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Extreme Machines

Specials
TV-PG

  • Discovery
  • 45m
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
This series features some of the world's biggest and meanest machines and examines their complex mechanics.

4 episodes

Bonneville Salt Flats is the spiritual home of landspeed racing. This exciting program sees Al Teague, who beat the world record for wheel-driven cars in 1991, return there to defend his title against speed legend Don Vesco and his super car in the 1999 World Speed Finals.

This fascinating program gains an insight into the lives of the title holders of "Fastest Man on Earth" who explain their obsession with speed. Meet Andy Green who jets across the sound barrier in his Tornado jet and Pat Rummerfield, a quadriplegic who smashed the world landspeed record.

Special 4 Superplanes

  • no air date45m

For hundreds of years one of mankind's oldest and most persistent aspirations was human flight. Today the world's fastest race planes can exceed 800 km/h. This is your ultimate guide to the superplanes.

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