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Plane Pioneers

Episode 2: Plane Pioneers

July 18, 2021
43 min
8.0/10

Overview

In 1910, airplanes are a novelty, fragile wooden concoctions that float in the air--and crash. But that doesn't stop two young dreamers with a passion for this newfangled machine from imagining a very different future: one in which planes carry millions of passengers across the country, even across the seas. To realize that vision and create a lucrative new market, William Boeing and Donald Douglas take on automobile titan Henry Ford, infamous Dutch aviation giant Anthony Fokker--and each other.

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Part of

The Machines That Built America

Season 1 • Episode 2

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