Five programmes exploring the impact on western imagination of the creation of the aeroplane and recalling the wonder, terror and passion of the early pioneers who were seemingly cheating gravity, time and death with their newly realised dream.
1: The Fanatic of Flight: Wilbur Wright For onlookers, Wright was a poet of flight, a man inspired. However, the reality contrasted starkly and was distinctly unheroic. Producer Mark Burman