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The Worst Episodes of Impossible Engineering

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S3E9 Inside the Tesla Factory
5.724 votes
Best episode
S3E10 World's Biggest Aircraft
8.024 votes
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Season 4
8.1avg
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Impossible Engineering Season 3 Episode 9 - Inside the Tesla Factory
    5.7/10(24 votes)

    S3:E9

    The Tesla car factory is one of the largest and most innovative factories in the world. This state-of-the-art facility is the home to high-tech robots that work around-the-clock to produce thousands of cutting-edge electric cars each week.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Impossible Engineering Season 1 Episode 2 - Ultimate Warship
    6.1/10(21 votes)

    S1:E2

    The HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier has a surface area larger than two soccer fields, and is stocked with cutting edge F35 fighter jets. Discover how this megaship ticks inside and out.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Impossible Engineering Season 2 Episode 6 - World's Biggest Cruise Ship
    6.5/10(24 votes)

    S2:E6

    Go inside the largest cruise ship on the planet: MS Harmony of the Seas. A massive ship that's 1,181 feet long and a staggering 227,000 tons.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Impossible Engineering Season 1 Episode 3 - Skyscraper of the Future
    6.6/10(26 votes)

    S1:E3

    Soaring over 2,000 feet into the sky, the Shanghai Tower is the second tallest building in the world, and a futuristic engineering marvel. Discovery how cutting-edge technology means that the building's occupants will never feel it sway.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Impossible Engineering Season 1 Episode 5 - World's Fastest Train
    6.7/10(29 votes)

    S1:E5

    The Shanghai Maglev is the fastest passenger train in operation on the planet. Discover how engineers were able to design a train that could levitate, and reach a phenomenal top speed of 268 mph.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Impossible Engineering Season 2 Episode 8 - The Glass Skyscraper
    6.6/10(19 votes)

    S2:E8

    The Shard, a 73-story glass skyscraper in London, has 11,000 exterior glass panels, a colossal concrete core that supports luxury apartments, a hotel, and close to 600,000 square feet of office space.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Impossible Engineering Season 1 Episode 6 - World's Largest Plane
    6.7/10(25 votes)

    S1:E6

    We take the world's largest plane apart and show what makes this engineering marvel so incredible. Explore the Airbus A380 inside and out, and discover how its engineers redefined the limits of modern aviation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Impossible Engineering Season 7 Episode 6 - Spy Plane Declassified (Nato AWACS)
    6.5/10(13 votes)

    S7:E6

    A state-of-the-art NATO airplane is one of the most complex surveillance tools in the world. Special access inside the behemoth reveals how cutting-edge engineering and a hi-tech midair refueling system helps its crew defend against security threats.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Impossible Engineering Season 2 Episode 1 - NASA's Rocket to Mars
    6.8/10(26 votes)

    S2:E1

    For NASA to send a person to Mars, they will need to build the most powerful rocket ever built. Discover inside story behind the Orion Space Craft, an engineering feat designed to sustain astronauts for years in one of the universe's harshest environments.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Impossible Engineering Season 2 Episode 2 - World's Tallest Bridge
    6.8/10(23 votes)

    S2:E2

    How did engineers build the tallest bridge on the planet? As tall as a skyscraper, the Millau Viaduct braves deadly wind speeds over an immense abyss, and we go inside the story behind this modern wonder.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Impossible Engineering Season 2 Episode 4 - World's Most Powerful Dam
    6.8/10(23 votes)

    S2:E4

    China's Three Gorges Dam is the largest and heaviest concrete structure on earth, and it produces more power than any hydroelectric dam ever built. Discover how engineers reshaped a river to accomplish this incredible engineering feat.

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  12. Impossible Engineering Season 1 Episode 1 - Mega Bridge
    6.8/10(22 votes)

    S1:E1

    The Rion Antirion Bridge is an engineering colossus, spanning almost two miles. Discover how engineers conquered deep water and hurricane force winds to build a structure that could stand strong in one of the most active earthquake zones on our planet.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Impossible Engineering Season 5 Episode 7 - US Navy's Aircraft Carrier
    6.8/10(17 votes)

    S5:E7

    The US Navy's brand-new Ford-class aircraft carrier is the world's largest warship, and using the latest naval and aeronautic technology, engineers and military personnel race to build and test this cutting-edge vessel.

