Impossible Engineering
Behind every seemingly impossible marvel of modern engineering is a cast of historic trailblazers who designed new building techniques, took risks on untested materials and revolutionised their field. Each episode details how giant structures, record-beating buildings, war ships and spacecraft are built and work. As the show revels in these modern day creations, it also leaps back in time to recount the stories of the exceptional engineers whose technological advances made it all possible.
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Season 9
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Largest Plane: Stratolaunch
Test pilots and engineers embark on the first flight of the largest airplane ever built: the Stratolaunch, a one-of-a-kind aircraft designed to transport rockets, spacecraft and experimental hypersonic planes into the stratosphere.
Nov 11, 2020 -
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World’s Greatest Waterworks (South-North Water Diversion)
Engineers in China are constructing the largest and most ambitious water transfer project in human history, defying nature to move vast quantities of water from the south to the dry north in Beijing, all without the use of pumping stations.
Nov 18, 2020 · 42m -
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Kings of the Battlefield (Infantry Assault)
Explore three battlefield behemoths that command land, sea and air.
Nov 25, 2020 -
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Titan on the Water (The Falkirk Wheel)
The Falkirk wheel is the first and only rotating boat lift, capable of moving 600 tonnes of boat and water over a 25-metre height difference in just minutes.
Dec 2, 2020
