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[narrator] On this episode
of How Tech Works,
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we'll find out what happens,
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when you add an engine
to rollerblades.
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What a blast!
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And they say that wine
gets better with age,
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but what would you say,
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to a beer that took 65 million
years to make?
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Cheers!
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[intro music]
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Hello there, and welcome to
another awe-inspiring edition
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of How Tech Works.
My name is Dr. Basil Singer.
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And you're really going
to get a caffeine kick
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out of today's show.
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especially when you get a whiff
of the fine cup of coffee,
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roasted by mother
nature herself.
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There you are.
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[narrator] And
a 1000 tiny mirrors.
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Intrigued? Stick around.
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But first, speaking
of enjoyable beverages,
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one of life's
pleasures to be sure,
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is a fine pint of ale
or lager, am I right?
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Of course I am. So in the name
of... ‘research’,
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How Tech Works,
travels to Northern California,
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to sample a beer that
goes back, way back.
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[narrator] Breathing life
into a prehistoric amber?
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It sounds like the makings
of a Hollywood blockbuster.
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Microorganisms are immortal.
They don't have a death gene.
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[narrator] Turns out,
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it’s also the makings of
a California brew-master.
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This beer is really unique.
Period.
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[narrator] In fact,
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fossil fuels is the newest
“Oldest” beer in the world,
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brewed with yeast
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extracted from 45 million
year old fossilized tree resin.
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This is no ordinary yeast.
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[man] It's out of control!
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This does things I've
never seen before!
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We call it,
'The Mother of all Yeasts'.
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[narrator] Raul Cano
is a microbiologist.
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He’s been trying to bring
ancient micro-organisms,
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back to life since the 90’s.
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Work like his was
actually the inspiration
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for the Jurassic Park
Hollywood movies.
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But this script starts when
Cano got his hands on
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a particular batch of amber,
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from a period just
20 million years
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after the dinosaur extinction.
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We were very interested
in learning,
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about life on this planet,
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and the remarkable ability
of microorganisms to survive.
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[narrator] Even for
45 million years,
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it’s the amber that provides
the perfect long-term storage.
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He extracts the micro-organisms
from the amber,
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and puts them in a solution
to help them grow.
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He expected to find microbes,
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that could be used
for new antibiotic drugs.
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But then he stumbled across
some yeast cultures.
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Once we were able
to isolate them,
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we wanted to know,
what are they good for?
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[narrator] Fellow
microbiologist Chip Lambert,
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figured there might be
a very ‘palatable’ result,
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if they tried brewing it up.
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Some of the yeast strains
looked similar brewer yeast.
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And so the immediate
question was,
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'What would happen if
you grew beer with it?’
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So now, this is how
we start the batch.
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[narrator] Raul gave it
a try in his own kitchen.
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So I prepared a malt extract,
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and from the malt extract,
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I inoculated
the pure culture of the yeast,
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and went through
the process of home-brewing,
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and it tasted very, adequate.
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I wouldn’t say great,
but very adequate.
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[narrator] But it was clear,
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that something good
was bubbling to the surface.
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Now time to get it in
the hands of a professional.
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Enter Peter Hackett.
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He was willing to give it
a whirl at his Brew-pub,
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Stumptown, not far from Napa.
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Here I was actually
afforded an opportunity,
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to do something
that was just, just crazy!
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And so yeah,
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I of course would have been
crazy not to have taken it.
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[narrator] When the first
batch was brewed?
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Wow! Just wow.
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With this kind of
fruity 'gingerness',
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it was, not only was it
a great tasting beer,
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but it was, it was also,
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unlike any beer I've
ever had before!
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Yeah, I was over the moon!
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[narrator] And so was Raul.
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My initial reaction was you know
feeling of euphoria.
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It's because, really I'd been
working at this for ten years,
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and never knowing for sure
whether our discovery was useful
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[narrator] The proof
of concept was there.
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The beer is a good one,
but Peter would now step back.
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My role with fossil fuels,
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was very much just
play with the yeast,
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see if we could get it to work,
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see if we could knock out
a beer that was tasty,
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and see what the response
was to it among beer-drinkers.
