... and now that I change the name to it's correct, incorrect spelling, I find that it's a dupe. :(

In an alternate 1940's where the second world war never happened and the depression seems to have been ended by massive corporate consolidation leading to the rebirth of the robber barons of old.

There was a lot more going on in this show than you'd think. I'm afraid to type its name into google these days for fear of what the internet has done with it.

I seem to remember them running aerial refuelling stations suspended by balloons or something. Or was that just one episode?

you did it right

I wonder if the Disney Afternoon animators know they were almost single-handedly responsible for future furries' MILF material.

I didn't develop a fursona, but I did start reading up on old planes. I quickly learned that the show's planes weren't very accurate, and decided this was history's fault for not being as cool.

Yeah, pretty much.