1969: The Trans-Atlantic Air Race From London To New York | Secrets Of The Transport Museum

This week at Brooklands, 86-year-old pilot, Tom Lecky-Thompson, is reunited with the harrier jet that he flew across the Atlantic ocean during the 1969 Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race. He won his category with his flight partner and travelled from the Post Office Tower in London to the Empire State building in New York in under 6 hours and 12 minutes!
In this behind the scenes series, we're invited to the Brooklands museum as we follow the volunteers and staff as they mend, maintain and restore the most extraordinary historic motors and airplanes in the world. From cars, motorbikes, buses to bi-planes, all of these are all tuned up and restored using engineering expertise and knowledge that is slowly becoming non-existent.