James May's Big Ideas - s01e01 Come Fly with Me (2008)

The splendidly bufferish James May returns for what feels like a sequel to James May's 20th Century - i.e. him pottering about looking through a curtain of hair at cool bits of engineering. In this case, he's looking more to the future than the past, starting with personal transport and the vexed question: how can we design something to beat traffic-jam misery and get us from A to B without bumping into each other? His first answer is the wonderfully strange "ekranoplan" - a Russian sort-of-plane that flies very fast just above the ground. After that there's a Japanese strap-on helicopter ("That's rather excellent"), the 1950s aerocar ("That's most excellent") and the Harrier jump jet ("Genuinely uncanny"). He even has a go, very briefly, with a real-life rocket pack. You don't have to be a gadget nut to enjoy it, though it'll help if you like May. Then again, that's not hard.





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