Basic Info

First Air: January 19, 2005

Rating: ⭐ 9.0/10 (1 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 5

Last Episode

Name: Watch This Space

Season: 1, Episode: 5

Air Date: 2005-02-16

New records in airliner size, fuel economy, and passenger comfort with the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 (known as the 7E7 at the time). Also explores the wisdom of space airliner travel.

Flying Heavy Metal

2005 5 seasons 5 episodes ⭐ 9.0/10 1 votes

Overview

Flying Heavy Metal was a 5-part British television series produced by Ricochet and broadcast in the UK and Europe on the Discovery Channel and subsequently repeated on Discovery Wings in the UK. It was presented by commercial Boeing 757 pilot and Iron Maiden frontman, Bruce Dickinson. In the series, Bruce looked at, and often flew, a number of aircraft from across the history of commercial aviation. There were some quite surprising aerobatics done in rather large aircraft. Flying Heavy Metal is now repeated on the new channel from Discovery Networks UK called Discovery Turbo.