Wonderful World of Planes
How a Plane Flies
History of Flight
The Jet Age
The Big Jets
Concorde
Prop Aircraft
Boeing
Airbus
A380 Superjumbo
Embraer
Bombardier
Russian Planes
How a Plane is Built
How a Jet Works
ATC Explained
The Weather
The Crew
Week in the Life of a Plane
Your Flight
Freighters
Landing a Big Jet
The Next Generation
Air Force One
Executive Jets
Float Planes (Seaplanes)
Light Aircraft
Learning to Fly
Helicopters
Model Aircraft
Contact Us
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Second World War Planes
Stealth Planes
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The Wonderful World of Planes brings you the magic of flying – everything you ever wanted to know about flights and flying. The history of aviation, the major manufacturers, the great planes of past and present; what it feels like to fly; learning to fly. Getting a flight ready, loading the baggage, catering, refuelling; the life of the cabin crew and pilots; the low-down on Air Traffic Control; how the weather affects a flight; how much fuel a jet uses flying between Paris and New York, for example. Everything you ever wanted to know is here, and, in the near future, in our exhibitions throughout the world. Join the fun. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Planes.


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Many of the photographs on this website are by Peter D Smith. Many of the others are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Others were taken by Ian Britton and can be found on www.freefoto.com