@@TheLilSHARPIE It's called growing up. It's called growing old. Commercials have always been there to tell you your life sucks. Now, they have even more people to hate on.
I loved this show growing up. It gave me tons of imagination and made me want to learn more about the sciences and engineering. Wish they would revive this TV show
@@frankrice1253 I really wouldn't care as long as they could all build cool shit and actually achieve something. I.e. A lot more than most things on TV today. Beats the shit out of 'worlds blankiest blank' or whatever wankery is being shilled now :/
I completely agree. I loved this show. With all the reboots, bring this one back! We’ve got a ton of RUclipsrs that build random stuff like this you’d think casting would be easier.
This show spawned a generation of Mechanics and Engineers. I ate this, Full Metal Challenge and Thunder Races up as a kid. Learned myself how to work on cars and bought myself a 1995 Firebird that im fixing up on the weekends.
This episode is one for the ages. I remember watching it when it aired the first time on Discovery Channel in Europe. I almost didn't believe it, absolutely mesmerising. Too bad this will never happen again. The world has gone too soft at this point.
Yeah, a project like this and especially those teams would not happen today. Or even if the technical producers would casts teams that know what they're doing, there would some diversity commission throwing a fit over the lack of LGBTQ+ and PoC and probably the "problematic nature" of manned flight being a white endeavour. Some viewer commission would probably also judge that having French speakers with just subtitles is too hard for the average viewer. Also for the two hour run time, there's too little engagement for the viewer, more background drama, in doubt invented, needs to be added. Then someone would just shut it down because, "think of the children", the danger of kids copying what they see is deemed way too high, what if someone gets hurt and they sue the production company? ...that's why challenges like this are nowadays rather done here on RUclips and not in anything corporate.
@@hendrikdebruin4012Lighten up and spot the humour! The original comment was just a humorous jibe at the curious and unique mix of reserve and inflated national pride the British have. Any British person with an ounce of history knows dozens of nationalities contributed to the war effort.
I normally don't like the everyone is a winner style. But in this instance the close really defined everything brilliantly. No team who make a plane in 2 days, by hand, cn be considered losers.
nothing like talking to your friends on a phone with crappy audio quality, and then shooting over a grainy photo WHILE TALKING!!! Amazing. In all seriousness though, at around this time my phone had green backlight, played snake, and um.. made calls. That was it. Also, Im was tired of dial-up internet. But instead of satellite, I got DSL!
No taking away from the amazing achievement (took me 3 years to build a 2 seat aircraft) but truth is almost all of the parts and hardware, powerplants, covering etc is FAA approved aviation grade ,materials supplied not scrounged, putting that aside it was certainly entertaining
Excellent episode! Good to see all of the boys getting along. I wish they would have said what was wrong with the American engine when the nice British lady helped them out. Great upload, thnx!!!
On this day "faffing" was introduced to America. I do find it so funny how their expert was so wrong. It was clear the British plane was better. It was so much more simple and better calculated with far lower wing loading. The American plane was a load of scaffolding with some flimsy wings. This is my favourite episode by far.
His name is Dr Bill Brooks, and I’ve had the good fortune to get to know him a little, as well as Darren Arkwright, one of the Brit team. Both genuinely lovely chaps, and both are somewhat uncredited geniuses for what they’ve achieved in building microlight aircraft (or ultralights in the US).
I called the final results from the design proposals in the beginning. 1st:Brits 2nd:French 3rd:Americans (rear prop was good, everything else was wrong) Why do you think biplanes were so popular for so long? more lift
Holy smokes. I recognize Ken and Paul from Kermit Weeks' youtube channel. They are great aircraft restorers. Paul now teaches aircraft maintenance and restoration as well
I thought the US would win that....but well done Brits...and also the French. To put together flying aircraft out of scarp is amazing. Well done to all of you. It should have been declared a draw.
I've always wondered about that pumping conic umbrella contraption from history in the opening roll footage. In theory that should generate lift, right? Can it be done, very light, with modern tech?
