Warplane Workshop Season 2 Episode 1 - Spitfire to the Rescue

Airdate: 2024-Mar-07

Episode summary:

The second series of the show that follows the skilled engineers and brave pilots who are on a mission to return history-writing planes to the air. In hangars and workshops across the UK. A rare Spitfire that escorted American daylight bombers over occupied Europe in 1945 is prepared for a new mission. Its home, the Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire, faces financial difficulties - and engineers maintaining Britain's biggest fleet of flying vintage aircraft believe their iconic fighter can spearhead a recovery, if it can be returned to the sky in time.

About Warplane Workshop series:

From the iconic Spitfire to the light plane that became America's secret weapon in Vietnam, this series follows the struggle to save military ...Show more >