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Impossible Engineering

Season 9 2020
TV-G

  • 2020-11-12T02:00:00Z on Science
  • 42m
  • 2h 48m (4 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
Impossible Engineering looks at the history of pioneering modern-day mega structures. 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. It is a tribute to their achievements. Each episode details how giant structures, record-beating buildings, and the world’s most cutting-edge ships, trains and planes are built and work using 3D graphics, archive and specially shot footage. As this series revels in these modern day creations, it leaps back in time to recount the stories of the exceptional engineers whose technological advances made it all possible.

4 episodes

Season Premiere

2020-11-12T02:00:00Z

9x01 World's Largest Plane: Stratolaunch

Season Premiere

9x01 World's Largest Plane: Stratolaunch

  • 2020-11-12T02:00:00Z42m

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.

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.

2020-11-26T02:00:00Z

9x03 Kings of the Battlefield

9x03 Kings of the Battlefield

  • 2020-11-26T02:00:00Z42m

To carry infantry troops to the frontlines, military engineers designed three battlefield behemoths that command the land, sea, and air; special access reveals how cutting-edge tech made these innovations for the U.S. Air Force, Army, and Marines possible.

Season Finale

2020-12-03T02:00:00Z

9x04 Titan on the Water

Season Finale

9x04 Titan on the Water

  • 2020-12-03T02:00:00Z42m

A cutting-edge engineering marvel can lift boats and water to astonishing heights, and its advanced design makes it the first and only construction of its kind; behind-the-scenes access shows how it works.

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