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  14. Impossible Engineering Season 2 Episode 7 - US Navy's Super Submarine
    6.9/10(22 votes)

    S2:E7

    The Virginia Class is one of the most advanced nuclear powered, fast attack submarines ever produced for the US Navy. These technological titans are almost 400 feet long, and weigh a staggering 7,800 tons.

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  15. Impossible Engineering Season 8 Episode 3 - Texas Super Skyscraper (The Independent)
    6.9/10(14 votes)

    S8:E3

    The Independent, a brand-new skyscraper in Texas is a gravity-defying engineering marvel with a one-of-a-kind shape, and to build it, experts use cutting-edge construction and design that pushes modern-day tower-building to strange and innovative heights.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Impossible Engineering Season 7 Episode 4 - NYC Mega Tower (111 W. 57th Street)
    7.0/10(17 votes)

    S7:E4

    The skinniest skyscraper in the world at 111 W. 57th Street, New York, will soon become the Big Apple's third tallest. Using an innovative, gravity-defying design, this colossal megastructure is breaking all the rules of engineering. Can engineers find a way to build this ultra-tall slender building?

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Impossible Engineering Season 9 Episode 2 - World’s Greatest Waterworks (South-North Water Diversion)
    7.0/10(13 votes)

    S9:E2

    Engineers in China are constructing the largest and most ambitious water transfer project in human history, defying nature to move vast quantities of water from the south to the dry north in Beijing, all without the use of pumping stations.

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  18. Impossible Engineering Season 3 Episode 12 - Monster Oil Rig
    6.8/10(7 votes)

    S3:E12

    The Perdido Oil Platform is one of the most advance feats in modern engineering, producing 100,000 barrels of oil each day; this structure is as tall as the Eiffel tower and manages to stay afloat in some of the deepest waters in the world.

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  19. Impossible Engineering Season 6 Episode 4 - Himalaya Mega Bridge
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    S6:E4

    Experts use cutting-edge tech and bold engineering to build a record-breaking bridge that spans a deadly chasm in a remote section of the Himalayas. When completed, it will be the world's tallest railway bridge, towering almost 1,200 feet high.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Impossible Engineering Season 10 Episode 8 - US Military Hovercraft
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    S10:E8

    The US military's most advanced hovercraft is a new feat of engineering.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Impossible Engineering Season 2 Episode 5 - World's Longest Tunnel
    7.2/10(24 votes)

    S2:E5

    How did engineers move mountains to build the longest and deepest rail tunnel on the planet? Discover how 25 million tons of rock were moved to build this modern wonder, the Gotthard Base Tunnel.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Impossible Engineering Season 3 Episode 1 - World's Largest Radio Telescope
    7.2/10(19 votes)

    S3:E1

    Discover what it took to build the largest and most sophisticated radio telescope on the planet. This engineering colossus will help astronomers explore galaxies billions of light years away, and might help discover extraterrestrial life.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Impossible Engineering Season 8 Episode 1 - Secrets of the Supertanker (Supertanker Europe)
    7.2/10(17 votes)

    S8:E1

    The world's biggest oil tanker is longer than four football fields and can haul 15,000 trucks worth of oil. Thanks to cutting-edge maritime engineering, this record-breaking vessel makes its deliveries across rough seas quicker and safer than ever.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Impossible Engineering Season 7 Episode 3 - F-35 Fighter Jet (F35 Lighting II)
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    S7:E3

    The F-35 is the most advanced fighter jet on the planet. Special access into the most expensive military program ever reveals how engineers use cutting-edge tech to outfit this 1,200 mile-per-hour aircraft with a state-of-the-art stealth system.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Impossible Engineering Season 1 Episode 4 - Ultimate Airport
    7.3/10(24 votes)

    S1:E4

    The Kansai International Airport in Osaka Bay, Japan, is built on the largest man-made island in the world. Discover how engineers built an artificial island on top of clay seabed to make the most daring engineering project of modern times a success.

    Director:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Inside the Tesla Factory" is the worst rated episode of Impossible Engineering. It scored 5.7/10 from 24 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on May 25, 2017. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Ultimate Warship".

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