Mighty Planes

Mighty Planes is a documentary television program produced by and aired on Discovery Channel Canada and also broadcast around the world.[1] Similarly to its sister series Mighty Ships, each episode follows a particular aircraft and provides an insight into what it does.

Mighty Planes
Mighty Planes Logo and poster
GenreDocumentary
Created byDiscovery Channel
Narrated byMike Goral (2012-2017)
Jamie Carr (III) (2017)
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes25
Production
Running time45 Minutes
Release
Original networkDiscovery Channel Canada
Original release2012–
External links
Website

Mighty Planes is part of Discovery Channel's Mighty series. These include Mighty Ships, Mighty Cruise Ships and Mighty Trains.[2]

The series has aired 4 seasons[3] with 25 episodes in total.

Series overview
The Martin JRM Mars was one of the aircraft featured in season 1 of Mighty Planes

A typical Mighty Planes episode highlights one plane or group of them. Aircraft featured range from the Orbis flying eye hospital to the largest passenger jet ever built, to Air Force aircraft such as the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy. The episodes follow the aircraft while it is on a flight or mission start to finish. Similarly to Mighty Ships, Mighty Planes uses computer-generated animation to show scenes which would not otherwise be doable.[4]

After a lengthy hiatus, the series returned in 2017 with its 4th and most recent season.[3] Mike Goral who narrated the first 3 seasons of the series was replaced by Jamie Carr.

Episode

Season 1
No. in series No. in season Title Aircraft type Aircraft operator Narrated by Original air date
1 1 Orbis McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Orbis Mike Goral February 26, 2012
2 2 Martin Mars Martin JRM Mars Coulson Flying Tankers Inc. Mike Goral February 26, 2012
3 3 Hercules LC-130 Skibird Lockheed LC-130 United States Air Force Mike Goral March 4, 2012
4 4 Antonov 124 Antonov 124 Antonov Airlines Mike Goral March 4, 2012
5 5 Airbus A380 Airbus A380 Lufthansa Mike Goral March 4, 2012
6 6 C-5M Super Galaxy C-5M Super Galaxy United States Air Force Mike Goral March 11, 2012
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy was featured in season 2

Season 2
No. in series No. in season Title Aircraft type Aircraft operator Narrated by Original air date
7 1 Trump 757 Boeing 757 Donald Trump Mike Goral June 9, 2013
8 2 C-17 Globemaster C-17 Globemaster United States Air Force Mike Goral June 9, 2013
9 3 Omega 707 Boeing 707 Omega Aerial Refueling Services Mike Goral June 12, 2013
10 4 P-3 Orion Lockheed WP-3D Orion National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Mike Goral June 12, 2013
11 5 SOFIA Boeing 747SP NASA Mike Goral June 16, 2013
12 6 Blue Angels McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet United States Navy Mike Goral June 16, 2013
NASA's Aero Spacelines Super Guppy was featured in season 3

Season 3
No. in series No. in season Title Aircraft type Aircraft operator Narrated by Original air date
13 1 Aurora CP140 Lockheed CP-140 Aurora Royal Canadian Air Force Mike Goral May 24, 2015
14 2 T-38 Talon T-38 Talon United States Air Force Mike Goral May 29, 2015
15 3 CC-115 Buffalo CC-115 Buffalo Royal Canadian Air Force Mike Goral June 5, 2015
16 4 Super Guppy Aero Spacelines Super Guppy NASA Mike Goral June 12, 2015
17 5 Nolinor Boeing 737-200 Nolinor Aviation Mike Goral June 19, 2015
18 6 Best of Mighty Planes A380, Blue Angels, Orbis DC-10, Lufthansa, United States Air Force, Orbis Mike Goral June 23, 2015
The Stargazer L1011 was featured in season 4

Season 4
No. in series No. in season Title Aircraft type Aircraft operator Narrated by Original air date
19 1 Boeing 747-8F Boeing 747-8F AirBridgeCargo Jamie Carr October 1, 2017
20 2 Stargazer L-1011 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar Orbital ATK Jamie Carr October 8, 2017
21 3 C2A Greyhound C2A Greyhound United States Navy Jamie Carr October 15, 2017
22 4 Ilyushin IL-76 Ilyushin IL-76 Volga-Dnepr Airlines Jamie Carr October 22, 2017
23 5 Airbus A400M Airbus A400M Atlas German Air Force Jamie Carr October 29, 2017
24 6 Twin Otter Twin Otter Royal Canadian Air Force Jamie Carr November 5, 2017

References
  1. "Mighty Planes debuts on Discovery Canada". thestar.com. 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  2. "Mighty Planes". Bell Media. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  3. "Original Canadian Series MIGHTY PLANES Makes Return Flight to Discovery for Season 4, Premiering October 1". Bell Media. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  4. vfx, Kerosene (2017-12-08), Mighty Planes, retrieved 2020-09-18
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