A doomed aircraft is left to fly until it runs out of fuel

The main innovation of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier was the angled-flight deck. This enabled multiple planes to land and take-off faster, and at the same time.

How Angled Flight Decks Revolutionized Aircraft Carrier Flight Decks (2:53)

It's May 1940, and high above the skies of Dunkirk, a squadron of Spitfires is desperately trying to hold off as many German Messerschmitt as they can. The lives of 300,000 British troops depend on it.

These British Fighter Planes Ruled The Skies Of Dunkirk (4:00)

On August 9, 1941, a RAF squadron embarked on an aerial raid over France, led by a hotshot pilot named Douglas Bader. He had already shot down 21 enemy fighters and was hungry for more.

This Legless Pilot Was A World War II Flying Ace (3:40)

The P-38 almost single-handedly drove back the Germans as they attempted to keep their North Africa armies supplied. In just one month, the Allies shot down over 400 German planes, while losing only 36.

Germany suffered big losses at the hands of the P-38 (3:24)

Henry Ford spent the majority of the war as a pacifist. By 1917, however, his state-of-the-art assembly line was churning out vital engine parts to feed the war machine.

How Henry Ford went from pacifist to major supplier of World War I (2:56)

The P-38 featured a revolutionary design that enabled it to travel higher and faster than any other American fighter plane during the 1930s. It did this with huge, in-line engines and a super turbo charger.

How the P-38 flew faster and higher than its rivals (2:57)

The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is primarily a giant cargo aircraft—and to load it, you need a giant opening. The solution: the nose cone of the aircraft, known as the visor, swings up to reveal a massive door.

The amazing way cargo is loaded onto a C-5 Galaxy (2:43)

The C-5 Galaxy is a true giant among USAF cargo planes—but its development was not without problems. Just four years after it made its debut, a serious design flaw threatened the future of the entire line.

The C-5 Galaxy had a catastrophic design flaw (3:30)

Climb into the guts of a hovercraft, as a team of salvage experts, led by a former NASA engineer, disassemble and cut through this iconic and unique vehicle.

Take a look inside one of the most unusual vehicles ever (2:43)