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.
Showing Season 9 of 11
Season 9
2020
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01. Largest Plane: Stratolaunch
2020-11-11
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.
02. World’s Greatest Waterworks
2020-11-18
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.
03. Kings of the Battlefield
2020-11-25
Explore three battlefield behemoths that command land, sea and air.
04. Titan on the Water
2020-12-02
Inside access shows how an engineering marvel lifts boats to new heights.
