On a bleak December day in 1903, among the dunes at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, a fragile bi-plane took off and flew for just 12 seconds, skimming 120 feet across the sands. Just sixty years later the world's first supersonic jetliner thundered into the air at Toulouse in France. This programme tells the extraordinary story of flying history from Kitty Hawk to Concorde.

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