About this season
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.
Episodes (4)
1. Largest Plane: Stratolaunch
Aired 11 November 2020 • 42 min
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.
2. World’s Greatest Waterworks (South-North Water Diversion)
Aired 18 November 2020 • 42 min
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.
3. Kings of the Battlefield (Infantry Assault)
Aired 25 November 2020 • 42 min
Explore three battlefield behemoths that command land, sea and air.
4. Titan on the Water (The Falkirk Wheel)
Aired 2 December 2020 • 42 min
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.