Nope The Wright brothers were NOT the first people to fly a plane. Americans like to believe this, just as they believe that Columbus "discovered" America - neither fact are historically accurate. Nice show though. One of the best ever....
Thats asome, but the america team had a very filmsy wing, with flutter efect, so the aileron control will be reverse at any moment and make a mortal spin to the ground
1:31:16 "Everyone is on pins and needles" Thats not a thing, its tenter hooks or the edge of their seat. Pins and needles is a nerve response, and has nothing to do with anticipation.
There is a controversy about who really invented the airplane. Check this out: the Wrights had no witnesses to their early accomplishments. Those events were not public events. So, they had problems establishing legitimacy about it. On the other hand, Santos-Dumont’s flight was the first public flight with witnesses. That's why he was considered the inventor of the airplane in Europe and Brazil. He was a Brazilian aviation pioneer.
I like that the hosts always pandered to preferring the americans even when they clearly weren't good. "The americans are the ones to beat" (because they went first), despite seeing clearly that they'd lost already because the british were awesome, and even helped the americans engine work at all. They need all the patronizing to their self centred ego all the time.
The radio wasn't even invented until only 7 years before the Wright Brothers flew. Do please explain how someone was able to remotely control a plane 43 years earlier than that.
The Americans problem could have been the usual, it's a work of art, the best plane to date , which would have been in a book about it with the usual embellishments of the best in the world, but as the rest of the world knows, that's typical American behaviour, it becomes a problem like this were you have to put something to the test thats the best in the world to find out it was all just propaganda Not hating on anyone just pointing out the things the rest of the world knows
Americans trying to do British humour will always be painful to me. Why is it so glaringly obvious that British scripts sound cringey when delivered by Americans.
I don't know why they bothered doing the planning thing at the start: I mean, I get that this is all staged and that starting with that is their basic format but even for the sake of the show they should have just had the teams make a show of racing out of their bays looking for motors before bothering to plan a damned thing...and it's not showing them looking for motors? ah, they just straight up give each team a motor, they _really_ should have done that at the start because nothing in the episode before that point can even pretend to make sense. as weird as it might sound planes are actually surprisingly easy to design if all they gotta do is fly, what is NOT easy to get is a sufficiently weight efficient powerplant to make it all work, the more spare power/weight you have the better your tolerances on everything else in the design up to the point where you have so much power you gotta worry about it holding together. furthermore almost every aspect of an airplane's design is building it around meshing your powerplant with your performance objectives.
I can tell your a man who knows his sh%t,, now how can we explain to the officiated, this stuff, now thats on a different level depending on what area your in, because then it could go either way, it was for the believers and nonbelievers when it comes to their advertising, I could go on but everyone else has a life except me,
make planes out of junkyard stuff...a junkyard that happens to be full of wooden propellers, specialized wing fabric rolls and aviation engines. its a cool idea but it would be much better if they gave them more time Imo, 20 hours is just crazy. also i don't like the reality show style drama and "whacky" personalities.
Back when TLC was actually good and lived up to its name; “The Learning Channel”. Unlike the vapid, banal, garbage “reality” tv channel that it is today.
You've clearly forgotten (or never learnt) about how the French Admiral de Grasse stopped the British from retreating across Chesapeake Bay during your revolutionary war, giving you victory at Yorktown & your independence. Feel free to thank the next French person you meet, matey. BTW the girl from the British team got your team's engine going, you might want to thank her as well ;-)
wow I loved this show when I was a kid. amazing concept. but as usual the execution was questionable. I wanted to see people build stuff out of junk, not the stupid theatrical skits and costumes. and some of the rules and limitations didn't make any sense. hey that guy Paul worked for Kermit weeks. he's moved on to a teaching job if I remember correctly. I remember watching this episode now! I was a young teenager , I remember thinking there should have been a German team then I figured they didn't do that because it wouldn't have been a fair competition lol
Haveing spent a large part of my life building vintage aircraft I can tellyou most of this vid is fake as a snake with all the parts cut ready I could not build dope and assemble in 20 hours !!!!!!!
