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The DVD also looks at the aircraft's role post the tragic accident in Paris in the Summer of 2000. As well as reporting on the immediate aftermath of the crash there is also footage of the last domestic charter flights to such far-flung and diverse destinations as Fiji, Bangkok, Nairobi, Aqaba and Venice.
Following the Paris tragedy, the video takes you behind the scenes with BA and Air France to see the modifications taking place in a bid to get Concorde back into the air again. Following re-certificat

The Airbus A380 is scheduled for its maiden flight in less than 12 months, and the team in Toulouse, France knows the entire world will be watching. While they slowly assemble the massive fuselage sections and giant wings, production snafus threaten to ground the entire project = and the pressure faced by the team begins to show.As the pieces are joined together like a giant jigsaw puzzle, dramatic tests are carried out on the Rolls Royce engines that will power the A390 and the landing gear that must support its enormous weight. Delays creep in, but the day for revealing the plant to the world is now set. The press is waiting. Heads of state, major airlines VIP?s are all waiting with bated breath. But will the A380 be ready?

Great Planes looks into the stories behind the most influential, innovative and intriguing machines that ever took flight.

Born of the need for a four-engine propeller bomber, the Constellation soon became the backbone of long range civil aviation. The Lockheed Constellation is celebrated today as one of the finest flying machine ever built. Design of the Constellation began just before World War Two in 1939, when Pan American Airways and Transcontinental & Western Air (later TWA) issued a design requirement for a 40-passenger airliner for their domestic routes. Production of the resulting L-49 by Lockheed began, but was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. The US Army Air Corps commandeered at least 22 of the aircraft off the assembly line, designated them C-69s, and used them as transports. After the war, when civil production resumed under several designations, the military ordered a new, longer-range version called the C-121. In the years that followed, no fewer than 20 variants were developed for military use. The last of the "Connies" was the L-1649A Starliner, with a completely new wing and greater fuel capacity and range. As a civilian aircraft, Constellation has been the first airliner able to cross the Atlantic Ocean non stop. It also has had a respectable military career, thanks to its brilliant characteristics which allowed it to fulfill missions of electronic warfare and AWACS. Production of all Constellations ended in the late 1950s, but the type lived on for decades as an airliner and freighter in many smaller countries. The Constellation contributed to its national defense in so many ways that it is difficult to fully account the impact it had. The few remaining airworthy examples are increasingly appreciated for their looks, performance and versatility.

The end of December 1968 was foul. Low clouds stood over the testing aerodrome of Zhukovsky. Phone calls kept coming from the Ministry: «The aircraft must take off before the New Year!» It was no accident. It was not just another new aircraft. It was supposed to be the debut of the supersonic passenger airliner TU-144… The Anglo-French “Concord” was getting ready for its first flight at the same time… It was important to overrun competitors. Prestige of the Soviet state was at stake. On December 31, the last day of the year, TU-144 took off… It was that aircraft, which entered the history as the first in the world supersonic passenger airliner. Civil aviation was in transition to a new quality level…
Bonus material: Тu-104А, Тu-110, Аn-10, Il-18V, Тu-114, Тu-116, Аn-24, Тu-124, Тu-134, Il-62, Yak-40, Аn-14А, Be-30, L-410, Аn-28, Тu-154, Тu-144, Il-86, Yak-42, Il-96-300, Тu-204-100, Il-114, Тu-334, Аn-140, Аn-148, Superjet (SSJ-100).

Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet.Following the attempt to bomb an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, this landmark series looks at the angry young men of Generation Jihad who have turned their backs on the country where they were born.

The level of tension in world politics is red hot. An American airliner is shot down in eastern Europe by a U.S. missile killing all its crew. The U.S. government. denies any liability and sends agent Michael Thorton to investigate what happened ...

The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota is a military transport aircraft that was developed from the Douglas DC-3 airliner. It was used extensively by the Allies during World War II and remained in front line operations through the 1950s with a few remaining in operation to this day.

Nicknamed the Superjumbo, the Airbus A380 passenger airliner is the largest in history. It’s packed with cutting-edge technology but owes its very existence to the most unlikely connections“ a Mongolian bow and a 19th century rocket.

A lie, a long ago affair, a dark desire everyone has secrets they take to the grave. No one knew that better than FBI special agent Smoky Barrett. But what secret was a very private young woman keeping that led to her very public murder? And what kind of killer was so driven and so brazenly daring that hed take her life on a commercial airliner thirty thousand feet in midair, a killer so accomplished that hed leave only a small souvenir behind?