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Educational film series

Daily Planet Segments (2011-2012 Season)

Titles in this series

192 films

2011 · 5m 22s

The AirBus A400M

Get exclusive access to this new whale of a plane is one of the biggest and most powerful…

2011 · 4m 43s

The Flycycle

When his wife hurt her knee and couldn't run or ride a bicycle, Wayne Wilson decided to build…

2011 · 4m 49s

The Flyzone

Mark Miller checks out Canada's only mobile skydiving simulator.

2011 · 6m 30s

The Legendary Storch

Watch as Dan's knuckles turn white when he takes a ride on one of the first STOL (Short…

2011 · 5m 36s

The Old School Club

The St. Andrews Golf Co. is Scotland's last remaining golf club maker and the only traditional wooden golf…

2011 · 5m 12s

The Striker Helmet

This game-changing military pilot helmet with a high-tech visor is one of the most sophisticated helmets ever built.

2011 · 4m 58s

Tin Tone Guitar

Jon Free makes tin tone guitars from biscuit tins and scrap pieces of wood and metal, and he…

2011 · 5m 33s

Titan Hovercraft

Mechanical engineering students at Colorado State University are building a hovercraft they hope will someday explore Titan, Saturn's…

2011 · 5m 11s

Tree Cloning

Members at the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive gather plant material from giant sequoias for the purpose of propagation.

2011 · 3m 33s

Treycycle

The Treycycle, created by Ray Ackley, is a three-wheeled motorcycle powered by a V6 engine and designed for…

2011 · 5m 47s

Troy Hartman

To test if he can land safely while wearing a 50-pound jetpack, aerial stuntman Troy Hartman tries out…

2011 · 5m 28s

Tugboat

Learn how to drive a powerful tugboat using a tugboat simulator, then see what it takes to control…

2011 · 4m 9s

Tunneling Under History

Engineers and workers in Barcelona, Spain, have to be extremely careful as they build an underground high-speed train…

2011 · 5m 49s

Twin Otter

Take a trip on a new Twin Otter aircraft, the Canadian all-weather, go-anywhere icon that has been brought…

2011 · 5m 34s

U-Boat Worx

This Dutch company personal submersibles that allow 2 to 5 people to explore the oceans in a unique…

2011 · 5m 32s

Vimy Ridge Cave Drawings

A Canadian photographer has constructed an ingenious device that will allow him to document the many carvings that…

2011 · 5m 7s

Wave Glider

The Wave Glider unmanned research vessels are robotic explorers designed to monitor the world's oceans and accumulate data.

2011 · 5m 17s

Wikispeed

Fourty-four team members in four countries have teamed up to build a very fast modular car that pushes…

2011 · 5m 13s

Wind Tunnel Geese

Researchers use the wind tunnel at UBC to discover how the Bar-headed Goose flies higher than other birds…

2011 · 3m 40s

Wind Turbine Blade Test

How well do wind turbine blades stand up under extreme weather conditions? To find out, researchers apply various…

2011 · 4m 45s

World of Speed

Jay Ingram takes us to the Bonneville Salt Flats and shows us the incredible variety of vehicles that…

2011 · 3m 30s

Zoleco

Zoltan Bod is building a one-of-a-kind car to see just how many miles he can get out of…