No doubt a lot of stuff was done off camera, or else those aircraft would have been guaranteed coffins, not to mention that non of that stuff was actual junkyard garbage, it was definitely was provided to the teams off camera.
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Who else is here, watching everything including the commercials just to forget about what modern TV has become?
I got lost in those classic commercials. Mostly true urban legends.
Totally get you but, nope.
The past was a fine place to grow up in but it's no place to live.
@@orphanpixels Strongly disagree. back then you didnt have to hear about Someones Sexlife or skin color, because none cared.
@@TheLilSHARPIE It's called growing up. It's called growing old. Commercials have always been there to tell you your life sucks. Now, they have even more people to hate on.
@@orphanpixels LMAO Brotha Huhh
I loved this show growing up. It gave me tons of imagination and made me want to learn more about the sciences and engineering. Wish they would revive this TV show
If they modernized the show, l have a feeling the teams would look like team trans vs. Team blm vs. Team maga
@@frankrice1253 oh they would defintly have to be "inclusive"
@@tysonrinker5958 for sure 😂
@@frankrice1253 I really wouldn't care as long as they could all build cool shit and actually achieve something. I.e. A lot more than most things on TV today. Beats the shit out of 'worlds blankiest blank' or whatever wankery is being shilled now :/
I completely agree. I loved this show. With all the reboots, bring this one back! We’ve got a ton of RUclipsrs that build random stuff like this you’d think casting would be easier.
This show spawned a generation of Mechanics and Engineers. I ate this, Full Metal Challenge and Thunder Races up as a kid. Learned myself how to work on cars and bought myself a 1995 Firebird that im fixing up on the weekends.
Ahhh when TLC was a actual learning channel and commercials! I'm in heaven, thanks for sharing this.
3 absolutely outstanding teams - any one of them would have been a worthy winner. Best challenge ever, well done everybody.
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Wasn't even close though was it?😂
At first I was annoyed that the commercials were left in but I found a good bit of nostalgia in them as well after a bit.
I've done a no comercial version on my channel Scrap heap challenge Flight of the Century Special no adverts if you don't want them
I agree 👍
Been looking for this for ages. Thanks for the upload.
Thank you for preserving this show for us to see here.
This episode is one for the ages. I remember watching it when it aired the first time on Discovery Channel in Europe. I almost didn't believe it, absolutely mesmerising. Too bad this will never happen again. The world has gone too soft at this point.
Yeah, a project like this and especially those teams would not happen today. Or even if the technical producers would casts teams that know what they're doing, there would some diversity commission throwing a fit over the lack of LGBTQ+ and PoC and probably the "problematic nature" of manned flight being a white endeavour.
Some viewer commission would probably also judge that having French speakers with just subtitles is too hard for the average viewer. Also for the two hour run time, there's too little engagement for the viewer, more background drama, in doubt invented, needs to be added.
Then someone would just shut it down because, "think of the children", the danger of kids copying what they see is deemed way too high, what if someone gets hurt and they sue the production company?
...that's why challenges like this are nowadays rather done here on RUclips and not in anything corporate.
@@AccAkut1987 Indeed!
I want to see two teams of DEI have to make this
I still absolutely love this episode after all these years.
Awesome to see all three leap to the sky - well done all!
thanks for leaving the old commercials in, I miss those old ads lol ads today suck
The French were just silently focused and heading on with their business, knowing exactly what to do.. I liked that..
This was such a great show when I was younger.
'And that's how we won the war chaps. Spiffing!'
Chocks Away!
@@Felix-Sited LOOK OUT ALGY! Chocks in your face what?
You did not win the war on your own. Many aviators from many countries contributed. One being "Sailor" Malan from here in South Africa.
@@hendrikdebruin4012Lighten up and spot the humour! The original comment was just a humorous jibe at the curious and unique mix of reserve and inflated national pride the British have. Any British person with an ounce of history knows dozens of nationalities contributed to the war effort.
