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Wings

(1988)

Seasons

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Great Planes (1988)

with 39 episodes premiered on April 6, 1988

Great Planes was the original subset of Wings episodes which focused on one particular aircraft type. The original Great Planes program was initially produced by Aviation Video International in Austr…

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Strange Planes (1990)

with 7 episodes premiered on August 29, 1990

A series of six episodes, entitled Strange Planes (and later released on VHS video), focused on several unusual aircraft types.

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Wings Over the Gulf (1991)

with 4 episodes premiered on October 2, 1991

Following the Gulf War of 1991, Discovery produced a new short-run program, Wings Over the Gulf, profiling the air war over Iraq before and during Operation Desert Storm, and select aircraft types us…

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Wings of the Luftwaffe (1992)

with 13 episodes premiered on April 8, 1992

Wings of the Luftwaffe was a 1992 separately-branded program that focused on Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. It was narrated by Helmut Bakaitis.

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Wings of the Red Star (1993)

with 13 episodes premiered on February 4, 1993

Wings of the Red Star was a separately-branded program that focused on Soviet Air Force aircraft from World War II to the modern era. It was narrated by actor Sir Peter Ustinov.

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SeaWings (1994)

with 11 episodes premiered on September 1, 1994

SeaWings, narrated by Edward Easton, was a separately-branded program that focused on United States (and some foreign) naval aircraft from World War II to the present day.

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Wings II (1995)

with 23 episodes premiered on May 5, 1995

Starting in the mid 1990s, newer Wings episodes, sometimes referred to as Wings II, would focus on the history or operations of a particular foreign air force, such as the Israeli Air Force, a foreig…

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Wings Over Vietnam: The Missions (2002)

with 8 episodes premiered on October 20, 2002

In 2002, this eight-episode program was aired, hosted by David Scott. During the course of the Southeast Asian war, the United States developed many new types of air tactics that had never previousl…

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Flying Boats (1996)

with 6 episodes premiered on January 1, 1996

First seeing service in the First World War, flying boats quickly adapted to peacetime when they became the world's first airliners. When the Second World War broke out, flying boats swiftly reverted…