Episode
How Do They Do It?: Airbus, Chainsaws
Overview
How the latest generation of passenger aircraft are assembled; a lightweight chainsaw can have more muscle and a sharper bite than a great white shark.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 2008-03-19
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Airbus, Chainsaws is Episode 13 in Season 5 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2008-03-19. The runtime is 22 min.
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