This episode (With the Scrapheap Challenge introduction as i'm british) is probably the reason why I'm a Aeronautical engineer today.
This was one of the best episodes of anything ever. International teams, good sportsmanship, creativity and graft. And successful flights!
I normally don't like the everyone is a winner style. But in this instance the close really defined everything brilliantly. No team who make a plane in 2 days, by hand, cn be considered losers.
I want a fancy camera flip phone now
I know me too especially one with the resolution of a potato!
nothing like talking to your friends on a phone with crappy audio quality, and then shooting over a grainy photo WHILE TALKING!!! Amazing. In all seriousness though, at around this time my phone had green backlight, played snake, and um.. made calls. That was it. Also, Im was tired of dial-up internet. But instead of satellite, I got DSL!
And I want a BMW! ;)
@@dagarnertn a 2003 BMW 325I could be a straight 6 engine, I somehow think that a straight 6 cylinder engine German cars are rare.
That grey Motorola with the digital clock display that was 2.5 inches thick....
No taking away from the amazing achievement (took me 3 years to build a 2 seat aircraft) but truth is almost all of the parts and hardware, powerplants, covering etc is FAA approved aviation grade ,materials supplied not scrounged, putting that aside it was certainly entertaining
the junkyard historically was stocked but the goodies hidden
Yep,you don't find one,never mind 3 propellers in a junkyard.
yeah the found perfectly new propellers in the junk lol
Excellent episode! Good to see all of the boys getting along. I wish they would have said what was wrong with the American engine when the nice British lady helped them out. Great upload, thnx!!!
I miss shows like this
yes I watched this show a while ago
& this show needs to have a remake
LOVED that show.
On this day "faffing" was introduced to America. I do find it so funny how their expert was so wrong. It was clear the British plane was better. It was so much more simple and better calculated with far lower wing loading. The American plane was a load of scaffolding with some flimsy wings.
This is my favourite episode by far.
Aaaahhhhhhh!!!! My favourite show ever. This was soooooo badass.
Thank you 🙏🏼
The British pilot is a crackup ... wonderful!
His name is Dr Bill Brooks, and I’ve had the good fortune to get to know him a little, as well as Darren Arkwright, one of the Brit team. Both genuinely lovely chaps, and both are somewhat uncredited geniuses for what they’ve achieved in building microlight aircraft (or ultralights in the US).
@@DanSmithBK Delightful gentlemen they are, I've had the excellent fortune of meeting and working with them on occasion.
This show and a few others made me me 😂 atleast the best parts
*Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs have entered the chat*
God it’s weird being in uk seeing American adverts part way through lol
Each time I thought it'd been the last ad break more just kept on coming. I'll never understand how American telly manages to cram so many ads in.
28:22 oh there is "kryton" from red dwarf persona coming out! love to see it!
Double the wings = double the lift, more or less. The Brit entry's potential was missed by the expert.
All three got off the ground, but only one really flew.
Makes me proud to be British
Wrights flyer flew around 30 ft 1st flight ,if the biplane had the fuel,it could probably fly the English channel 1st time out.
Amazing what 100 years of accumulated knowledge will do
That biplane was bananas.
Had me thinking they must have told the others not to push their luck
I called the final results from the design proposals in the beginning.
1st:Brits 2nd:French 3rd:Americans (rear prop was good, everything else was wrong)
Why do you think biplanes were so popular for so long? more lift
Thanks for posting.
Holy smokes. I recognize Ken and Paul from Kermit Weeks' youtube channel. They are great aircraft restorers. Paul now teaches aircraft maintenance and restoration as well
Fantastic!
Bunch of new parts, they did play it safe with this challenge.
I would think so, making an airplane with junk parts is reserved for established airlines.
Yes, but it should undermine the show and you’d be amazed what you can find in a junkyard
They definitely planted more good parts that usually in a effort to make sure the special show wasn’t a failure
@@54raceman yeah i don’t think there’s three brand new props in every junkyard but junkyards are thrift store for the mechanical mind
I’m just impressed that they all got off the ground
I wish they make more show like this
The French certainly made the best looking plane of the lot.
