A Century of Flight: 100 Years of Aviation

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A Century of Flight: 100 Years of Aviation title screen.

Documentary Series (2004)

Starring:
Don Pay (Narrator)

(Synopsis needed)

Disc Two

Boeing F4B

Shot used too in The War, (Ep. One A Necessary War) .
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

Boeing B-17C Flying Fortress

Mitsubishi G3M

Martin B-10

With probably a Douglas SBD Dauntless on the left.

Various Aircraft

SBD et B-10 at left with probably a Douglas O-46 at right (high wing aircraft).

Douglas SBD Dauntlesses and a Douglas C-47 Skytrain.

Lockheed Hudson

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Waco CG-4A

Douglas DC-3

Douglas DC-3 of PAA-Pan American Airways System.

Heinkel He 111 H

Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Junkers Ju 88

Junker Ju 87 Stuka

North American B-25C/D Mitchell

North American B-25B Mitchell

Embarked on the USS Hornet (CV-8) for the Doolittle Raid.

Probably The Avenger of Lt. Edgar E. McElroy, s/n 40-2247.

North American B-25B Mitchell s/n 40-2247 ?

North American B-25J Mitchell

North American B-25J of 405th BS "Green Dragon", 38th BG, 5th AF, USAAF.

North American B-25B Mitchell

Serial # 40-2344.

North American B-25 Mitchell

Unidentified Aircraft

The next one was a twin engine twin tails medium size : a B-25 ?

Probably a Nakajima Ki-44 already shown in Flying Leathernecks.

Consolidated PBY Catalina

Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress

Curtiss SOC Seagull

Mitsubishi G4M

Martin B-26 Maraunder

Mitsubishi A6M Zero

Aichi D3A

Allied reporting name Val.

Unidentified Aircraft

Vought SB2U Vindicator

Grumman F4F Wildcat

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

Consolidated PB4Y Liberator

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Vickers Wellington

Messerschmitt Bf 109 F or G

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

Consolidated B-24 Liberator

North American B-25C Mitchell

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Lockheed P-38 Lightning

Bell P-39 Airacobra

Savoia Marchetti SM.82

Douglas Boston & Douglas XB-19

In the background, the single prototype of the Douglas XB-19. The british roundel leds to Douglas Boston.

Martin B-26B Marauder

Please note the four cannon fairings around the bottom nose section.

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Messerschmitt Bf 109 G

Messerschmitt Bf 109 C

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E

Short S.25 Sunderland

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Serial # 42-92847 That’s All—Brother. Later converted into a Basler BT-67.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain & Waco CG-4A

Martin B-26 Marauder

Consolidated B-24 Liberator

Shot taken under a Douglas C-47 (with another one in the distance, at left).

Lockheed P-38 Lightning

North American P-51 Mustang

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

Unidentified Aircraft

North American B-25 Mitchell

Junkers Ju 86

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Peenemünde Aggregat 4 (A 4)

Test rockets; these didn't receive the V-2 name until they began to be launched against London in 1944.

Fieseler Fi 103

Messerschmitt Bf 110

Disc Three

Peenemünde Aggregat 4 (A 4)

Test rockets; these didn't receive the V-2 name until they began to be launched against London in 1944.

Fieseler Fi 103 R-3 "Reichenberg-Gerät"

Douglas MIM-3 Nike Ajax

Bell X-1-1

Serial #46-062 Glamorous Glennis.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Bell X-1-2

Serial #46-063.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Bell X-1

Bell X-2

Boeing B-29-96-BW Superfortress

s/n 45-21800, a Boeing B-29-96-BW Superfortress (usually named EB-29) used for X-1 trials as mothership until 2 July 1959 (then send to MASDC).
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star

Disc Four

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See also

• A Century of Flight: 100 Years of Aviation at IMDb