Episode
How Do They Do It?: Black Boxes, Steam Turbine, Racing Car
Overview
How black boxes survive an airplane crash; transporting giant steam turbines; making fireproof suits for race-car drivers.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2007-04-25
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Black Boxes, Steam Turbine, Racing Car is Episode 5 in Season 4 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2007-04-25. The runtime is 22 min.
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