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Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship - a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated 50, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room.

For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful method, the "engineering method", is an all but hidden process that few of us have heard of—let alone understand—but that influences every aspect of our lives.

EngineerGuy Stories is Bill Hammack — the EngineerGuy — telling the stories engineering usually leaves out: the wrong turns, the dead ends, and the way a craft so often runs ahead of the science meant to explain it. Each episode takes a single object or idea and follows it where it wants to go, fifteen minutes at a time, told the way you'd tell it to one person across a table. No interviews, no hurry — just how engineers actually work, and why the real story is almost always stranger than the tidy version.