Release Date

05 Jul, 2004

Total Episode/Season

4/1

Synopsis

Young pilots follow in the footsteps of the men who fought the Battle of Britain.

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Season 1

05 Jul, 2004

Hearing the testimony of the surviving pilots is compelling, but in Spitfire Ace, we also find out what it was really like to fly a Spitfire. Four young volunteers are put through their paces in a Tiger Moth, the plane used for preliminary training by the Battle of Britain pilots. The two strongest pilots then get the chance to fulfil every young boy's dream, to fly a Spitfire for themselves. Our twenty-first century Spitfire class is then narrowed down to just one pilot who goes on a nine-hour advanced operational training course.

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