I’m miss documentaries like this. Quality. Great tunes too.

I know a lot of people find Jeremy obnoxious but I think he is quality, miss him on top gear.

I SWEAR you could give Clarkson a show about shite and he would make it entertaining and a joy to listen to. Mans A Legend. The entire Trio will never be matched again.

55:06 and onward, The best summary of aviation on earth along with the music and shots of the jets. Almost cried while watching it. As well as 52:04.

The bit about no longer being allowed forward into the flight deck of an Aircraft is such a great shame. I remember when I was 7 or 8 (I'm now 37) on my way to Majorca I was ecstatic about being allowed in the cockpit, meeting the pilots and seeing how things worked. It really did inspire a life long passion for aviation. That particular flight aboard a Palmair BAe 146 really was the moment I fell in love with aviation. In fact, I couldn't wait for the 2 week holiday to be over so I could have another tour of the cockpit!

Extremely entertaining and educational. Jeremy is such a good host. Thanks for sharing this 😎👍🚀

The way Clarkson pronounces Heinkel and it's designer made my day xD

World wide panic with tsars virus......epidemic. 2020: hold my proverbial beer

The best presenter ever.he is a legend,a living legend!

The Jeremy Clarkson envy is palpable here - again. He is a very, very successful gentleman that happens to present; perhaps the most popular TV program on the air today. Knock him all you want - he is living the dream and if that upsets you - who gives a shit.

Of course when you leave America and go back into the free world... That statement makes me so incredibly sad. Not because it's not true, it totally is, but at one point, America would have been considered the free world. Now it's cops with M4s and getting a good grope to get on a plane.

what was that Jeremy? if ebola found its way onto a plane ......

Jeremy makes history fun.

" Hi, umm I'm flying to here" - LOL! classic Clarkson.

7 hours to NY in a 747 1st class...you poor thing!! I can see that it was absolute hell!!

fun wittle fact , his engine was called a centripetal flow engine , where the air is spun at high speed , all jets now days use " axial flow " where a series of progressively smaller fans force the air along the engine and squeezed in to a smaller hole while being sped up , a turbo fan is a small axial flow engine turning a big ducted fan , and a turbo prop is a axial flow geared to turn a propeller

I absolutely fallen from my bed laughing the he was flying to Tahiti.

As if Ebola could ever spread across the world . . .

36:31 right at chicago

Forget the DC-8 or the 707.... British Vickers Viscount (pressurized turboprop airliner) made its first flight in 1948 with ROUND WINDOWS!

35:30 One word: GOLD.

As much as he praises the Jet, the fact of the matter is that Prop aircraft are still used in training/close airport roles. Their also used a ton for civilian aircraft and allot of less developed parts of the worlds use prop transports.

Simplistic but quite good fun . No doubt about it the Gloster E28/39 for a first jet aircraft was superb

14:38 "Aeroplane" (as opposed to the American "Airplane"), I love it! Aeroplane just sounds so much more elegant!

amazing..Please BBC publish these great documentaries in good quality

Clarkson predicted Ebola before we all set ourselves on fire.

Ebola...

OMG. He's walking barefoot, in the rain, on a sidewalk in new york. That's soooo gross.

What I find funny is the fact that everybody in the comments claim that THEIR country was the birthplace of these inventions, you do know that by doing so you're proving yourself wrong. People don't seem to understand that historical facts change depending on the country you live in due to pure patriotism

"I'm flying to here." LOL Sometimes he pisses me off, but sometimes he's funny. Just part of who he is.