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[narrator] Raul and Chip moved
the operation east to Manteca,
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to Manteca and the Kelley
Brothers Brewing Company.
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I asked Joe if he would be
interested in brewing beer,
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with a 45 million year old
strain of yeast.
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And I thought, 'Oh God',
you know what,
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another someone
I'm not sure about,
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do I want to waste my time?
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Joe was very skeptical.
[chuckles]
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The hardest part about
what they were telling me,
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was, '45 million years'.
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One, how do you know it's
45 million years old,
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and two, now is it going
to take over the world,
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if I put it in my fermenters?
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Soon as I opened
that container up,
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I had this huge clove of banana.
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Very aromatic.
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So we brewed our wheat.
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It was a dominant, unbelievable,
kind of a reaction.
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This yeast, for some reason,
propagates so quickly,
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and it's just like piranha!
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These doors are latched down,
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and little vibration we've never
had that ever happen before.
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It's an incredible thing to see.
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And you come in in the morning,
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and it looked like
it's been snowing.
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Over the entire floor!
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[narrator] And yes,
it's tasty, and it is safe.
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These microorganisms
are actually quite young.
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45 million years is trivial.
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When you look at the fact
that microorganisms,
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have been around for two
and a half billion years.
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[narrator] But how
do you convince those,
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that are still skeptical of
drinking something with yeast,
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that’s almost as old
as dinosaurs?
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There's two ways:
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One is to assure them that,
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there's really not
much of a difference,
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the other is of course
pull my tail out and waggle it,
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and say, 'I’ve been drinking
it for two years,
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and nothing strange
has happened to me!'
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[narrator] Meanwhile fossil
fuels will continue to evolve.
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And India Pale Ale,
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will be joining the wheat
beer and the pale ale.
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[narrator] And
according to Cano,
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this all proves that we should
never underestimate,
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the resiliency of
life on this planet.
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Or the human desire
to unearth a good beer.
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I love yeast.
It says so on my shirt.
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But now, something
a little more, modern.
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Our next story features
a chap who was getting tired,
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of constantly pushing his kids
around on roller skates.
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And who can blame him really.
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His solution sounds remarkably
simple: Just add an engine!
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But does it work? Is it safe?
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And what the heck do you call
this this thing anyway?
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The result is a strange cross,
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between a dirt bike
and a unicycle.
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My friends, I give you,
'The FlyRad'.
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[whimsical music]
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[narrator] For many in Germany,
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the weekend means
heading outside.
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For Thomas Rank,
there's only one way to go.
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[Thomas] The FlyRad is
a brand new vehicle,
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and it’s also an,
exciting sports device.
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[narrator] It’s a strange cross,
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between a dirt bike
and a unicycle.
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I think it’s great!
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[narrator] Wherever
Thomas takes it,
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the attention is close behind.
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[Thomas] People
are all excited.
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They wonder what is coming,
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and most of them do not
see the first moment,
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how it functions. How you can
move at all with that thing.
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[steel grinding]
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[narrator] The FlyRad story
began about six years ago,
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in Thomas’s small shop.
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An idea that came
from a tiring summer,
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of pushing his daughter
on her in-line skates.
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[Thomas] Children do not have
enough power to go up hills,
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on in-line skates.
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So I thought it would be
a good idea to invent something.
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Where you have more power,
and can go up,
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with in-line skates easily.
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[narrator] His background
as a tool-maker,
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gave him the skills he needed.
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And within a year,
he had a working prototype.
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It is built of ordinary parts
from an electro scooter.
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And, this FlyRad,
was chain driven.
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Here you can see it was just
an ordinary unicycle saddle,
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and it worked pretty good,
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and the front part,
actually what lays on the legs,
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is a round foam.
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[narrator] The handbrake
and throttle,
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also came from a scooter.
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Along with its
lead-acid batteries.
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[Thomas]Here you can
see the size.
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They are very, very big,
and very, very heavy.
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[energetic music]
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[narrator] Six years on,
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Thomas has improved
his design a lot.
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Larger moto-cross leg pads,
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make the ride much more comfy.
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So does the new sportier seat.
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A lithium iron battery cuts
the weight significantly.
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But the biggest breakthrough
is the motor.
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The most important difference,
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compared to the old FlyRad,
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is the hub motor.
