Smash Lab Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Smash Lab: Season 2 (2008)

• Season 2 Episode 7: Crash-Proof Log Hauler

  The team tries to make a crash-proof logging truck after a vehicle skids off a wet mountain road in Oregon and crashes

• Season 2 Episode 6: Trapped in a Boat

  Trapped in a capsized boat, the crew tries to find ways to the surface.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Runaway Big Rig

  Chuck and Gadget devise ways to stop a hijacked tractor trailer.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Unsinkable Car and Woman Overboard

  Chuck and Nat use technology to create an unsinkable car; Deanne and Gadget find a way to rescue a woman falling from a cruise liner.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Extreme Snow Plough

  A jet-powered snow plough and prototype hot-air balloons are used to help rescue a stranded couple

• Season 2 Episode 2: Unbreakable Car

  The team discovers how to make a car that can survive a front impact crash and it tries out reactive armour and metal-aluminium foam

• Season 2 Episode 1: Car Over a Cliff

  The team tries to build exterior airbags for a car to protect the vehicle in the event it is driven off a cliff

Smash Lab: Season 1 (2007 - 2008)

• Season 1 Episode 13: Bomb-Proof Plane

  The team are given the task of finding a new use for a substance that forms a mineral-rich membrane intended to absorb the energy from a bomb blast

• Season 1 Episode 12: Boat Ejector Seat

  The team tries to engineer an ejector seat for a boat that will launch someone from the vehicle and slow them down enough to land safely in the water

• Season 1 Episode 11: CO2 Cop Car

  The team tries to use CO2 fire extinguishers to stop a high-speed car chase

• Season 1 Episode 10: Long Range Lifeboat

  The team tries to design a new type of lifeboat for the coastguard that can be dropped from a long-range plane to speed up rescues at sea

• Season 1 Episode 9: Fluidized Sand

  The team investigates whether artificially created quicksand could be used in a police roadblock to prevent getaway trucks from escaping

• Season 1 Episode 8: Runaway Trailer

  The team investigates whether retro rockets can help bring a car to a complete halt in an emergency when it is towing a caravan or boat

• Season 1 Episode 7: Forest Fire

  The team experiments with insulating material as a means of protecting a house from forest fires, but must devise a way of covering the building with a blanket of the substance

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• Season 1 Episode 6: High Rise Escape

  The Smash team enlists the aid of a stunt man to test a system that uses magnetic rollercoaster brakes to try to reduce the number of deaths from fires in high-rise buildings

• Season 1 Episode 5: Earthquake Proof House

  Testing whether the technology used to manipulate aircraft cargo could also isolate a house from the shaking of the ground caused by an earthquake

• Season 1 Episode 4: Train Crash

  The team tests a theory intended to reduce the number of railway-crossing accidents, using giant airbags attached to the front of a train to push cars safely out of the way

• Season 1 Episode 3: Hurricane Proof House

  The team experiments with a special type of carbon fibre usually used to reinforce tunnels, to see if it could be used to protect a house from a hurricane

• Season 1 Episode 2: Crash Absorbing Concrete

  The team explores how road accidents can be prevented, beginning by finding out whether crash absorbing concrete can stop a vehicle from hitting oncoming traffic

• Season 1 Episode 1: Blast Proof Building

  Designers and engineers try to protect a building from a massive explosion, using only truck bed liner paint