Episode
How Do They Do It?: Beach Landing Planes, Tomatoes, Bavarian Lederhosen
Overview
How do planes take off and land on a beach at one of the world's oldest airports? And, how do they hand-make the national dress of Bavaria, lederhosen?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 15
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 2017-12-12
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Beach Landing Planes, Tomatoes, Bavarian Lederhosen is Episode 11 in Season 15 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2017-12-12. The runtime is 22 min.
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