Extreme machines

Looks at many different types of extreme motorcycles, including racers, street superbikes, dirt bikes, choppers, and drag racers.

Photographs and text provide an introduction to monster trucks and their drivers.

Describes different kinds of submersibles, ships that can go underwater, including submarines, bathyscaphes, and the ABE or Autonomous Benthic Explorer.

Briefly describes some unusual land vehicles, such as all-terrain vehicles, Indy cars, jet cars, dragsters, tanks, and solar cars.

Describes special machines such as snowmobiles, snow plows, ice breakers, and tundra buggies which are used to remove or travel on ice and snow.

Describes and presents statistics on several different kinds of planes, including jetliners, megalifters, amphibious planes, experimental planes, and others.

Provides photographs, facts, and statistics about a variety of cars, looking at big, small, and supersized vehicles, including hot rods, stretch limos, racers and dragsters, and others.

Describes various machines that have been used in outer space, including the space shuttle, Skylab space station, satellites, and unmanned space probes.

Briefly describes some of the machines that fly in the air, including the Wright brothers' flying machine, helicopters, ultralights, dirigibles, hurricane hunting planes, supersonic airplanes, and others.

Describes various water vehicles and their uses, including an aircraft carrier, hydrofoil, and airboat.