The best show ever(WINGS)!

[TonyM]

The WINGS shows were broadcast for several years on the Discovery WINGS CHANNEL. I really enjoyed this aviation exclusive channel. I recently have looked as some old VHS tapes of the programming on the DISCOVERY WINGS CHANNEL and I really miss this channel. It was a mistake to change the WINGS CHANNEL to what is now the Military Channel. Now all we get is a continuous loop of BUDS 234, Gulf War I and Parris Island. I agree with the guy who posted that cable TV is not what it used to be. The History Channel has been dumbed down for the short attention span crowd. These channels produce some real good aviation programming every now and then, but it seems that the shows are aired a couple times and then they disappear from the rotation--we are then subjected to whole weekends of Modern Marvels. TonyM.

[6trn4brn]

Don't forget "Ice Road Truckers" Tony Now that is some serious entertainment...not sure what in the Hellen it has to do with History...

(disclaimer...not bashing truck drivers at all...my Dad did OTR for more than 40 years. He does not like the show either )

[Ztex]

Oh...I misunderstood....wrong show.

[mustangdriver]

Also a good show.

[Jesse C.]

I found the DVD on the XB-70 on ebay and a co-worker of mine bought it due to the fact his Dad and the family where stationed at Edwards during the Valkyries heyday. He still remembers the noise that thing made and yes, I am jealous!

The DVD came all the way from Australia!

Maybe we should start a petition to bring back Wings, the one with planes not the cast of cookie characters, back to the airwaves and dump all these half arsed plane shows.

[hurk130]

I went to high school with Crystal Benard. She didn't know crap about the Luftwaffe!

Seriously, I did go to high school with her.

[Obergrafeter]

I would like to teach her crap about the Luftwaffe!

[Jiggersfromsphilly]

I went to high school with Crystal Benard. She didn't know crap about the Luftwaffe!

Seriously, I did go to high school with her.

Its been a while since she was on Wings , is she still as hot"?

[Nathan]

So what was everyones favorite WINGS epesiode?

Mine:

YB-49 and the XB-70 show. I was young so I cant remember all the shows I saw but those two stuck out. I think I got a VHS tape with part of the YB=49 show. But I might have recorded over it.

I dont think they made any DVD sets of these. I do have a VHS WINGS set but it must be one ofthe newer version. Different opening creates, different music, different narrator.

[famvburg]

ISTR the episode titled "A-10", was actually about the Harrier. Talk about inaccuracies.

The only thing that made me chuckle from "Wings" was a passage in the A-26 Invader episode.

How about the "Tarzan" bomb in the B-29 episode? When the producer Colin Grubb asked me what I thought was the worst error in the program (there's always more than one!) I told him it was using "Tarzan" instead of "Tarzon". He was suitably repentant.

That was the original version, narrated by John Honey. I'll be damned if the same error wasn't repeated by the American narrator in the re-dubbed version!

Colin was the creative force behind those early "Great Planes" episodes, including the music. For that reason I took him to New Guinea when we filmed Black Jack's Last Mission.

Since then he's produced two of the most popular network shows broadcast here: Gardening Australia and Collectors, which I'll be watching later tonight.

[Jiggersfromsphilly]

I have about a dozen that I taped off of Discovery Channel way back when. B-25 , B17, B-29 and I can'tr remember the rest. They are buried away in a tub somewhere in the attic.

[tom d. friedman]

i can hear walter cronkite narrating in my head right now!!!

i'm showing my age & senility........ sorry, i was thinking of the show "airpower" narrated by cronkite in the 50's. all film footage was from the national archives. it was a great show, & with walter's monotone voice it was even better.