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Jumbo Jet Strip-Down
Series revealing the secrets of the world's biggest machines. A multimillion-pound Boeing 747 is broken down to parts and reassembled for flight.
Engineer turned comedian Tom Wrigglesworth and rising star of mechanical engineering Rob Bell climb on board Victor X-ray, a 200-ton, £200 million Boeing 747. This jumbo jet has flown over 36 million miles in its 14-year life with British Airways. Now it will be broken into tens of thousands of parts in the airline's maintenance hangar in Cardiff, before being painstakingly reassembled and certified fit to fly again. This is the first time this complex process has ever been filmed and it provides fascinating insights into just how a 747 works.
Rob and Tom also visit the UK's largest plane salvage centre in the Cotswolds to discover what happens to a 747 when it reaches the end of its working life, and discover how valuable parts are stripped for resale before the carcass is torn apart to be recycled.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Tom Wrigglesworth |
Series Producer | Lindsay Keith |
Executive Producer | Jeremy Mills |
Broadcasts
- Sun 15 Jul 2012 20:00
- Sun 15 Jul 2012 20:45±«Óãtv Two Wales
- Mon 16 Jul 2012 22:30±«Óãtv HD
- Thu 19 Jul 2012 23:20±«Óãtv Two except Wales
- Thu 19 Jul 2012 23:50±«Óãtv Two Wales
- Tue 21 Aug 2012 01:45±«Óãtv One except Wales
- Wed 29 Aug 2012 00:20±«Óãtv One Wales
- Mon 4 Apr 2016 22:00
- Wed 24 May 2017 22:00
- Mon 29 May 2017 02:50
- Tue 10 Oct 2017 22:00
- Sun 30 Sep 2018 19:00
- Sun 16 Jun 2019 19:00
- Mon 17 Jun 2019 03:00
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