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The motor is completely
integrated into that back wheel,
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the hub motor has
a lot more traction,
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and also a better speed.
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Compared to the old chain drive.
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[upbeat music]
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[narrator] Out on the road,
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that 500watt motor can reach
speeds of 20 miles an hour.
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Even hills are handled
with ease.
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It has a lot of torque,
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and this mountain
is not a problem at all.
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[narrator] With years of FlyRad
test rides under his belt,
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Thomas has gotten pretty good.
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But his driving record
isn’t flawless.
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I dropped over once but
the legs and everything is fine.
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[narrator] As for his daughter,
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her 350 watt kid’s version tops
out at about 13 miles an hour,
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but she still loves it.
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I’m proud of my daddy
that he made this for me,
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and I have a lot of fun
with my friends too.
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I love it.
It’s like street surfing.
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[narrator] So far just 10
FlyRads have hit the street.
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That’s all this one man
assembly line can produce.
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But there are signs,
that might soon change.
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Especially after
the Inventions Convention,
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we get so many emails
and everybody’s interested.
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Young people, older people.
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Everybody wants
to know what a FlyRad is.
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Don’t go anywhere.
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there’s lots more How Tech Works
coming your way.
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[intro music]
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Welcome back to How Tech Works.
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I’m Dr. Basil Singer.
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And now I’ve got
a very hot addition,
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to an already
extremely cool line-up.
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It’s about two brothers.
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And their love for roasting
things in the sun.
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Yup, they have turned
their pyro-tendencies,
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into a thriving
roast coffee business.
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[upbeat music]
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[narrator] As the sun rises
over Pueblo Colorado,
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Dave Harktop is working
on something to perk you up.
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[blows]
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Hot enough for
a good cup of coffee.
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[narrator] Dave and
his brother Mike,
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have created
The Solar Roast Coffee Company.
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- How about you make me a latte?
- Shut your little mouth.
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Bacon two, it's hot,
be careful please.
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[narrator] The idea
came to them,
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while living with
their parents in Oregon.
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So we ended up as you do
at your parent’s house,
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you go out for beer.
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And I just said I want
to roast coffee.
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And I’d been taking like science
and physics classes for fun,
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at the community college.
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And was way into solar power.
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And thought well maybe
I can build something,
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we can use for a business.
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We named our machines Helios.
Helios is the Greek sun god.
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[narrator] Their first model,
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looked more like a
‘found art’ project.
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But the concept was sound.
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The only problem,
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not a lot of sun
in Southern Oregon.
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So the guys packed up
their latest version,
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of the roaster and moved
to sunny Pueblo Colorado.
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This is the Helios 3
Solar Coffee Roaster.
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We put the unroasted or
green coffee into this funnel,
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and it pours into the top
of the coffee roasting drum.
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Which turns around
like a clothes dryer.
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It keeps the coffee spinning,
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and not sticking
so it roasts evenly.
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So if you look at the front
of the coffee roaster,
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you can see there’s an
incredibly bright spot of light.
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This is where all
of the spots of light,
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from about 120 mirrors
are focused.
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So you see the spot of light
focused on just a branch,
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is hot enough
to build a wood fire.
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Or in our case its hot
enough to roast coffee.
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And all that energy is just
coming from the sun.
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We’re not having to burn fuel.
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We’re not having
to plug anything in.
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We’re out in the
middle of a field.
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It takes about one hour
of exposure,
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to bring this whole thing up
to temperature the first time.
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We go clear up to
about 550 degrees.
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[narrator] The guys
can now roast,
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over 300 kilograms
of coffee in a day.
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But this unusual activity,
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in the middle of the field
was making a few locals nervous.
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They didn’t really
know what it was.
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They just thought it
was a solar death ray.
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Now that was just
some unique individuals,
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in Pueblo county zoning.
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Who were convinced we were going
to like nuke the whole region,
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with solar!
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So clearly we’re coming
to like level the whole region.
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I mean that’s obviously
what we intend to do.
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[upbeat music]
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[narrator] After a number
of town meetings,
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the locals got used to
the idea and since then,
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Mike and Dave have been working
side by side like perfect--
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[Dave] A bit of a show off
isn’t he?
