The BEST episodes directed by Kenny Scott
#2 - Cruise Ship
Big, Bigger, Biggest - Season 2 - Episode 8
Powering through the waters of the Caribbean, the Independence of the Seas is longer than New York’s Chrysler Building is tall and wider than the White House is long. The largest cruise liner in the world, this 18-deck leviathan cost some $800million to build and generates enough electricity through its six diesel-electric engines to power the city of Southampton. The Independence carries 4,370 passengers in unrivalled luxury, while some 1,360 staff work behind the scenes in the control rooms, kitchens and engine rooms. Nearly four million square feet of steel in the form of prefabricated blocks were required to build the ship, while hi-tech ‘azipod’ propulsion units and bow thrusters make it incredibly manoeuvrable for a vessel of its size. However, the Independence of the Seas was not built in a day. The 160,000-ton giant and the maritime engineers that designed it relied on a number of historic engineering achievements. ‘Big, Bigger, Biggest’ charts the technological developments that preceded the completion of the Independence, focusing on six iconic ships that embodied the advancements of their ages.
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#3 - Airbus A380
Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections - Season 1 - Episode 1
Nicknamed the Superjumbo, the Airbus A380 passenger airliner is the largest in history. It's packed with cutting-edge technology but owes its very existence to the most unlikely connections – a Mongolian bow and a 19th century rocket.
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NOVA - Season 38 - Episode 7
On June 1, 2009, Flight AF447, an Air France Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 228 lives. How could a state-of-the-art airliner with elaborate electronic safety and navigation features and a faultless safety record simply fall out of the sky? NOVA assembles a team of seasoned pilots, engineers, and safety experts to examine the evidence that emerged in the weeks following this horrific disaster. What led Flight 447's crew to fly straight into a towering thunderstorm? With expert testimony, satellite weather images, and messages transmitted by the doomed plane's computer system, NOVA pieces together the fatal chain of events.
#5 - Lost: The Mystery of Flight 447
BBC Documentaries - Season 2010 - Episode 154
In the early hours of 1st June 2009, Air France flight 447, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, disappeared over the Atlantic. Five days later the shattered wreckage was discovered, with all 228 passengers and crew dead. One year on, a full explanation of what might have happened has emerged. This film brings together an independent team of leading air crash investigators to provide the first credible solution to the mystery of flight 447. Conducting their own tests and simulations using the available evidence, they painstakingly piece together a convincing scenario of what they believe happened. Their conclusions raise worrying concerns about aviation's increasing reliance on automated flight systems.
#6 - Weird Warfare
History Channel Documentaries - Season 2011 - Episode 9
Weird Warfare reveals the most absurd, ridiculous and bizarre examples of warfare from the last century: From pigeon-guided missiles to an aircraft carrier made of ice, trained mosquitoes laced with poison, to incendiary bats. Within the records of strange-but-true warfare, there was even a plan to try to turn Hitler into a woman! While some have proved to be useless, the most surprising thing history reveals is that some of these bizarre plans proved devastatingly effective.