NASA Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong adds to his long list of space flight & aviation accomplishments as he takes the controls of a variety of flying machines. Each episode blends historic footage, interviews, and flying. Armstrong takes you on an exhilarating adventure through time.
By the seat of their pants
Every day a better design
Flying aces, war in the air
Flying entrepreneurs
Flying the mail
Backyard fliers: an airplane in every garage
First in speed: air racing
Bigger is better
Fighters between the wars
Testing under fire
New generation of flyers
Air battles at sea
Flash of glory: aerial combat enters the jet age
The helicopter: from dreams to reality
Air forts of the war
First jets
Airliners: passengers join the jet age
The big bombers
Jet fighters: wings of lightening
General aviation: barnstormers to businessmen
Supersonic bombers: the elusive search
Locusts of war
Attack aircraft
Faster than the eye and higher than the sky
Experiments in flight
Rocket aircraft
Whirling wings - evolution of the rotorhead
Water birds - floatplanes and flying boats
Jump to the sky - jet vtol
Tail first flying - the canard
First around the world
Flying blind
Flying wings
Flight control - wing warping to fly-by-wire
Flash of glory - aerial combat enters the jet age
Flying the mail
Backyard fliers - an airplane in every garage
First in speed: air racing
Propellers - wings with a twist
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