TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific

How Did They Build That? Fantastic & Futuristic

Challenges beset a sculptural new transportation hub for New York's World Trade Center; Amsterdam gains a building inspired by a mountain valley; a new launchpad for space travel prepares for liftoff in the New Mexico desert.

How Did They Build That? Mirrors & Marble

Visiting Australia's One Central Park, the Oslo Opera House and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to reveal their architectural secrets.

How Did They Build That? Swamps & Swagger

Exploring behind-the-scenes of design and construction of revolutionary buildings in Spain, New York and a university campus in Florida.

How Did They Build That? Boxes & Birds

The American Museum of Natural History in NYC gets a cave-like extension; an arts center inspired by migrating birds is built on a lake in China; Boston University gains a fossil-free, Jenga-like tower.

How Did They Build That? Cantilevers & Lifts

An unstable high rise, an otherworldly museum, and a towering cliffside elevator.

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2 million square foot office building balances precariously on a 39 foot wide base in Chicago. A building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage. And the world's longest suspension footbridge.

How Did They Build That? Retrofits & Airport Glitz

Visiting the Hearst Tower in Manhattan and Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore to understand how they were built; covering how designers and engineers attempt to create a museum worthy of Salvador Dali in Florida.

How Did They Build That? Sky Gardens & Seismic Stations

The engineering secrets behind a massive sky garden in Singapore, the world's most slender tower in Brighton, and a railway station in the shadow of Vesuvius.

How Did They Build That? Viaducts & Hotels

A towering bridge in France; upside-down hotel in China; Italy's forest into the sky.

How Did They Fix That? Fixing For A Fight: U.S. Army Mega Repair Base

Mike works with the U.S. Army in Germany inside the massive fix facility The MAK, Maintenance Activity Kaiserslautern, as teams repair over one hundred Bradley fighting vehicles, then embeds with troops in a massive two week long battle exercise.

How Did They Fix That? Deep Space Telescope

Host Mike Davidson goes to the remote Atacama desert in Chile; at observatory ALMA he works alongside the expert team as they repair some of the world's biggest antennas.

How Did They Fix That? UPS Worldport

Mike Davidson goes to the biggest automated package sorting facility in the world - UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky. Two million packages go through here every day.

How Did They Fix That? Heli-Logger

A crew and its massive air crane helicopter haul millions of pounds of timber while battling the elements and handling emergency repairs.

How Did They Fix That? Sky Rides

In the Alps of Switzerland, Mike helps an elite team install a new cable (rope) system on an iconic mountain gondola line, helps fix the world's steepest cogwheel railway track and explores mountaintop family farms only accessib.

Air Disasters Bad Data

A billion-dollar Stealth Bomber crashes at a U.S. Air Force base-the costliest aviation disaster ever. Bad data misleads a charter flight into a Portuguese mountain, and conflicting alarms send a cutting-edge jetliner plunging into the Atlantic.

Air Disasters Radio Silence

The business jet carrying PGA golfer Payne Stewart and former Alabama football quarterback crashes; how loss of pressurization and structural failure led to this crash and the deadliest aviation accidents in both Greek and Taiwanese history.

Air Disasters Design Flaws

When former race car driver Niki Lauda's planes nosedives into a Thai jungle, a one-in-a-million failure reveals a weak spot in every Boeing 767; radio silence between pilots and air traffic controllers send investigators hunting for answers.

Air Disasters Bad Attitude

Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes shortly after take off from London Stansted Airport on December 22, 1999.

Air Disasters Split Decision

Arrow Air Flight 1285 with 248 American soldiers on board crashes seconds after refueling in Newfoundland.

Air Disasters Dangerous Winds

Three planes fall prey to deadly winds, and it is up to investigators to find out why.

Air Disasters Tree Strike Terror

After a passenger jet miraculously survives a collision with trees while landing, investigators attempt to uncover why the plane was flying so low.

Air Disasters Lethal Choices

Faced with a midair crisis, pilots must make a life or death decision, but the wrong approach can trigger a far more serious problem.

Air Disasters Concorde: Up in Flames

On 25 July 2000, a Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 stalls and crashes into a hotel in Gonesse shortly after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing all of the 109 people on board and 4 on the ground.

Air Disasters Into the Eye of the Storm

On 15 September 1989, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aircraft tasked with intercepting Hurricane Hugo over the Caribbean islands is jolted by strong winds, causing an engine to catch fire and fail.