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The American SST

Documentary

TV-14

50

Dec 31, 2002

In the summer of 1963, President John F Kennedy called for America to build a supersonic airliner, an aircraft on the cutting edge of technology, flying faster and higher than any of its rivals.

Season 1, 3 episodes

season 1 (3 episodes)

America's First Jet Fighter,

The Lockheed L133 was an aircraft designed to break the Sound Barrier before Pearl Harbor. Had it flown it would have swept all Nazi opposition from the skies and changed the course of World War Two.

The Last Rocket Fighter,

Using secret Nazi technology, Britain developed an advanced rocket plane capable of climbing to the very edge of space to hunt high flying Soviet bombers.

The American SST,

In the summer of 1963, President John F Kennedy called for America to build a supersonic airliner, an aircraft on the cutting edge of technology, flying faster and higher than any of its rivals.

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Planes That Never Flew

Documentary

TV-14

1

50

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.

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