2003

S6.E1 ∙ Building a Destroyer

Mon, Aug 06, 2007

Happy and Glory have to deal with winning and losing once a country music talent scout chooses between them. But friendship always prevails in Doodyville!

8.4 /10

In this episode of Extreme Engineering, Sixty-five miles east of Los Angeles, at one thousand feet below the mountain range, we are going down the belly of the earth. Miners are digging two huge tunnels to channel water from the Sacramento Valley to Southern-California. An extremely dangerous job, working through treacherous terrain next to the San Andrea's fault line. The Miners encounter life-threatening conditions such as loose earth, floods and fires.

7.8 /10

S6.E3 ∙ Boot Camp

Mon, Oct 29, 2007

In this episode of Extreme Engineering, We visit Flett Construction, one of Boston's most respected construction company, where Danny's mission is to earn a place as a crew-member for the opportunity to work on project. Bruce Flett, the company owner, puts Danny through heavy equipment "boot camp". Danny takes to sand blasting. He makes the team and gets to take part in the Fenway Park (the oldest major league ball park still in operation and home of the Red Sox) excavation project.

8 /10

S6.E4 ∙ World's Tallest Skyscraper

Mon, Nov 05, 2007

In this episode of Extreme Engineering, We look at the construction of The Shanghai World Financial Center, soon to be the world's tallest building standing at over sixteen hundred feet in height. Constructed as a series of twelve stories modules, we will observe a crew of almost two thousand, working simultaneously on twelve floors, from installing the mega columns, to hanging-in a half tone pane of glass six hundred feet above Shanghai, raising the sixth module over a two weeks period. As they are faced with many challenges including typhoon Utor!

7.4 /10

S6.E5 ∙ Battle Machines

Mon, Nov 12, 2007

In this episode of Extreme Engineering, We are heading to Fort Knox, Kentucky Armor Center Tankers and Training Firing Range to look at the most powerful tank in the United States Army's seventy tones M1- Abraham main battle tank, valued at five million dollars a piece! With fifteen hundred-horse power turbine engines, its one hundred and twenty millimeter gun so accurate, it can hit a target almost two miles away; it is one of the most feared of its kind. We will follow a one million dollars restoration for one of them.

8.2 /10