A British documentary series that has just premiered on Netflix. Warbird restorers are filmed while they painstakingly reproduce aircraft from WW2 and a Fokker DR1. I really liked the first three episodes I’ve seen so far, a P51, a Hurricane, and the Fokker are rebuilt. It’s definitely airplane porn!
Added to my list. I like “Ultimate Restorations” as well.
Brian
My dream is to have a hangar full of WWI fighters: a SPAD, a Camel, a Nieuport, and a DRI. :o
Personally, I’d choose an S.E.5, just because the others get all of the glory.
And for fun and good looks I’d throw in an Albatros (with natural wood fuselage showing) and a Sopwith Triplane. The San Diego Aerospace Museum had a gorgeous Sopwith Tripe that was tragically consumed in the arson fire of 1978. It was my favorite airplane in there, and that’s saying something.
Now I’m off to look up where I can watch the OP’s mentioned series. Mmm, airplane porn.
ETA: It just got added to Netflix yesterday!!
Definitely have to look for that. Thanks for the tip!
How about a DR1, a Sopwith Pup, a Rumpler C.V., and SPAD 13, aviation delights at[URL="Golden Age Air Museum - Early Days Of Aviation
Back in the '80s, I was boarding a Trailways bus in Madison, WI. Their station was (maybe still is; I don’t know) located at the intersection of Highway 151 and the road to the airport.
I heard a plane taking off in the distance behind me and didn’t think much about it, until I realized I’d never heard anything like it before.
I turned around, and there was an F4U rising above the trees and headed in our direction. It was LOUD and sounded like a few thousand chain saws on steroids running at full throttle. I’ll never forget the experience!
I think I’ve read about this place in one of Stephen Coonts’ books. Maybe I’ll make it there one day before I croak.
A few years ago, my daughter sent me some photos she’d taken at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa. Another place I have to visit soon…
The Australian War Memorial has one of two known Albatross D.Va survivors fully restored and on display Albatros D.Va scout aircraft | Australian War Memorial
Your second choice shows that you have impeccable taste, Johnny. Which is a stealth-compliment that I, too, have good taste. Man, I’d take a Hurricane over a Spitfire any day of the week.
I was at WJF, where Bill Barnes had a Corsair. When it took off, the ground rumbled.
Nothing quite like the full bodied roar of a fig radial, different as they are from the distinctive Merlin growl. When I get my time machine built I’m headed out to East Anglia to listen to a few hundred radial engines take off overhead. Maybe afterwards go shoot Hitler or see the Last Supper, but first thing first.
I think the Spitfire is the most beautiful airplane every built. But I’d still take the Hurricane first. It doesn’t seem to get as much credit as it deserves for its role in the Battle of Britain. And it’s also more interesting from a design standpoint, being built in the transition period between fabric-covered biplanes (specifically, the Hawker Fury) and monocoque designs like the Spitfire. The early ones still had fabric-covered wings.
And as a pilot, I like the wider landing gear. 
I was Googling for news about a second season. Bad news, on October 2, 2016, Maurice Hammond, one of the presenters of the show, crashed the P-51 shown in the first episode. Hammond was seriously injured and his passenger died. Hammond is recovering, but understandingly distraught over losing the life of his passenger.
What was the sad series from a few years back, where they found an intact plane on a glacier and fixed up, intending to fly it off, but when they went to start it, it burned down? Now *that *was depressing.
That was the Kee Bird (‘Kee-rist, it’s cold!’) That was a hard show to watch, since I knew how it ended. 