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[narrator] brothers.
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Um, well I don’t know
do you have a brother?
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It’s uh, it’s uh. It’s fun.
We have a good time.
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We have a good time
most of the time.
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No. No! He destroys my coffee!
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He makes machines
that make wonderful coffee,
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but the man can’t brew
a pot to save his life.
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I can make a latte.
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[narrator] Dave
may wreck coffee,
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but Mike may be
the most dangerous.
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Yeah I almost burnt my mom
and dad’s garage down,
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with the first one.
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The problem is it’s
focused sunlight,
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and then it’s only really
focused to one point.
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And the whole machine
slipped one day,
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it slipped off and it melted the
siding of my parent’s garage.
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After trying, not trying
but nearly burning,
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the parents garage down,
we moved to Pueblo.
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We don’t have a garage
so it’s fine now.
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[narrator] The guys now
have a coffee-house,
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a drive-through,
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-There you are.
-Thanks a lot.
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Thanks for coming.
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[narrator] and lots of
online orders to fill,
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but their latest project
is being installed,
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on the roof of the coffee shop.
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The energy will be
converted for the roaster,
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to fire up in the shop,
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and any energy left over,
will go back into the grid.
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I don’t like being a taker.
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I want to be a producer.
A provider.
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I’ve always liked burning stuff
with a magnifying glass,
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so it kind of translates,
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from some of my earliest
childhood memories.
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[narrator] From torching
things as kids,
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to building a coffee empire,
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these brothers are invested
in each other.
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Like it or hate it.
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My brother's always
there with me every day.
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Ordinarily you’d put
the milk in first.
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I know that.
Just thought I’d change it up.
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[narrator] These two certainly
aren’t making a solar death ray,
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but they are building a strong
cult of solar coffee fanatics,
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one latte at a time.
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And finally,
the Harrier Jump Jet is famous,
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for combining what helicopters
and fighter jets do best,
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in one impressive package.
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And it makes it one
of the most iconic,
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military vehicles ever built.
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Getting the chance to pilot one,
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isn’t something
the Joe gets to do.
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But here on How Tech Works,
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when it comes to
extreme adventures,
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our motto is: Where there’s
a will, there’s a way.
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[energetic music]
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[narrator] Take a good look.
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The landing you are
about to witness,
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is 30 years in the making.
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The challenge? Getting
this airplane, to do this:
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Transition from flight
to a hover, and then land.
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The ability to take off
and land vertically,
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are the Harrier Jump
Jet’s signature moves.
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They are also Ewald Schuster’s
key hurdles.
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[Ewald] It could stall,
it may not have enough power,
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due to the altitude
and the heat up here.
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I could come in and it could
end up sinking very quick,
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even at full throttle.
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[narrator] Crashing
is a real possibility.
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We have to risk everything.
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So if we are
at the point to fly,
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it is at the point of
risking everything.
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[narrator] Ewald
has been obsessed,
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with the Harrier Jump Jet
for far too long,
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to let fear ground him.
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I was around age nine.
I went to an air show,
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over Lake Ontario
and I saw a Harrier there,
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and I just thought to myself
that is what I have to do.
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[narrator] So today his focus,
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is on bringing in
this baby smoothly.
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Doesn’t mean he isn’t
worried though.
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[Ewald] Checking the wind.
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Well, I've never done it before.
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So I don't know, we'll see,
we'll know in a few minutes.
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[narrator] Oh and maybe
I didn’t mention,
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the plane Ewald is piloting,
is a model Jump Jet.
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[Ewald] So the model
it's 1/6th scale.
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90 inch fuselage,
60 inch wingspan.
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Major components
really are the engine,
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with the 4 rotating nozzles.
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It has all the puffer jets,
just like the full-sized has.
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One in each wing tip,
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one in the nose
and two in the tail.
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And that is what controls
it in the hover.
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[Ewald] Is it centered?
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[woman] Yeah.
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[narrator] Getting his model
to perform like the real thing,
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has been a 30 year
war against gravity.
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So you’ve got to see this.
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This was a nozzle I made
when I was 13 years old.
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This was for the first
attempt of the Harrier,
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that I made.
