Episode
How Do They Do It?: Racing Bikes, Stunt Pilots, Oil Well
Overview
A look at how one of the fastest bikes in the world was created, how pilots train to perform death-defying acrobatics, and how oil and gas is brought up from the bottom of the sea.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2014-06-12
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Racing Bikes, Stunt Pilots, Oil Well is Episode 5 in Season 11 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2014-06-12. The runtime is 22 min.
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