Name: Inside Mighty Machines
Released: 2019-04-28T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Chad Zdenek

TV Show · Documentary · Educational

Examine giant machines, from a 747 to a power plant and from a North Sea oil rig to a massive hovercraft.

2019 · 44m

Starring Chad Zdenek

EPISODE 1

Jumbo Jet

Former NASA engineer Chad Zdenek joins an aircraft-dismantling team in Mississippi as a Boeing 747 lands on the runway for the last time; Zdenek cuts his way through the cabin, cockpit and four jet engines to strip the plane into six million parts.

43 min
EPISODE 2

Power Plant

Chad Zdenek heads to North Carolina to dismantle and then implode the Buck Steam Station, a nearly 100-year-old coal power plant built in the 1920s, which, at its peak, burned up to 20,000 tons of coal per day and powered up to a 1,000 homes.

43 min
EPISODE 3

Hovercraft

Chad Zdenek joins a salvage team to tear apart the world's biggest hovercraft and reveal the engineering innovations that made it a legend of its time; Chad joins the crew of an LCAC, the U.S. Navy's state-of-the art military hovercraft.

43 min
EPISODE 4

Deep Sea Oil Rig

Chad Zdenek joins a team that is dismantling the North Sea's biggest oil rig; as the 400-foot-high monster is towed ashore, he reveals the story of how deep-water oil engineers raced to build an enormous machine to drill through the sea bed.

43 min
EPISODE 5

C5 Galaxy

Chad Zdenek joins a team responsible for stripping down and rebuilding the biggest aircraft in the U.S. Air Force's arsenal, the Lockheed C5 Super Transporter; Chad sees how engineering overcame the design flaws that once grounded the C5 fleet.

43 min
EPISODE 6

Aircraft Carrier

Chad Zdenek follows the mechanics, engineers and sailors who maintain the USS Carl Vinson, a U.S. aircraft carrier that is at the forefront of military technology.

41 min

Chad Zdenek

Host
John Cavanaugh

Producer
David Royle

Producer
Edward Hart

Producer
Ailsa Orr

Producer
Belinda Cherrington

Producer
Charles Poe

Producer
Tony Lee

Producer

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Studio: Smithsonian Channel
Released: 2019

Languages

Original Audio: English (United States)
Audio: English (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), Japanese (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), Portuguese (Brazil) (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), Spanish (Latin America) (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), Spanish (Spain) (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩)
Subtitles: Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Danish , Finnish , French (France) , Korean , Norwegian , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish

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