Inside Three Of The World's Biggest Engineering Marvels | Engineering Giants | Spark

Episode 1 - One aircraft transformed the world. With 2 decks, carrying over 500 passengers and wings with width of a football pitch, it was twice the size of any airliner before. The Boeing 747 AKA the Jumbo Jet. Explore the underbelly of the machine as it gets a complete strip down and is intricately examined for safety and quality by a team of 200 highly skilled engineers.

Episode 2 - The last of of Britain's off-shore rigs in one of the most productive gas fields. 2,500 tones of steel, 15 miles of pipe work. Now it's to be demolished, a feat of engineering work. Watch as this giant is brought to its knees.

Episode 3 - 32,000 tones of steel. 7 decks, each the length of a football pitch. 4 engines, burning 2500 liters of fuel an hour. One massive feat of engineering. The North Sea Ferry. For 25 years this metal monster has been on the ocean, but now, it's been taken out for the biggest overhaul of its life. Join us as we explore the underbelly as it's stripped down to its core.
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[pinmastr]

I love how on an engineering documentary where so many pros show us how it's all done, then we have the presenter braying the piles in with an adjustable spanner :)

[bobnewton]

I started work at 15 as an apprentice sheetmetal engineer, i did five years in a small sub contract aircraft factory in Coventry, all the little complicated bracketery units, and hatchway doors were hand made by us apprentices off drawings everything glued, holes hand drilled and riveted all overseen by a grumpy old gaffer who kept us on our toes, and then all off to inspection, we even did work on the ill fated TSR 2 which was scrapped by the government of the day after millions of £s spent, lots of work on Concord, Bristol Britania, and various other aircraft, we even did work for Fokker air craft Germany.

[camptube]

Proud of the Welsh lads. You can see the passion. I would trust no one more to do this vital job. I love the 747. Flew on them twice, when those engines hit full power, there is no other plane like it.

[makkavalley]

I like how passionate these guys are and how seriously they take their jobs. They also don't talk bad about other co workers. Great people

[Paulo-pymm]

* safety used to be paramount for Boeing

[kharris]

The Boeing engineer guy, "Number one to us is safety. Safety. Safety. Safety."
Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 passenger, "My shirt and my cell phone have left the chat." 😱😰😨

[knowledgeispowermediaprodu]

The "Clean Sea Policy", is a good policy. You Put it there, you clean it up. If everyone did that with their trash on land and at sea, we would have a much better, healthier and cleaner planet. It like when i go camping, when I leave, nobody will know i was ever there.

[mikemuponda]

"I wouldn't say I relish the challenge, because we are mere mortals" what a humble man with real perspective!

[Robert-ffwf]

It's so sad the 747 has ceased being manufactured. It's so true when they say, they don't build them like that anymore, when it comes to the 747!! I would rather fly in and feel more safer in the 747. No matter what country you live in, if you got to work with this incredible machine you must be so proud to have been part of a legend!!

[michaelvanbogaert]

How they use the CO2/Nitrogen to actually 'suck' in more air to inflate the emergency raft/slide is a truly genius hack using physics

[lanie]

Given the Boeing stories in the news today (3/2024) the Boeing story didn’t hold up well, did it.

[EricHorchuck]

The guy looks shocked at how much it will cost Shell to remove the oil rig. What's he a stakeholder? Shell put it there, they should have to remove it... Also, the fact that they wanted to just dump it in the ocean is bonkers. Then the guy was like "I don't think we explained it very well". No, you explained it perfectly. Unbelievable. The fact that 70% of the oxygen we need to survive comes from the oceans and you just want to dump an oil rig in the middle of one is insane. How many oil rigs could you dump before it becomes a problem in Shell's eyes? 10?, 100?, 1, 000??? Just insane.

[garfixit]

I love everyone in this video that helps make flying safe❤️❤️❤️❤️

[karlos]

Anyone remember who did the door bolts up?

[jjackson]

The captain letting the first officer choose the meal first isn't "a lovely English tradition" it's a lovely aviation courtesy.

[CrafterMaxxx]

imagine it doing a crash landing right after getting serviced for 5 weeks lmao

[DBEdwards]

The flight simulator sequence is absolutely fabulous

[suryakamalnd]

I searched for this for so long!! Finally got the video

[ceessmit]

An inglorious end to such a mastodon. That almost always makes me feel bad. Because. After years of service and with some effort, this can often be continued for years to come. And what about economics. Destruction why. For even more beautiful, faster, etc etc. And certainly increasingly strict conditions such as the environment, safety and so on must be met. Then just scrap it. A serious, in-depth investigation often shows that adaptation to applicable norms and values ​​is very well possible and therefore away from the demolition hammer!

[bloodsend]

Hello @Spark I just found your channel and have liked everything so far. Great coverage.