All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Jumbo Jet

    • April 28, 2019
    • Smithsonian Channel

    Former NASA engineer Chad Zdenek joins an aircraft-dismantling team in Mississippi as a Boeing 747 lands on the runway for the last time; Zdenek cuts his way through the cabin, cockpit and four jet engines to strip the plane into six million parts.

  • S01E02 Power Plant

    • May 5, 2019
    • Smithsonian Channel

    Chad Zdenek heads to North Carolina to dismantle and then implode the Buck Steam Station, a nearly 100-year-old coal power plant built in the 1920s, which, at its peak, burned up to 20,000 tons of coal per day and powered up to a 1,000 homes.

  • S01E03 Hovercraft

    • May 12, 2019
    • Smithsonian Channel

    Chad Zdenek joins a salvage team to tear apart the world's biggest hovercraft and reveal the engineering innovations that made it a legend of its time; Chad joins the crew of an LCAC, the U.S. Navy's state-of-the art military hovercraft.

  • S01E04 Deep Sea Oil Rig

    • May 19, 2019
    • Smithsonian Channel

    Chad Zdenek joins a team that is dismantling the North Sea's biggest oil rig; as the 400-foot-high monster is towed ashore, he reveals the story of how deep-water oil engineers raced to build an enormous machine to drill through the sea bed.

  • S01E05 C5 Galaxy

    • May 26, 2019
    • Smithsonian Channel

    Chad Zdenek joins a team responsible for stripping down and rebuilding the biggest aircraft in the U.S. Air Force's arsenal, the Lockheed C5 Super Transporter; Chad sees how engineering overcame the design flaws that once grounded the C5 fleet.

  • S01E06 Aircraft Carrier

    • June 2, 2019
    • Smithsonian Channel

    Chad Zdenek follows the mechanics, engineers and sailors who maintain the USS Carl Vinson, a U.S. aircraft carrier that is at the forefront of military technology.