Does anyone watch Discovery Wings channel on cable/satellite ? I’ve just been informed by NTL that they’ll be adding it to my channel package next week and wonder if like other Discovery channels it has a tendency to show the same 5 or 6 programmes all day long ?
Any thoughts ?
By: Ren Frew - 8th November 2002 at 13:39
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Well Discovery Wings has landed on my TV. Looking forward to a docu about Goose Bay tonight!
By: Saab 2000 - 30th October 2002 at 18:42
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Flight Deck is good….
By: Ren Frew - 29th October 2002 at 23:50
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Hmmm… sounds like I’ve seen most of these shows already on Discovery Channel proper. Oh well I live in hope of exciting new plane shows.
By: andrewm - 29th October 2002 at 21:54
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Then ondigital dumped DW for plane old Discovery :@:@ well at least in my area then wehn they went bust we got NTL.
I must lookout for “A chopper is born” as mark said he might so at the end of the last series. Is it currently in DW, if so wht nights
By: wysiwyg - 29th October 2002 at 21:14
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Mark Stephenson’s program was called ‘A plane is born’. He is a well known kit car builder (and UK morning TV presenter) who was filmed as he built his tri-gear Europa and completed his PPL in a Warrior at Staverton. It made a very good series and I believe is currently on the screen again with an identical series about him building a Rotorway Exec kit built helicopter!
I used to watch Discovery wings on my OnDigital box. They showed it from 6pm to 2am with 3 hours of programs that repeated. The programs were very good quality but after about 3 weeks you had seen the entire selection and they started all over again! It drove the wife up the wall!
By: andrewm - 29th October 2002 at 16:29
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I think it is good but the shows like Airshow! are 1997 ish air shows and the program isnt that uptodate!! I liked the program about Mark Stevenson building his own plane. It was a series about him getting a PPL and building a kit plane at the same time. It is showing in reruns. They have moderate amount of Airforces stuff but lots of Commerical!!
Hehe my mums friend is in charge of Discovery Europe and he gives me sneek previews of programs on the channel and asks my opinion:):)
By: T5 - 29th October 2002 at 12:30
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We’re subscribers to NTL and have a huge package with lots of great channels.
However, NTL recently told us that instead of paying £5 to watch one Premier League football match, we could pay just an extra £1 a month to watch as many games as we wanted to. We would also get a whole host of new stations including Discovery Wings for a quid a month.
It runs from 18:00hrs – 02:00hrs and often has some good stuff on it. It does repeat everything once though, so from 6pm til 10pm you can watch 4 hours of unseen stuff and then from 10pm til 2am you get the whole lot repeated, but it has something for everyone and Flightpath is particularly interesting.
I actually watched a documentary about Air Traffic Control a few weeks back and it was so good that I watched the repeat.
If you haven’t got it, I’d certainly recommend it.
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October 29, 2002 at 12:00 pm