Inside Mighty Machines

tv show

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6 total episodes

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1 seasons

First Aired April 28, 2019

Overview

Former NASA rocket engineer Chad Zdenek takes apart some of the world's mightiest machines and uncovers their secrets.

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Hovercraft

Season 1 - Episode 3 - 1h 45m

Air Date

May 12, 2019

Overview

Southampton, on England's south coast, is the final home of what was once the biggest hovercraft ever built - the Princess Margaret. As crews strip it down, Zdenek uncovers the principles that allow this 300-ton amphibious craft to hover weightlessly over the ground - and the water. Zdenek explores how the era of mighty passenger hovercrafts was finally brought to a surprising end by cheap alcohol - and then joins the crew of an LCAC, the U.S. Navy's state of the art military hovercraft, deployed in some of the world's most extreme conditions.