Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections

[Guerrilla]

Just spotted that it's about F1 tonight, never really watched any of these so not sure what it will entail but might be worth a watch.

Tonight at 7.10pm, imagine it'll be on iplayer afterwards too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011dcb2

 

[unKn0wn]

Good shout, thanks.

 

[Sam]

Cheers

 

[alexthecheese]

Nice one, cheers.

 

[Vipernet]

cheers! watching now

 

[Glaucus]

Rubbish only just seen this, hopefully be on iplayer later.

 

[TaKeN]

Rubbish only just seen this, hopefully be on iplayer later.

Up now Acid

Or you can watch it tommorow!

Next on:
Tomorrow, 23:20 on BBC Two (England, Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales only)

 

[Glaucus]

Thanks already watched it, interesting enough, but very basic. Still worth watching.

 

[Muffin`]

The Kevlar/Rubber fuel tank was an impressive piece of kit.

 

[Kerming]

carbon drive shafts............crazy

 

[deuse]

Thanks for the heads up

 

[DJMK4]

I thought it was really good!

 

[Flibster]

carbon drive shafts............crazy

Nothing that surprising really. My RX8 has one, standard component.

 

[alex24]

I watched the first episode and thought it was rubbish. The 'experiments' were tenuous to say the least, and beyond that, there wasn't really much substance to the program at all. You'd be better off tuning into something like Megastructures or How do they do it if you're interested in engineering and production stuff like that. Maybe it's because I'm a science student, but it wasn't very interesting.

 

[Josh P]

These would be more interesting if they were much faster paced - it's as though he's explaining things to people born yesterday...

 

[.Griff.]

This is repeated tonight for anyone that missed it yesterday.

DOCUMENTARY: Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections
On: BBC 2 Midlands (102)
Date: Monday 16th May 2011 (starting this evening)
Time: 23:20 to 00:10 (50 minutes long)

Formula 1. Series 3, episode 2.
Richard Hammond reveals the surprising engineering connections behind the Formula 1 car. The stars of the most glamorous, and expensive sport on earth wouldn't even cross the starting line without inspiration drawn from a revolutionary 19th-century cannon, ancient sailing boats, jet engine fan blades, body armour and a technique practised by blacksmiths for thousands of years. Richard fires his own home-made cannon to show how minimising what gunners called 'windage' increases the power of the shot. Richard also visits modern blacksmiths to see how the ancient technique of forging makes stronger swords - and F1 wheels.
(Stereo, Repeat, Widescreen, Subtitles, 4 Star)

 

[fez]

Just watched this and got an overwhelming urge to murder richard hammond throughout. I wouldn't bother watching it to be honest. Very dumbed down and it was painful watching professionals help him with his grade school "experiments".

 

[FrankJH]

Thanks already watched it, interesting enough, but very basic. Still worth watching.

exactly my thoughts - a little too basic for my liking (although I understand why they did it this way)

The Kevlar/Rubber fuel tank was an impressive piece of kit.

Genuinely interesting but still would have liked more depth about how the kevlar is changed, and how the rubber is bonded to it

 

[DJMK4]

exactly my thoughts - a little too basic for my liking (although I understand why they did it this way)



Genuinely interesting but still would have liked more depth about how the kevlar is changed, and how the rubber is bonded to it

It's not supposed to be a step by step guide, it's an episode, and there is quite a bit to cover so going in to detail about everything probably wouldn't work.

Iv never seen this before until the f1 ep, I'm currently going through season 2

 

[Skii]

I really enjoyed it, yeah sure stuff was dumbed down and frankly Hammond makes my teeth itch but it kept my attention for an hour.