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Extreme Machines(1997–2002)
April 26, 19976 Seasons · 60 Episodes
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Overview
This series features some of the world's biggest and meanest machines and examines their complex mechanics.
Network Discovery
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This series features some of the world's biggest and meanest machines and examines their complex mechanics.
See how today's nuclear submarines play an integral role in U.S. national defense.
Documentary looking at some of the most spectacular and dramatic train journeys in the world, including meetings with the engineers, drivers and passengers. The programme explores the historical background of some of the lines, and highlights the incredible engineering feats needed to build them.
The 21st Century promises to offer travellers a wide range of new flying experiences. From giant triple deck super jumbos to supersonic planes and giant airships, flying in this century will continue to be the most fascinating and fastest way to travel the globe. This program looks at the ideas that are still on the drawing boards, such as time-reducing suborbital flights, to aircraft that are ready to roll out of the hanger and fly passengers to exciting new destinations.
1997
All About Submersibles
All About Helicopters. Featuring the AH-64 Apache.
All About Hovercraft
All About Race Cars
Featuring Rocket Tech: Space Shuttle, Energia/Buran, Long March 3B, Ariane 5, V-2 Rocket, R-16/SS-7 Saddler, R-7 Semyorka/SS-6 Sapwood, Vostok, Mercury, Saturn V, DC-XA
All About Roller Coasters
Featuring: Space Shuttle, DC-XA, VentureStar, Energia/Buran, HOPE-X, Hermes
Going Fast...
This program focuses on the fastest, largest, and tallest trains. We take a brief look at the steam era -- at the Mallard and the huge Big Boys of the Union Pacific railways and a more detailed look at the trains of today -- in particular the French TGV with its top speed of 320 mph. We investigate breaking systems, on-board computer systems and the latest in hi-tech tracks. We show some of the spectacular train crashes and disasters across time and take the audience on a time-lapse trip from London to Paris. Finally, we look at plans for the future with NASA's Maglifter concept -- a launch lift for tomorrow's space train.
Gripping archive footage documents tanks in action from the First World War to Desert Storm; the most advanced tanks in the world today; a glimpse of the claustrophobic world of the tank crew; US Future Combat System.
Journey towards the centre of the earth inside the deepest mine in the U.S.; the fire that broke out in the Channel Tunnel between the U.K. and France; what happens in a mine explosion.
Cars are the most popular machine on the planet; they are the machines of the 20th century. They thrill, they excite, they generate a loyalty and passion like no other machine. Car Crazy hitches a ride through the world of the automobile. We go drag racing with the world's fastest drag racers reaching speeds of over 515 kilometres per hour in just 366 metres. We drive off road with Baja Bugs, souped-up VWs that take on the worst nature has to offer and win. And we look to the future to see where the car is heading.
Experience the exciting and flamboyant world of aviation. This program focuses on unusual aircraft and man's most extreme methods of flying. We take a look at different ways of powering aircraft from a home-built plane powered with a lawn- mower engine to the cutting edge technology of NASA's solar powered planes. We take a close look into the world of VTOL - Vertical Take Off and Landing planes, specifically the infamous Harrier Jump Jet with its unique manoeuvrability and ability to take-off and land from almost anywhere.
Trucks are unquestionably the giants of the road. We cover all the uses of trucks throughout this film from the serious business of transportation almost everything we consume is at some stage transported by a truck to the thrills and spills of truck racing, witnessing the world's fastest truck racing a jet aircraft and truck stunts. We take a look at the New York fire brigade in action. Their trucks are so long that they need an extra driver at the back! We also feature the world's most expensive truck which doubles up as a TV studio. The price? A cool $6 million!
Profiles 4-wheel drive vehicles through a wide variety of terrains from the beautiful and dangerous glaciers of Iceland to the mighty and unforgiving Gobi Desert and beyond. We study their scientific development over the years and watch the amazing feats they can perform both for fun, racing, adventuring and stunts-and for far more serious purposes, the life-saving vehicles able to reach inaccessible and remote locations where no other road vehicle can go.
Hop aboard the U.S. Navy's huge floating fortress the John C. Stennis; profiling a variety of other carriers from the U.S. Marines to the British Navy; see carriers in a variety of temperatures from the equator to the Arctic.
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William Hootkins
Narrator
2002