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Rocket City Rednecks

Rocket City Rednecks

Description: Being labelled a redneck is a badge of honour for the five Huntsville, Alabama, residents featured in this series. Perhaps it's because, in actuality, they are a heck of a lot smarter than people may think. Led by Travis Taylor, a research scientist with the Department of Defence who holds five advanced degrees, the crew spends weekends mixing a little hillbilly ingenuity with advanced engineering and physics. Along with his father, brother-in-law, nephew and best friend, Travis attempts to find creative solutions to real-world problems ... like using moonshine to fuel a rocket or hydropower to run a kegerator. They also rethink some of the military's defence technologies in their application of beer cans to bombproof a Humvee and junkyard parts to construct `Iron Man' suits that could protect soldiers. Now, you may be a redneck if ... .
Genre: Reality-TV
Year Released: 2011
Number of seasons: 2
Number of episodes: 33
First episode air date: September 28, 2011
Networks: National Geographic, National Geographic Society
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