Wish they pushed it further
love the commercials
God bless... ground effect
Sometimes humans get together and do some (REALLY) cool things (❤️)
Totally forgot this was one of my favorite shows or that it even existed 😂
My favorite challenge on the best show ever
Frensh had the price for functionality and style
Tried to build a bleriot
Yooooo classic episode complete with commercials!
Wonder what happened to the planes after the show
IDe love this show.
I thought the US would win that....but well done Brits...and also the French. To put together flying aircraft out of scarp is amazing. Well done to all of you. It should have been declared a draw.
What? So the plane that actually really flew and landed right on the lane should be considered a draw with the other 2. You be crazy boy!
@@Felix-Sited Thanks ! I consider that a compliment !
@1:37:00 Oh man, you literally found this propeller in the junkyard. Don't expect someone throw a good one.
LOL Aluminum tubing has been around since 1841. So for a hundred years prior to that show it would have been around.
I love the American's "scavenger atv". Imagine it being an ebike, beautiful rickshaw
I've always wondered about that pumping conic umbrella contraption from history in the opening roll footage. In theory that should generate lift, right? Can it be done, very light, with modern tech?
I went to a air museum in upstate New York and watched a 1910 plane fly. It was the same design as the Americans have made.
Nope The Wright brothers were NOT the first people to fly a plane. Americans like to believe this, just as they believe that Columbus "discovered" America - neither fact are historically accurate. Nice show though. One of the best ever....
which specific dry lake is this?? never been able to confirm but I think its probably Bonnie Claire?
I watched this back in the day. I know who wins...
Where can I find a junkyard with brand new timber, fabric, and propellers?
Thats asome, but the america team had a very filmsy wing, with flutter efect, so the aileron control will be reverse at any moment and make a mortal spin to the ground
Imagine the lawsuits today they wear safety goggles to get a pie in the face
Reinventing the wheel . Essentially .
Gracias a este programa es que amo los aviones, y con 10 y 11 años comencé con el aeromodelismo. Mi sueño es contruir un avion ultraliviano.
I'm surprised they allowed the planes to fly that high.
with no roll control on the French plane, the slightest cross breeze will crash it.
Makes me wanna build a plane lol
Dial up internet!
41:15 the final hour of day 1 of the build
I gues the english pilot was the better pilot, that plays a lot
i wonder what they did with the planes after the show
1:31:16 "Everyone is on pins and needles"
Thats not a thing, its tenter hooks or the edge of their seat. Pins and needles is a nerve response, and has nothing to do with anticipation.
Far too many ads every 5 minutes 😤
thats how tv was back in the day, this appears to be a straight rip from the TV broadcast
4:15 for the other 3rd of the trio for the massive two hour show
Vielleicht sollten sie jemanden fragen, der 100 Jahre Luftfahrtentwicklung verfolgt hat.
There is a controversy about who really invented the airplane. Check this out: the Wrights had no witnesses to their early accomplishments. Those events were not public events. So, they had problems establishing legitimacy about it. On the other hand, Santos-Dumont’s flight was the first public flight with witnesses. That's why he was considered the inventor of the airplane in Europe and Brazil. He was a Brazilian aviation pioneer.
Are the planes in a museum?
I would have stuck with the wright brothers design .
I like that the hosts always pandered to preferring the americans even when they clearly weren't good. "The americans are the ones to beat" (because they went first), despite seeing clearly that they'd lost already because the british were awesome, and even helped the americans engine work at all. They need all the patronizing to their self centred ego all the time.
Its a little known fact, they were flying remote control planes 50 yrs before the Wright brothers got off the ground"
Theory, not fact. Show proof or shut up
@@johnwymer1215 Fact! The truth is out there" Prove me wrong, or shut up!
The radio wasn't even invented until only 7 years before the Wright Brothers flew. Do please explain how someone was able to remotely control a plane 43 years earlier than that.