Just watching this again ... Jeremy seems to be quite fascinated with Moorea (Mue ... Mueeehe) which is served from Tahiti by ATR-72 Turboprops :o)

fun 707 fact , qantas actually scored the first 707s before pan am and after they were retired from civil use they were used in the RAAF and only retired in 2008 , john travolta is a qualified 707pilot and actually purchased an ex qantas 707

A jet is a type of gas turbine engine, other types are turbo fan (modern thrust producers), turboprop (uses a propeller for trust) and turbo shaft (torque producer) all of which are better in every way than a jet. I find it hard to believe that simple vapor trails increase temperatures more than .0000000000001 degrees. And until Airbus stops having a reputation for extremely high maintenance I think boeing will be just fine.

so... coanda did have the idea, design,... but the first recorded flight in a jet plane was in 1938, as told by clarkson Coandă's colleague at Huyck Corporation, G. Harry Stine-a rocket scientist, author and "the father of American model rocketry"-stated in his book The Hopeful Future that "there were several jet-propelled aircraft in existence at an early time-the Coandă-1910 jet and the 1938 Caproni Campini N.1, the pure jet aircraft flight was made in Germany in 1938". Rolf Sonnemann and Klaus Krug from the University of Technology of Dresden, mentioned in passing in their 1987 book Technik und Technikwissenschaften in der Geschichte (Technology and Technical Sciences in History) that the Coandă-1910 was the world's first jet. Between 1911 and 1914, he worked as technical manager of the Bristol Aeroplane Company[1] in the United Kingdom, where he designed several aeroplanes known as the Bristol-Coanda Monoplanes. In 1912 one of these aircraft won a prize at the British Military Aeroplane Competition. In 1915, he returned to France where, working during World War I for Delaunay-Belleville in Saint-Denis, he designed and built three different models of propeller aeroplane, including the Coandă-1916, with two propellers mounted close to the tail. This design was to be reprised in the 1950s Sud Aviation Caravelle transport aeroplane, for which Coandă was a technical consultant. In the years between the wars, he continued traveling and inventing. In 1934 he was granted a French patent related to the Coandă Effect. During early 1930 he used the same principle as the basis for the design of a disc-shaped aircraft called Aerodina Lenticulara, a "flying saucer" that used an unspecified source of high pressure gases to flow through a ring-shaped vent system. In 1936 Coandă applied for a patent for his design.[10] No practical full-scale version was built.

Thinking how so many of the Boeing 747-400s shown will be history by the end of 2015 is making me feel old! However the vision about the unsuccessful 'scramjet' concept is hilarious ... Nobody could travel SYD - LHR in two hours. Wouldn't withstand the resultant forces on the human body :o)

"If a serious bug like ebola gets on a plane..." Iluminati confirmed

Love the intro music :D

*american beauty theme plays for no reason*

37:06 hahahaha he brings up a great point.

Its a tough life flying all round the world. Dont envy Clarkson at all.

Holy shit jezza. U predicted our current Ebola problem. Clarkson ur a genius

Silly Jeremy I would love to see you fly in a Scramjet ^.^ remember that lovely fighter jet you don't like? you get to do that twice as fast just to start your engine before the real ride hehe.

"The locals gave him and his crew food, and shelter. And were rewarded with... Syphilis"

I was waiting the whole time for them to play Paul McCartney's "Jet" in the background

Jeremy is keen to give credit for every invention to britain. He 178 was the world's first jet plane and it was German.Han van ohain made the first ever jet engine. Many of the british inventions are traced back to other Europeans,most Germans,Britain mostly introduced them to the english speaking world.

47:26 EBOLA (Jeredamus)

18:34 Jeremy reminiscing about concorde ...

The jet has been invented by the ROMANIAN HENRY COANDA !!!

LMAO "Not next to someone who is fat" can't blame him

A weapon of peace.

I don't have any probs liking this guy. Especially his war docs. Wished he'd do more war docs like the Victorian Cross winners. Great stuff as far as I am concerned.

50:21- 50:38 absolutely priceless

A Beautiful Mind soundtrack and Road to Perdition soundtrack.

7 hours in what is either business or first class: OH, THE HUMANITY!

the first working jet engine was build by the norway Aegidius Elling in 1903, in 1908 Georges Marconnet had the idea to use jet engines at planes

Whats the name of the song at 00:22mins and at 55:07mins ?

What's the name of the song that starts when a380 comes in?

