Episodes
1. The Last Rocket Fighter
April 4, 2003
47 min
The British-designed Saunders-Roe SR177, an advanced rocket plane that, though capable of climbing to the very edge of space, fell victim to sabotage by a rival aircraft company.
2. The American SST
April 11, 2003
47 min
A documentary on the SST, America's answer to Concorde in the competition between Europe and the United States to build a supersonic airliner.
3. America's First Jet Fighter
April 18, 2003
47 min
The history of 1950s icon the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, designed by engineer Clarence `Kelly' Johnson, who had previously failed in an attempt to create a supersonic fighter.