Season 3 Episode
- Season 3 Whirling Wings - Evolution of the Rotorhead
- Season 3 Water Birds - Floatplanes and Flying Boats
- Season 3 Jump to the Sky - Jet VTOL
- Season 3 Tail First Flying - the Canard
- Season 3 First Around The World
- Season 3 Flying Blind
- Season 3 Flying Wings
- Season 3 Flight Control - Wing Warping to Fly-by-Wire
- Season 3 Flash Of Glory - Aerial Combat Enters The Jet Age
- Season 3 Flying the Mail
- Season 3 Backyard Fliers - An Airplane In Every Garage
- Season 3 First In Speed: Air Racing
- Season 3 Propellers - Wings With A Twist
First Flights with Neil Armstrong - Season 3 Episode 8 Flight Control - Wing Warping to Fly-by-Wire
0.00 48 minutes Two years after the first manned flight, the Wrights mastered control sufficiently to fly the first circle – a major aviation advance that went almost unnoticed. By World War II, the first hydraulically boosted controls were invented, enabling pilots to fly aircraft weighing more than 100,000 pounds without the muscles of a co pilot. Once digital signals succeeded in maneuvering spacecraft, computerized fly-by-wire technology for aircraft was not far behind.