The Americans problem could have been the usual, it's a work of art, the best plane to date , which would have been in a book about it with the usual embellishments of the best in the world, but as the rest of the world knows, that's typical American behaviour, it becomes a problem like this were you have to put something to the test thats the best in the world to find out it was all just propaganda
Not hating on anyone just pointing out the things the rest of the world knows
Did the FAA approve this? Those are not ultralights and the narrator said one weighed 500 lbs. Or can anyone build a plane from scraps and fly it?
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Americans trying to do British humour will always be painful to me. Why is it so glaringly obvious that British scripts sound cringey when delivered by Americans.
El de los franceses pesaba demasiado o su motor era menos potente.
Me inclino por lo primero
looks like all the scrap is planted for the challenge.
otherwise it is an unusual scrap yard.
24:17 the FAA are on hand for this show
Lol boeing taking notes.
Why didn't they get a German team?
No hay nada en el 227
Is that Graham Norton?
No its Robert Llewellyn, best known for playing Kryten in Red Dwarf.
I don't know why they bothered doing the planning thing at the start: I mean, I get that this is all staged and that starting with that is their basic format but even for the sake of the show they should have just had the teams make a show of racing out of their bays looking for motors before bothering to plan a damned thing...and it's not showing them looking for motors? ah, they just straight up give each team a motor, they _really_ should have done that at the start because nothing in the episode before that point can even pretend to make sense.
as weird as it might sound planes are actually surprisingly easy to design if all they gotta do is fly, what is NOT easy to get is a sufficiently weight efficient powerplant to make it all work, the more spare power/weight you have the better your tolerances on everything else in the design up to the point where you have so much power you gotta worry about it holding together. furthermore almost every aspect of an airplane's design is building it around meshing your powerplant with your performance objectives.
"made from junk" and if you believe that I have some ocean front property in Arizona.....................
Is that old spice ad, a joke? Or some American advert? Cos in the UK if you had old spice on in the pub, the lady's would all just walk away
What about brut?
I can tell your a man who knows his sh%t,, now how can we explain to the officiated, this stuff, now thats on a different level depending on what area your in, because then it could go either way, it was for the believers and nonbelievers when it comes to their advertising, I could go on but everyone else has a life except me,
make planes out of junkyard stuff...a junkyard that happens to be full of wooden propellers, specialized wing fabric rolls and aviation engines. its a cool idea but it would be much better if they gave them more time Imo, 20 hours is just crazy. also i don't like the reality show style drama and "whacky" personalities.
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Back when TLC was actually good and lived up to its name; “The Learning Channel”. Unlike the vapid, banal, garbage “reality” tv channel that it is today.
Nowadays it stands for "The Lobotomy Channel"
@41:13 America always saving Frances ass
And the British were always kicking french asses
You've clearly forgotten (or never learnt) about how the French Admiral de Grasse stopped the British from retreating across Chesapeake Bay during your revolutionary war, giving you victory at Yorktown & your independence. Feel free to thank the next French person you meet, matey.
BTW the girl from the British team got your team's engine going, you might want to thank her as well ;-)
Yep,americans would have lost the revolution if it wasn't for the french.
Someone missed the parts where the British team came to both the French and US team's aid!
wow I loved this show when I was a kid. amazing concept. but as usual the execution was questionable. I wanted to see people build stuff out of junk, not the stupid theatrical skits and costumes. and some of the rules and limitations didn't make any sense.
hey that guy Paul worked for Kermit weeks. he's moved on to a teaching job if I remember correctly.
I remember watching this episode now! I was a young teenager , I remember thinking there should have been a German team then I figured they didn't do that because it wouldn't have been a fair competition lol
Haveing spent a large part of my life building vintage aircraft I can tellyou most of this vid is fake as a snake with all the parts cut ready I could not build dope and assemble in 20 hours !!!!!!!
No doubt a lot of stuff was done off camera, or else those aircraft would have been guaranteed coffins, not to mention that non of that stuff was actual junkyard garbage, it was definitely was provided to the teams off camera.
Obviously you don't have propellers etc lying around in junkyard but it don't take away from the achievements.