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Publisher
DD Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
They could have changed the world, combat and civil aircraft so far ahead of their time that the world would now be a very different place had they been built. Featuring four documentaries, each one focusing on a revolutionary aviation project which never escaped the drawing board. Each aircraft is recreated using advanced computer graphics, and its story is told using rare archive footage and interviews with test pilots, aviation historians and engineers....
Publisher
Shopware
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Burt Rutan and Mike Melville show how they construct airplanes using foam materials, fabric fiberglass and epoxy. They also demonstrate the advantages of composite materials over non-composite materials. Properties of composite materials for the construction of airplanes are given and precaution on the finishing process is touched on.
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Shows the building of Airbus A380. With the maiden flight scheduled to take place in less than 12 months, the team in Toulouse, France knows it must pick up the pace. 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.
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Shows the building of Airbus A380. The A380's wing is made in the UK, the tail fin in Spain and the fuselage in Germany. But how will each of these tremendous jigsaw pieces be transported to Toulouse, France for final assembly? The answer lies in the construction of a new ship, a series of barges and the world's biggest truck convoy. Plus, learn how Rolls Royce engineers designed, tested and built the mega engines capable of hauling and lifting this...
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Shows the building of Airbus A380. In Spring 2005, the Airbus A380 thundered down the runway and into the air for the very first time - launching itself into the record books as it went. Follow the final moments leading up to that historic flight with a look at how engineers were able to remedy last-minute glitches that threatened to ruin the plane's debut. Plus, meet the test pilots who are charged with manning the controls of the world's biggest...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Publisher
Columbia River Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This program profiles William Boeing and Allan and Malcolm Loughead, three of the men who created the modern aviation industry, the giant multinational corporations that they built, and the planes they designed -- Container.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. The film chronicles much of his...
11) The wind rises
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. The film chronicles much of his...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1116
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A downed airplane is a motley group of men's only protection from the relentless desert sun, in this psychologically charged disaster epic, one of the all-time great survival movies. James Stewart is the veteran pilot whose Benghazi-bound plane carrying passengers played by an unshaven ensemble of screen icons crash-lands in the remote Sahara. As tensions simmer among the survivors, they find themselves forced to trust a coldly logical engineer whose...