That story about Frank Whittle was amazing. Jeremy clarckson is one hell of a story teller.

44:50 Way to go Jeremy. 3 billion passengers flown every year with less than 3000 killed in accidents, yet you just show the crashes.... From many many different years by the way. You are 1000 times more likely to be killed in a car accident driving to the airport than you are to die in a plane crash.

18:01 & that's why you bring a book, a pad, a laptop or a handheld console

18:57 No, Jeremy. A comet is not the same as a meteor or a meteorite.

Analysis since this program was made has shown that the windows really weren't what caused Comets to break up. The entire aluminium skin was simplyb made too thin to handle the repeated pressurization cycles.

Watching this 10 years on makes me see how much the world has gone to f... TEN YEARS AGO social media on the smart phone was just getting going. I wonder is there any connection?

Does anyone know the title of the song that starts at 40:30?

No mention of Maxime Guillaume, who invented and even patented the concept of the jet engine in 1921, 7 years before whittle even presented the idea. How odd.

Clarkson is right it is stupid to not let people go up and have a chat with the captain. #freethecockpit

I am so happy that Jeremy is so grateful for the USA making it evan possible that he is still speaking english . But then what would you expect from him .

Could someone please assist...the name of the tune @ 40:39?

What's the song @52:04? omg it is going to bug me for a week now...

whats the music at 32:45 ?????????????????

It's tough flying round the world in Business/First class isn't Jeremy. Try Cattle class like the rest of us then you'll have something to moan about !

What's the name of the song that begins at around 7:15?

What's the name of the song that begins at around 55 : 19

Does anyone else think the piano played throughout this sounds very much like the piano part you hear throughout the movie American Beauty?

37:33 - "I'd rather be a veal". It's a calf, Jeremy.

#BringBackClarkson

fun comet fact , when the comet was deemed a heba they were remodeled in to the minrod early warning anti submarine roll for the RAF and served till the late 90s ,,,,, from memory might have been a little later

ah, glorious 240p

Sad thing about the Comet, beautiful aircraft. If I was a bored rich guy I'd have a replica made as my private plane.

47:30 seems very relevant these days...

Los Angeles+San Andreas=GTA V

18:03 Johnny Leydon moment

Can't help but notice that the honorable Mr. Clarkson is bitching about a 7-hour flight IN FIRST CLASS.

47:27 lol

Alan Bond, the next Frank Whittle?

I once flew from my home in Singapore to Frankfurt, drove to Stuttgart for a meeting then back to Frankfurt then back to Singapore the same day, no shower, it was nasty

"Quite a bit of it [the trip] in America." 5 or 6 hours out of the 120?

Shame, if De Havilland had made the windows of the Comet round then Britain would no doubt still dominate the Aerospace Industry today. Although a lot of people don't know that Britain does still play a major part having the 2nd or 3rd (depending on means of measurement) largest aerospace industry............. in the world

LOL about ebola @47:00

I think Howard Hughes did the same thing in the 1930s, 3 days, 19 hours...I got that online

38:08 - I would rather go to the skegness 😃😃😃

The jet was independently developed in England and Germany.

the americans developed a working, efficient , mass producible jet engine at virtually the same exact time as the brits

Did Clarkson just predict the Ebola epidemic

They should redo this and add Sub orbital flight. 30 mins to cross the Atlantic

6 mins before a rebuild? dragsters need one after less than 10 secs lol

Ebola? well, the guy was right on top...

I love it when the rest of the world calls U.S. documentaries biased and here's y f orgetting to mention how Germany was the first to put a jet engine to work in 1940 (1943 for sEngland), as well as the fact that giving the technology to the US, who came into save their ass along with Russia, was a great move diplomatically. Giving it to Russia however, was one of the worst mistakes England has ever made in its entire history!

34:30 didnt the test pilot do a barrel roll durring the presentation for the buyers?

Oh god I was so stupid, I was convinced that germans are the first to invent a jet engine. Must do some research all over again. :)