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Episode 2 Preview | The Airplane

Season 1 Episode 2 | 30s

Take to the sky with the dreamers whose work gave humans the ability to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci’s “flying machines” to the modern commercial plane, without these inventions, we may have never left the ground.

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