Impossible Engineering (UK)

Aircraft Carrier (1x1)

Uitzenddatum: Apr 13, 2015

A shouty series on engineering opens with a look at HMS Queen Elizabeth, a new aircraft carrier, which, as the programme never tires of boasting, is very big indeed. A “floating goliath”, it has four acres of UK territory that can be deployed anywhere in the world – or will when it is finished. (There’s no mention here of the spiralling cost of the project – from £3.2 billion to an estimated £6 billion.) The doc charts the history of each design element from the ship’s turbine engines to the vertical take-off fighters it will carry, with an intriguing footnote on the short-lived Convair Pogo – a sweet-looking aircraft that took off and landed on its tail.