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The Deadliest Spitfire: Skilled engineers and pilots return historic warplanes to the air. Can they get the World War II legend, the Spitfire, to fly once more? (S1 Ep1/6)

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Brand new series - The Last Biplanes: Engineers from the charity Navy Wings are fighting to return a rare example of the Royal Navy's last biplane to the sky. (S2 Ep6/6)
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Brand new series - The Reborn Spitfire: Eighty years after it crashed in the Battle of Britain, a rare Spitfire is reconstructed from wreckage dug from the soil of the South Downs. (S2 Ep5)
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Brand new series - Return of the Flying Legends: Martin Espin and his team race against the clock to prepare a squadron of Spitfires for a huge air display. (S2 Ep4/6)
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Brand new series - The Missing Spitfire: When a TE517 is discovered languishing in a playground, engineers at Biggin Hill in Kent scramble to return the classic kite to the air. (S2 Ep3/6)
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Brand new series - Flight of the Tempest: Engineer and pilot Richard fight to complete a 40-year project to return the RAF's fastest WWII fighter, the Hawker Tempest, to the sky. (S2 Ep2/6)
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Brand new series - Spitfire to the Rescue: Engineers and pilots return historical planes to the air. A rare WWII Spitfire that escorted American bombers prepares for a new mission. (S2 Ep1)
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Brand new series - MI6's Spy in the Sky: A 1930s Lockheed airliner used by MI6 to spy on pre-war Germany is restored to flight by engineer Richard Grace and his team. (Ep6/6)
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Brand new series - Churchill's First Seaplane: A team recreates the first flight of Britain's first seaplane - the Waterbird. But getting 1911 technology airbourne proves tough. (Ep5/6)
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Brand new series - The Plane from Spain: Intrepid pilot Taff Smith rescues a Bucker Jungmeister, a relic of General Franco's fascist air force which brought civil war to Spain. (Ep4/6)
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Brand new series - Holland's Forgotten Few: Restorers recreate the legendary Fokker DXXI - a Dutch plane that took on Hitler's Luftwaffe and shot down hundreds of enemy aircraft. (Ep3/6)
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Brand new series - Vietnam Vet: Pilot Shona Bowman is determined to get her battered Cessna Bird Dog - a Vietnam War mainstay that she bought for £10,000 - back in the sky. (Ep2/6)
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Brand new series - The Deadliest Spitfire: Skilled engineers and pilots return historic warplanes to the air. Can they get the World War II legend, the Spitfire, to fly once more? (Ep1/6)
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