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1997 BBC drama series about the Royal Flying Corps based around Alan Farmer, a young blacksmith turned fighter pilot in World War I, Captain Triggers his teacher and mentor, and his upper-class friend, Charles Gaylion, who began a relationship with Farmer’s girlfriend while Farmer was believed dead, shot down over France. The series reveals British pilots struggling with aeroplanes which are unreliable and inferior to the German machines, and with an Establishment that classes voicing an opinion to that effect as being tantamount to cowardice. The airmen also face the resentment of British soldiers who see them having an ‘easy’ life
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Great care was taken with historical accuracy, covering the early days of the parachute, the fitting of weaponry to British biplanes (lacking the Germans’ interruptor gear, they had to be fired at an angle rather than through the propellers) and the horrors of trench warfare. Wings depicts a Britain that was, in some areas, struggling to adapt in the face of change, at a period that was a turning point for many people’s way of life
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