
The warplane has evolved over nearly a century to become what it is today, in 2004. This series is the story of how, through life-and-death necessity, invention, ingenuity and sheer hard work that warplane technology evolved. The Warplane series is not a history of every military plane but rather a look at the major stepping stones that advanced military aviation.
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Air Date: 2006-11-08
World War I ushered in the airplane's first military roles: aerial reconnaissance and artillery spotting. With aviati...
Air Date: 2006-11-08
World War II was where national air forces came of age, where individual planes coalesced into unstoppable squadrons,...
Air Date: 2006-11-15
On the heels of World War II, the jet airplane became a defining piece of mid-20th-century technology that would revo...
Air Date: 2006-11-18
The computer age brought avionics - systems to control planes that humans could never fly. These systems, combined wi...