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That was just a little
25 sized-ducted fan,
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and a light fuselage.
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This was one of the nozzles
that was on that airplane.
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For some reason it never got
thrown out and I still have it.
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[narrator] That battle
has come at great cost.
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7, 8 thousand dollars a year
for the last 14 years.
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[narrator] Caused
him physical pain.
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I have really bad
tendinitis now in my arms,
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and shoulders because
of all the sanding.
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I can't do it anymore.
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[narrator] And raised
more than a few questions,
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about his sanity.
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"Only those who see the
invisible can do the impossible"
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It's kind of what
keeps me going.
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[narrator] With a finished
Harrier model,
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ready to take flight,
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I’m pretty nervous,
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but I’ve got to get it
done sooner or later.
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00:19:44,947 --> 00:19:46,815
[narrator] Ewald
is finally winning.
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All the key components
are there and working.
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It's just a matter of pushing
that throttle forward,
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and moving
those nozzles forward.
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[narrator] At least that's
he hopes to prove,
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with today’s landing.
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[Ewald] It has to
be done properly.
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If not I just won't
be happy with it.
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00:20:02,664 --> 00:20:04,833
[narrator] First he's got
to wait for the fog to clear.
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[Ewald] The grey color of that
airplane will camouflage itself,
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in there pretty good,
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and if I don't have
visual sight of it, it is over.
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00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:13,809
[narrator] And his nerves
to settle.
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00:20:13,809 --> 00:20:15,210
Alright, let's do it.
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[narrator] Then just like that,
he’s ready.
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So we are going to take
off from left to right.
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We are going to fly around
the other end of the field,
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the far side of the field
and if it trims out okay,
449
00:20:25,521 --> 00:20:27,155
we'll go to the other end,
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put the nozzles down,
and we'll go for it right away.
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[zooms off]
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[narrator] After a conventional
take-off,
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the countdown begins.
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All eyes are on the sky as
the aircraft circles smoothly.
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Ewald is hard to read.
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00:20:47,876 --> 00:20:49,611
He brings the Harrier in,
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he's attempting the hover,
458
00:20:52,481 --> 00:20:58,320
there we go, nose up a bit,
coming down, oh and crashes.
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00:21:02,324 --> 00:21:05,594
It was actually pretty good.
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00:21:07,663 --> 00:21:09,031
Everything is still okay
with it.
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00:21:09,031 --> 00:21:11,700
[narrator] Ewald is actually
quite happy with that,
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00:21:11,700 --> 00:21:13,802
because there’s no
expensive damage done.
463
00:21:13,802 --> 00:21:15,871
So it is just the outrigger
that broke off,
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00:21:15,871 --> 00:21:17,506
and bent landing
gear and that's it.
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00:21:17,506 --> 00:21:19,241
[narrator] And the plane
performed.
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00:21:19,608 --> 00:21:22,144
It flew great, it actually
flew real nicely,
467
00:21:22,144 --> 00:21:23,779
just not sure why it pitched up,
468
00:21:23,779 --> 00:21:26,181
I am just going to have to be
more aggressive next time.
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00:21:26,181 --> 00:21:28,684
Once the nozzles are down
just put more down elevator,
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00:21:28,684 --> 00:21:31,486
open up the rear puffers
to keep the nose down.
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00:21:32,387 --> 00:21:35,090
[narrator] Quit now?
Not a chance.
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00:21:35,624 --> 00:21:36,959
Yes that was actually
pretty good.
473
00:21:36,959 --> 00:21:39,995
So it lives for another
flight at least.
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00:21:39,995 --> 00:21:44,099
One more, hopefully more,
but we can have one anyway.
475
00:21:44,566 --> 00:21:49,171
[narrator] Go on then. Ewald!
Ewald! Where are you going?
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00:21:49,171 --> 00:21:54,443
Ewald! Come back!
Oh do it again, please Ewald?
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00:21:54,443 --> 00:21:57,946
[groans] Back to the workshop!
478
00:21:58,981 --> 00:22:01,350
Unfortunately that
is it for today.
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00:22:01,350 --> 00:22:03,685
Thanks very much for watching,
How Tech Works.
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Until next time,
I’m Basil Singer.
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[ending music]
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