Britain’s Secret Engineers

Synopsis: If you need to build a ‘top-secret’ piece of equipment in the UK, there’s one place many people choose to go: defence contractor QinetiQ. This documentary follows workers at this leading British company on a global journey, as they reveal a handful of their secretive projects: scientists and engineers building robots to defuse Afghanistan’s deadly roadside bombs; British experts who are using ‘stealth technology’ to make wind turbines less visible to radar and, with unprecedented access, it also follows the engineers racing to get Chinook helicopters ready for front line service. The film is one of three engineering projects being examined by the BBC series Voyages of Construction.
Series: Voyages of Construction
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 2010
Subjects: Engineering; Technology
Keywords: helicopters; robots; wind turbines

Name: BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
Contact: Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
Email: BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
Web: https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
Phone: +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
Address: BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK
Notes: The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’

This record has been viewed 148 times.

British Universities Film & Video Council