Name: Supersonic
Uploaded: 2009
Description: When the British discover Nazis are experimenting with a supersonic rocket-powered aircraft, their engineers take up the same challenge.

When the British discover Nazis are experimenting with a supersonic rocket-powered aircraft, their engineers take up the same challenge.

Explore the wartime push to build a 1,000 mile per hour aircraft as British engineers respond to reports of a Nazi supersonic threat. Through jet breakthroughs, radical design choices, and the fate of the Miles M.52, this series reveals how the future of aerial warfare was forged. Sign up to see the technical risks, rivalries, and turning points unfold.

Britain's secret race to shatter the sound barrier takes shape.

When the British discover that Nazis are experimenting with an advanced supersonic rocket-powered aircraft, they commission engineers to take up the same challenge.

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Supersonic: Part 1

During WWII, the fastest British jets could reach 500 mph. With the sound barrier at 720 mph, the British leap to create a supersonic jet is an unprecedented challenge.