Mega Air

Mega Air gets up close to the most bizarre air freighter on the planet, the bulbous Airbus Beluga, a flying whale that swallows entire aircraft wings. We chart the misfortunes of a wealthy, American classic car enthusiast, air-freighting one of the earliest cars ever built to a famous UK car rally; and, to much fanfare, global mega movers, UPS take delivery of a brand-new Boeing 747-8, the largest freighter made in the US.

Mega Air follows the challenging journey of a 55-million-dollar batch of cancer pharmaceuticals, from Northern Ireland to Heathrow, for a flight to the US. An East Midlands Airport wildlife officer gets into a flap trying to scare birds from his runway. Two gigantic stone crushing machines, destined for an African mine, threaten to crush the monster Antonov 124 air freighter. We travel with a pushback driver at one of America's busiest cargo airports.

Before lights out to start the Formula 1 season in Australia, Mega Air gets rare access behind the scenes at F1 team Haas as they rush to pack tonnes of cars and gear for air freighting. We roar back into Formula 1's past as former world champion Kimi Raikkonen's car flies to the Middle East and life-saving, temperature-controlled pharmaceuticals are given an almighty battering by the elements on a 6000 mile to Singapore.

Mega Air gets privileged access to the world's biggest air package handling facility at UPS Worldport, that ingeniously sorts up to 2 million items per night for worldwide delivery. We hitch a ride on the red-eye mail plane shuttle providing a vital service to the Channel Islands. Britain's busiest pure cargo airport is in full fire drill as fireman tackle a mock air freighter inferno and at Helsinki airport mystery freight provides a shocking outcome.