Great Planes looks into the stories behind the most influential, innovative and intriguing machines that ever took flight.

Born of the need for a four-engine propeller bomber, the Constellation soon became the backbone of long range civil aviation. The Lockheed Constellation is celebrated today as one of the finest flying machine ever built. Design of the Constellation began just before World War Two in 1939, when Pan American Airways and Transcontinental & Western Air (later TWA) issued a design requirement for a 40-passenger airliner for their domestic routes. Production of the resulting L-49 by Lockheed began, but was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. The US Army Air Corps commandeered at least 22 of the aircraft off the assembly line, designated them C-69s, and used them as transports. After the war, when civil production resumed under several designations, the military ordered a new, longer-range version called the C-121. In the years that followed, no fewer than 20 variants were developed for military use. The last of the "Connies" was the L-1649A Starliner, with a completely new wing and greater fuel capacity and range. As a civilian aircraft, Constellation has been the first airliner able to cross the Atlantic Ocean non stop. It also has had a respectable military career, thanks to its brilliant characteristics which allowed it to fulfill missions of electronic warfare and AWACS. Production of all Constellations ended in the late 1950s, but the type lived on for decades as an airliner and freighter in many smaller countries. The Constellation contributed to its national defense in so many ways that it is difficult to fully account the impact it had. The few remaining airworthy examples are increasingly appreciated for their looks, performance and versatility.

Tony journeys into Sri Lankan cuisine influenced by the Portuguese, Dutch, British, Indian, Arab, Malay and Moor traders. From Colombo, a city perched on the coast, Tony also visits a culinary school built after the tsunami hit the region in 2004.

Part 1: Surrounded by Spies
As whaling season begins in the Antarctic, the Sea Shepherds embark on another dangerous campaign. With three vessels all launching from a different port, Captain Paul Watson now faces the daunting task of being the admiral of a fleet.

Hubble is a global superstar and a household name. Now it faces the most dramatic moment in its life, the final visit for repairs and fond farewells from astronauts.
The Final Chapter
NASA astronauts train vigorously at their neutral buoyancy lab in preparation for SM4, a massive final mission to revive the Hubble teleoscope. Since the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003, NASA has implemented multiple safety precautions in prepration of the SM4 mission to revive the Hubble telescope. Part of the mission will install the cosmic origins spectrograph, a tool to examine the structure of the universe. Costar, which corrected the images must be removed.

Prehistoric takes you back in time to see what stood, lived, fought and died in your backyard hundreds, thousands, even millions of years ago
Washington DC
The corridors of power run through its veins, a land of constant conflict and battles for supremacy. All of its history combines to tell the tale of why D.C. looks the way it does, and why it was built where it is. When the city was founded, was it really on a swamp? Before it was the nation's capital city, Washington D.C. was once a beach town whose waters were teeming with the largest shark the world has ever known. Dry-land was patrolled by a predator that looked like a dog, but was bigger than a grizzly. Tens of millions of years earlier it endured an asteroid impact that wiped out all life. Further back in time it hosted a ferocious meat-eating dinosaur that hunted building-sized plant-eaters ten times its own size, while directly over what is today the Washington Monument, flying reptiles with 30-foot wingspans terrorized the skies.

Hubble: A Look into the Universe
Hubble is a global superstar and a household name. Now it faces the most dramatic moment in its life, the final visit for repairs and fond farewells from astronauts. The dangerous massive mission to revive the greatest science tool today is under way and once again Hubble and all the brilliant scientists and astronauts responsible for her, will make history. With unprecedented access to NASA’s training facilities, it follows a team of world-class astronauts through training, into space, and back to Earth. The historic mission will visit the Hubble Space Telescope one last time, upgrading its ability to peer even more deeply into the mysteries of the Universe for years to come. So come and join astronauts Mike Massimino, John Grunsfeld and team for a journey of a lifetime.
Mission Critical : Hubble
Follows NASA astronauts as they attempt the most dangerous shuttle mission in history. The seven strong crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched with a goal of repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope - mankind’s greatest scientific instrument. However, it was no ordinary spaceflight. They went further and higher than any mission since the moon landings and their work was some of the most technically ambitious ever performed in space. In this fascinating programme, take an all-access ride along with NASA’s finest.

Prehistoric takes you back in time to see what stood, lived, fought and died in your backyard hundreds, thousands, even millions of years ago. Premiering with the lost worlds of New York City, the focus of this series will be the amazing extinct creatures that once called our cities home
It's the ultimate city, packed with 8 million people and overgrown with skyscrapers. But before this land of glass steel and concrete sprouted, New York City was home to alien worlds and strange creatures stretching back over many millennia. Eight-ton elephant-like mastodons walked down what is today 5th Avenue, and a sea turtle bigger than a compact car swam directly over Midtown Manhattan. The Big Apple still bears the scars of a time when it was obliterated by a titanic glacier, and it sits on the site of a 200-million year old volcanic catastrophe. This is also where some of the world's first dinosaurs walked. And although it enjoys views of the Atlantic Ocean today, New York City was once in the middle of a vast desert continent. No matter the era, ii's been the center of the action throughout the history of our planet.

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Prehistoric takes you back in time to see what stood, lived, fought and died in your backyard hundreds, thousands, even millions of years ago. Premiering with the lost worlds of New York City, the focus of this series will be the amazing extinct creatures that once called our cities home. While many of us know that ferocious dinosaurs and large mammals once roamed America, very few realize that these creatures stalked the exact sites where we've built our major cities and most famous landmarks. We are literally walking in the footsteps of these extinct animals every day, without even realizing it.
Dallas
Reverse the clock over millions of years and we'll uncover the secrets of Dallas, Texas. From the ancestors of the famous Longhorn cattle that brought us the cowboys, to the mammoths, large cats and overgrown armadillos of the Ice Age, everything about Dallas was always BIG. Dive in to Ocean Dallas and swim with the Great White Sharks of the Cretaceous Period and the mosasaurs that battled them for dominance--right where downtown Dallas stands today. Then head west to Fort Worth and the home of the largest dinosaur to walk the earth in North America: Paluxysaurus -- the State Dinosaur of Texas. And if you think Texas is oil country, think again. At 325 million years old, it's the biggest natural gas field in North America -- and it's right beneath the city of Dallas.

Discovery Channel - The Invisible Machines (2007) DSR XViD-G4L
Language: English
00:46:02 | 512x384 | XviD - 912Kbps | 29.970fps | MP3 - 134Kbps | 349MB
Genre: Documentary

Discovery Channel - Wings: Bell UH-1 Huey (2000) TVRip
Language: English
00:48:04 | 720x576 | DivX - 1200Kbps | 25.000fps | MP3 - 128Kbps | 461MB
Genre: Documentary

Discovery Channel - Future Wings: Eyes in the Sky
English | 00:51:02 | 512x384 | XviD | 23.976fps 851kbps | Mp3 94kbps 32.0khz | 349MB
Genre: Documentary