Inside Mighty Machines

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  • Premiered: Apr 2019
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • Smithsonian Channel
  • Sunday
  • Documentary

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Season 1
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Jumbo Jet
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 28, 2019
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.
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Power Plant
Episode overview
Air date
May 05, 2019
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.
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Hovercraft
Episode overview
Air date
May 12, 2019
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.
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Deep Sea Oil Rig
Episode overview
Air date
May 19, 2019
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.
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C5 Galaxy
Episode overview
Air date
May 26, 2019
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.
1x6 Show finale
Aircraft Carrier
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 02, 2019
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.

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