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How Did They Fix That?
S3, EP7 "US Navy Hovercraft Overhaul"Mike joins the Assault Craft Unit 5, the U.S. Navy's team for Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCACs); LCACs carry heavy vehicles and troops onto beaches; Mike helps fly & fix an overhauled LCAC during a U.S. Marines beach assault training mission.
How Did They Fix That?
S3, EP6 "Sealing Nevada's Abandoned Mines"Nevada has over 40,000 abandoned mines posing dangers; Mike joins contractors for a week to secure five sites; alongside biologists, they explore and document wildlife; reaching these isolated mines requires barges, helicopters and bulldozers.
How Did They Build That?
S2, EP2 "Swamps & Swagger"Exploring behind-the-scenes of design and construction of revolutionary buildings in Spain, New York and a university campus in Florida.
How Did They Build That?
S2, EP10 "Radical & Resplendent"Exploring the design and engineering stories behind D.C.'s Museum of African American History, the Montreal Tower and the Equinor building in Oslo.
How Did They Build That?
S4, EP1 "Space Stations and Super"Celebrating one of humanities biggest engineering achievements, the International Space Station, a meteor proof lab bigger than a football field, constructed by astronauts traveling 250 miles above us at 17,500 miles an hour.
How Did They Build That?
S4, EP10 "Floating Parks & Upcycled Towers"On inadequate foundations, San Francisco's MoMA triples in size creating an exterior light enough to prevent collapse; a 1970s Sydney skyscraper is recycled into a 21st century tower; in Dallas, a five-acre park is created.
How Did They Build That?
S5, EP9 "Space Homes & Glass Waves"NASA's 3D-printed Mars habitat rehearses human life on the red planet. Seoul's historic city hall gains a 13-story glass wave. And in Dallas, 68,000 square feet of concrete galleries balance on legs that want to splay open under.
Air Disasters
S19, EP9 "Delivery to Disaster"Investigators race to uncover why an Amazon cargo plane inexplicably nosedived into a swamp outside of Houston, Texas, in 2019.
