Planes That Never Flew

• 1. The Last Rocket Fighter

  47m

  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

  47m

  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

  47m

  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.

• 4. The Atomic Bomber

  47m

  The story behind plans for an atomic bomber that failed to progress from the drawing board.

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