Engineers from the charity Navy Wings are fighting to return a rare example of the Royal Navy's last biplane to the sky. At the same time, 250 miles away, another team are determined to make the US Navy's last biplane fly again.

Eighty years after it crashed in flames during the Battle of Britain, a rare Spitfire is reconstructed from wreckage dug from the soil of the South Downs. The mission for modern engineers at the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar is to make P9372 fly again.

On a wartime bomber base in Lincolnshire, veteran engineer Gerry Cooper rebuilds two pre-war biplanes with glorious histories; the US Navy N3N and the Morane Saulnier 315.

A Sea King rescue helicopter requires a new engine installing, as well as giant rotor blades and a 1970s computer system reviving, before it can return to the skies.

The epic battle to rebuild The Waterbird, the Royal Navy's first seaplane. Filmed over 12 years, the labour intensive project tests veteran engineer Gerry Cooper.

Without any schematics to guide them, an elite team of expert engineers re-create a unique two-seater version of the legendary Hawker Hurricane fighter plane.