Extreme Machines - Season 1

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Diving Deep

1 - Diving Deep

Air Date: April 26, 1997

All About Submersibles

Choppers

2 - Choppers

All About Helicopters. Featuring the AH-64 Apache.

Hovercrafts

3 - Hovercrafts

Air Date: April 26, 1997

All About Hovercraft

Image Impossible

4 - Image Impossible

Air Date: April 26, 1997

Fatest Man on Earth

5 - Fatest Man on Earth

Air Date: April 26, 1997

Race Cars

6 - Race Cars

Air Date: April 26, 1997

All About Race Cars

Rockets

7 - Rockets

Air Date: April 26, 1997

Featuring Rocket Tech: Space Shuttle, Energia/Buran, Long March 3B, Ariane 5, V-2 Rocket, R-16/SS-7 Saddler, R-7 Semyorka/SS-6 Sapwood, Vostok, Mercury, Saturn V, DC-XA

Roller Coasters

8 - Roller Coasters

Air Date: April 26, 1997

All About Roller Coasters

Space Planes

9 - Space Planes

Air Date: April 26, 1997

Featuring: Space Shuttle, DC-XA, VentureStar, Energia/Buran, HOPE-X, Hermes

Speed Freaks

10 - Speed Freaks

Air Date: April 26, 1997

Going Fast...

Wheels of Steel

11 - Wheels of Steel

Air Date: April 26, 1997

This program focuses on the fastest, largest, and tallest trains. We take a brief look at the steam era -- at the Mallard and the huge Big Boys of the Union Pacific railways and a more detailed look at the trains of today -- in particular the French TGV with its top speed of 320 mph. We investigate breaking systems, on-board computer systems and the latest in hi-tech tracks. We show some of the spectacular train crashes and disasters across time and take the audience on a time-lapse trip from London to Paris. Finally, we look at plans for the future with NASA's Maglifter concept -- a launch lift for tomorrow's space train.