
Ancient Engineering
This episode dives into the pioneering breakthroughs from across the globe that have shaped our ability to travel.
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This episode dives into the pioneering breakthroughs from across the globe that have shaped our ability to travel.

As the battle distance continued to grow with each new weapon, humans put their best minds to work refining and evolving their designs over the millenia to gain the upper hand.

Join us as we dig deep in this episode to uncover how gold was mined and transformed into everyday objects like jewellery and currency, and even to adorn holy temples and statues.

Since their earliest existence in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, stadiums have been regarded as achitectural masterpieces and focal poins in their surrounding cities, but none more so than the Colosseum in Rome.

The story of the discovery and exploitation of the Baku Oilfields in the Russian Caucasus, which forced Stalin and Hitler to face-off in the battle of Stalingrad.

Anthony closes the season 2 sim segments by having everything but the kitchen sink thrown at him. Can he do it? Spend the day at MCAS Miramar (formerly Top Gun), with US Marine fighter pilots at their legendary base.

A follow up to some of the popular sim segments from season one, but this time with a 12 year old at the controls! Kurtis shows us the many important functions of an often overlooked aspect of Air Traffic Control services and Anthony and Raeleen dig in at Greenville, SC.

Breaking down and simplifying all that complex sounding radio chatter. Sara learns how to escape from a submerged aircraft and take to the air with a team of formation pilots flying WW2 era planes.

An explanation of some of the very basics of aviation.

A ballistic missile test by India recently shot down one of its own communications satellites. With over 900,000 pieces of debris currently orbiting planet Earth, space trash has become a very real threat to ongoing missions.

Thom's in Nevada, tracking down world record-holding mathlete Scott Flansburg, who's able to crunch numbers faster than a calculator.

In this episode we examine advances in aviation that include flying cars being developed by Slovakian and Japanese companies. Ride share companies are also considering aerial options.

In this episode, we look at the ways robotic engineers are mimicking the natural world. BionicWheelBot and the BionicFlyingFox have been developed to navigate difficult terrain, like their biological counterparts.

This episode investigates the jobs of the future, and why it might not be long before your co-worker is a robot. As industry changes, companies are identifying ways to re-train their workforce so they can be deployed in new roles.

Infamous for the bunkers constructed during World War II and throughout the Cold War, Stalin's hideouts have maintained a shroud of secrecy for decades, and are now seen for the first time.
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