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Aviation

Aircraft and the people who built them.

Aviation documentaries about the aircraft America designed, built and flew, told the same way as every Steel & Speed episode. One machine, one engineering problem, and the decisions that solved it.

No aviation episodes are live yet. When they arrive, each will get its own page here with a timeline, key numbers, diagrams drawn in the same style as the video, chapters and a numbered list of sources. Every fact sourced, nothing guessed.

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