Extreme Machines

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Extreme Machines
Genre	Documentary
Narrated by	William Hootkins
Theme music composer	Monc (Studio) Greg Molesworth Roy Farnan
Language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Louise Salkow Mark Molesworth
Producer(s)	Alice Harper
Running time	60 Min
Broadcast
Original channel	Discovery Channel
Original airing	1997
External links
Official website

Extreme Engineering is a television series aired on Discovery Channel.

1 Premise
2 Episodes
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Premise

The program feature some of the largest created man-made machines on earth. Like a container ship,^[1] Excavators,^[2] and Cranes.^[3]

As taken from the official Canadian webpage for Discovery Channel:^[4]

Submarines

See how today's nuclear submarines play an integral role in U.S. national defense.

Oil Rigs

See the final stages of the construction of a 50,000-ton oil rig in Nova Scotia.

Military Planes

See profiles of jet fighters including the F-15 Eagle and the X35-B, both technologically advanced aircraft.

Flight Power

Experience the exciting and flamboyant world of aviation; unusual aircraft and man's most extreme methods of flying; a home-built plane powered with a lawnmower engine; NASAs solar powered planes; the infamous Harrier Jump Jet.

Carriers

Hop aboard the U.S. Navys huge floating fortress the John C. Stennis; profiling a variety of other carriers from the U.S. Marines to the British Navy; see carriers in a variety of temperatures from the equator to the Arctic.

Mega Trucks

Explore the serious business of transportation to the thrills and spills of truck racing; a look at the New York fire brigade in action whose trucks are so long they need an extra driver at the back; a truck which doubles up as a TV studio.

Earth Breakers

Journey towards the centre of the earth inside the deepest mine in the U.S.; the fire that broke out in the Channel Tunnel between the U.K. and France; what happens in a mine explosion.

Tanks

Gripping archive footage documents tanks in action from the First World War to Desert Storm; the most advanced tanks in the world today; a glimpse of the claustrophobic world of the tank crew; US Future Combat System.