodes season 2
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2x1
Aviation 101
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2x2
Atc gibberish
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2x3
$100 hamburger
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2x4
Private pilot / miramar
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2x5
Day in the life of an air show, pt. 1
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2x6
Day in the life of an air show, pt. 2
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2x7
Aopa summit
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2x8
Remote control aircraft
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2x9
Dream flight / joe nall / aeroshell aerobatic
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2x10
Aircraft ownership
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2x11
Aircraft engines
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2x12
Aopa / lapd / pete mcleod
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2x13
Cessna 195 / world's busiest tower / aviation camping
Episodes season 3
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3x1
Wwii pilot training t-6 texan
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3x2
Wwii pilot training p-51 mustang
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3x3
Black diamond jet team
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3x4
U.s. air force thunderbirds
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3x5
B-29 fifi
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3x6
Anatomy of a commercial flight
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3x7
Very light jets
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3x8
Aviation career choices
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3x9
Aerostars
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3x10
Hot air balloons
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3x11
Road america fly over
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3x12
Learning to fly: rock star edition
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3x13
Skytypers
Episodes season 4
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4x1
Fls microjet, sr-71, sean d. tucker
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4x2
Zenith 801, legacy flight, ils testing
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4x3
Float planes, buying an aircraft, aircraft boneyard
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4x4
Civil air patrol, awacs, b-17
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4x5
Radial engines, aerial refueling
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4x6
Cobra, team aerodynamix, tank killer
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4x7
Landings, seabee, varied aviation training
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4x8
Glasair, legend cub, terminals
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4x9
Savannah, huey, formation flying
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4x10
How to fly an ils approach, airplane parachutes, 777-300er
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4x11
Aircraft mods, soaring
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4x12
F-4u corsair, aerobatics
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4x13
Goodyear blimp
Episodes season 5
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5x1
The best of the aviators
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5x2
Deconstructing an air show routine, flight attendant school (part 1)
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5x3
Flight attendant school (part 2), hangar flying – fighters
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5x4
Jet man, volunteerism
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5x5
World war ii advancements in aviation, pearl harbor / tora, tora, tora
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5x6
Air show pyrotechnics, hangar flying – bombers
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5x7
100 years of commercial flight
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5x8
Epic aircraft, jet truck
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5x9
Aircraft tires, world’s highest control tower, maintenance
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5x10
Air show radio chatter, hangar flying – general aviation
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5x11
Challenger 605, navigation
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5x12
Bell 407 helicopter, wing-walking
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5x13
Building engines, air tractor
Episodes season 6
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6x1
A pilot without arms, aircraft profile – pitts special
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6x2
L-39 and upset recovery
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6x3
Flying again, aircraft profile – aviat husky
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6x4
Space flight
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6x5
Anatomy of a journey, ground control
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6x6
Wwi aviation
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6x7
Eclipse 550, should you turn back to the airport?
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6x8
It’s the franken-glider, tuskegee airmen
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6x9
Skytyping, personal jet
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6x10
The beloved cub
Episodes season 7
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7x1
Air navigation systems, ultralights
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7x2
Paragliding, applied aerodynamics
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7x3
Air rally 1
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7x4
Air rally 2
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7x5
Pipistrel sinus
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7x6
Thunderstorm
