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![Balloon Race Around the World](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2313_threemen.jpg) | Balloon Race Around the World Delve into the history and science of ballooning, and follow some of the attempts in the '90s to be the first to circumnavigate the globe. |
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![Battle of the X-Planes](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3004_xplanes.jpg) | Battle of the X-Planes Two aviation giants, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, compete to build the next-generation fighter jet. |
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![Crash of Flight 111](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3105_aircrash.jpg) | Crash of Flight 111 One of the most exhaustive investigations in aviation history reveals telling clues to the cause of a disaster off Nova Scotia. |
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![Daring Flight, A](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3207_bleriot.jpg) | Daring Flight, A In 1909, Louis Blériot undertakes a heroic first-ever flight across the English Channel. |
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![Deadliest Plane Crash, The](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3315_planecrash.jpg) | Deadliest Plane Crash, The NOVA investigates the worst aviation accident of all time. |
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![Escape!](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2604_escafire.jpg) | Escape! Engineers learn from past disasters to make fires and car, plane, and ship accidents increasingly survivable. |
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![Faster than Sound](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2412_barrier.jpg) | Faster than Sound Top test pilots describe the dangers, mysteries, and thrill of being the first to fly at supersonic speed. |
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![Four-Winged Dinosaur, The](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3505_microrap.jpg) | Four-Winged Dinosaur, The Surprising fossils from northeastern China spur a debate over how birds evolved. |
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![Last Flight of Bomber 31](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3002_bomber.jpg) | Last Flight of Bomber 31 Forensic scientists set out to discover what happened to seven American airmen whose plane crashed in Kamchatka during World War II. |
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![Missing in MiG Alley](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3418_warplane.jpg) | Missing in MiG Alley What happened to American pilots shot down over Korea half a century ago? |
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![Nazi Prison Escape](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2803_nazipris.jpg) | Nazi Prison Escape From 1940 to 1945, Allied prisoners of war engineered spectacular escapes from Colditz Castle, the Nazis' most impregnable prison. |
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![Spies That Fly](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3001_spiesfly.jpg) | Spies That Fly A new generation of pilotless planes fly, spy, and bomb in places too risky for human pilots. |
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![Supersonic Dream](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3203_concorde.jpg) | Supersonic Dream Engineers, pilots, and others who knew Concorde tell its remarkable story. |
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![Supersonic Spies](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2503_superson.jpg) | Supersonic Spies The race to build the world's first supersonic passenger airliner leads to a massive Cold War espionage effort. |
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![Top Gun Over Moscow](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2315_topgun.jpg) | Top Gun Over Moscow Flights in Russia's powerful fighter jets are for sale to foreign travelers. So is the Russian Air Force still in the game? |
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![Vanished!](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2802_vanished.jpg) | Vanished! The mysterious 1947 disappearance of an airplane high in the Andes en route from Argentina to Chile is finally resolved. |
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![Who Killed the Red Baron?](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3011_redbaron.jpg) | Who Killed the Red Baron? Forensic experts investigate the most famous aviation mystery of World War I. |
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![Wings of Madness](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3316_santos.jpg) | Wings of Madness The flamboyant rise and tragic death of pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont. |
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![Wright Brothers' Flying Machine](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3015_wright.jpg) | Wright Brothers' Flying Machine Relive the engineering challenges that two obscure bicycle makers overcame to become first in flight. |
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