Warbird Workshop
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| Release Date | 2021-05-13 |
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| Runtime | 60 minutes |
| Genres | Documentary |
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| Release Date | 2021-05-13 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 60 minutes |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Stars | |
| Directors |
Documentary following the engineers and aviators who battle to keep the UK's most historic warplanes in the air.
Without any schematics to guide them, an elite team of expert engineers re-create a unique two-seater version of the legendary Hawker Hurricane fighter plane.
The epic battle to rebuild The Waterbird, the Royal Navy's first seaplane. Filmed over 12 years, the labour intensive project tests veteran engineer Gerry Cooper.
A Sea King rescue helicopter requires a new engine installing, as well as giant rotor blades and a 1970s computer system reviving, before it can return to the skies.
On a wartime bomber base in Lincolnshire, veteran engineer Gerry Cooper rebuilds two pre-war biplanes with glorious histories; the US Navy N3N and the Morane Saulnier 315.
