The Age of Aerospace

The premiere episode reveals how Bill Boeing, Donald Douglas, James McDonnell and their contemporaries took the invention of the airplane and forged an industry, delivering advancements in communication, transportation, and warfare.

Details the role American industry and planes--including the B-29 Superfortress, North American P-51 Mustang and the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress--played in the Allied victory over Germany and Japan.

Explores three planes that launched the jet age: the B-47 bomber, the Boeing 707 and the 747 Jumbo Jet, the world’s first jumbo jet that reshaped global air travel. These three planes were made possible by secrets discovered in a German forest at the close of WWII.

Tells the story of Project Apollo, which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon, and humankind’s first journey to the Moon on Apollo 8. Other topics include humanity’s future in space.

Reveals the technology, resources, and risk required to build commercial aircraft in the modern world through the story of the most recent revolution in jet design, the 787 Dreamliner.