Ever wondered how we went from flying small wooden machines, to supersonic jets taking off vertically in the space of less than 70 years?
Luke Tomes travels to Brooklands Museum in Surrey, one of Britain’s first operating aerodromes and home to one of the oldest and largest aircraft factories, to find out just how this evolution was possible.
Luke explores the pioneers that were able to break the boundaries of what was imaginable, the ingenious designs they developed and implemented and what role this site played in the remarkable era of aviation.
As well as seeing some twentieth-century defining aircraft along the way, he'll be given a private tour of one of the most spectacular planes to have ever graced the skies, Concorde, with former Chief pilot of British Airways' Concorde Fleet, Mike Bannister, before getting in the cockpit myself to see if he can cut it as a commercial pilot.
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