Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

The Airplane

Season 1, Episode 2 of 6

Take to the sky with the dreamers whose work gave humans the ability to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci's "flying machines" to the modern commercial plane, without these inventions, we may have never left the ground.

Previously Aired

Day
Time
Channel
4/24/2019
10 p.m.
4/25/2019
3 a.m.
4/26/2019
3 p.m.
4/28/2019
9 a.m.
4/14/2020
11 a.m.
4/28/2020
1 p.m.
5/13/2020
11 a.m.
1/9/2022
4 p.m.
1/12/2022
3 p.m.
1/15/2023
1 p.m.
1/18/2023
2 p.m.
6/18/2023
1 p.m.
6/22/2023
1 p.m.
11/6/2023
1 p.m.
2/11/2024
2 a.m.
3/12/2024
11 p.m.
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