Episodes

10 episodes in this season

Super Airship

60 min

Mega Truck

60 min

Supership

60 min

Bullet Train

60 min

800 Ton Digger

60 min

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Heavyweight Helicopter

60 min

Ultimate Dragster

60 min

Aircraft Carrier

60 min

Jumbo Jet

60 min

E10

Ice Crawler

60 min

Rise of the Machines

TV Series

20141h7.9

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Heavyweight Helicopter

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Apr 8, 2014

This episode explodes open the world's only purpose built flying crane–the Erickson Air Crane–to reveal the extraordinary technology that it depends on to construct 120 giant steel transmission towers in only eight days. Chief Pilot Travis Harrold and his crew take to the skies to build a vital link in a new $1.6 billion power line across the remote Albertan prairies. Grappling the controls of this 10,000 horsepower hauling machine, the team must lift eight-ton steel towers high into the air and set them with absolute precision. At critical moments, immersive CGI will peel back the Air Crane's aluminum skin to plunge us deep inside her DNA. Exploring engineering breakthroughs within this aerial acrobat will reveal surprising secrets of how the technology evolved, inspired by extraordinary lessons from nature and history.

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Rise of the Machines

TV Series

20141h7.9

Documentary

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Heavyweight Helicopter

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Apr 8, 2014

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