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Largest Plane: Stratolaunch

Episode number: 1

Overview: Test pilots and engineers embark on the first flight of the largest airplane ever built: the Stratolaunch, a one-of-a-kind aircraft designed to transport rockets, spacecraft and experimental hypersonic planes into the stratosphere.

World’s Greatest Waterworks

Episode number: 2

Overview: Engineers in China are constructing the largest and most ambitious water transfer project in human history, defying nature to move vast quantities of water from the south to the dry north in Beijing, all without the use of pumping stations.

Kings of the Battlefield

Episode number: 3

Overview: Explore three battlefield behemoths that command land, sea and air.

Titan on the Water

Episode number: 4

Overview: Inside access shows how an engineering marvel lifts boats to new heights.