Movies: Aviation

1910 Aviation Meet, Mineola Flying Fields, New York City. Miss E. Lillian Todd - history's first female aeronautical engineer - is making last minute checks before her plane will take to the skies. She has fought many battles to make it onto the airf...

The X-15 was the last in a line of manned rocket-powered research airplanes built during the 1950s to explore ever-faster and higher flight regimes. Nineteen years before Space Shuttle, the X-15 showed it was possible to fly into, and out of, space. ...

Reg Sherren revisits the players and the places that were critical in the Gimli Glider incident of July 1983....

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain....

100-years of naval aviation, from wobbly gliders and the first shipboard landing in 1911 to modern supersonic jets and unmanned aerial vehicles. The film deftly interweaves archival footage, interviews with historical and military experts....

During the Falklands War, a team of Vulcan Bombers staged the longest bombing raid ever attempted. We tell the amazing story of the machines that undertook the near impossible mission of bombing Port Stanley. The programme features archive footage sp...

Best of the 2009 convention, including the Airbus A-380 ~ WhiteKnightTwo ~ Red Bull Helicopter ~ the Erickson Air-Crane ~Meet AirVenture’s “Air Boss” ~ Sully Sullenberger and Jeff Skiles ~ Performance by Jeff Dunham ~ Opening Concert by the Doobie Br...

Portrait of Rolf Ewald, a flight obsessive, who recounts his experiences as a pilot and manager at Düsseldorf Airport in an impressive way....

On December 7, 1926, the pilot and photographer Walter Mittelholzer set off on an expedition that took him 77 days in a Dornier Merkur seaplane to Cape Town in South Africa, where he landed on February 21....

For the first time in 40 years African skies resound to the roar of a flying boat. Alexander Frater boards a wartime Catalina in search of the romance and adventure of Imperial Airways' legendary route from Cairo to the Cape - down the White Nile to ...

We briefly visit a vast array of various flying objects....

Travel into the world of aviation and explore the dreams of flight with the Smithsonian as they step into the unknown....

A short film originally filmed and produced by the Photographic Division of the Avro Aircraft Company (Canada), probably in mid to late 1958....

It wasn't until 1993 that American women were officially allowed to fly combat aircraft. Learn about the struggles, the accomplishments, and contributions of women pilots of the past, present, and future....

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Fred Davis introduces us to Canadian Air Force operations in Zweibrucken, West Germany. Follow Green Section as they perform drills and explain what it takes to be a fighter pilot....

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