Secret Superpower Aircraft Bombers

This is the untold story of the cold war race to build the perfect long range bomber Using computer graphics and rare archive footage we show the US and Soviet race to construct a nuclear powered bomber that can fly for years at a time Our story opens with one of many Soviet cold war era Hoaxes the airshow flyover of a massive squadron of Bison bombers which in reality was only 18 planes flying in tight circles We then meet a forgotten Soviet aerospace hero an Italian by birth who designed the worlds first supersonic flying boat The US meanwhile in pursuit of a long range bomber with extended flight capability turns to nuclear power converting a special Convair B36 which we show in flight We then visit one of Britains finest aircraft designs the long range TSR2 bomber the engines of which were eventually incorporated into Concorde We end with the most successful and capable long range bomber of the cold war the B2 Stealth