It's a hot August day in Torrance, Calif., south of Los Angeles, and Richard Hammond is having a very good time. He's busy shooting one of the episodes of Season 2 of his BBC America series "Richard Hammond's Crash Course," and he's getting to pitch in on the construction of one of his favorite things: a helicopter.
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"James flies fixed-wing," Hammond says, "so he's very snobby about helicopters. Jeremy doesn't fly anything, so he's sniffy about flying in general. But we were over the east coast in the U.K., and it's a long drive home. I'd flown in, and they'd both driven.
"I dropped James off in London and Jeremy off in his garden. That shut them up. They haven't gone on about it since. They realized, that's it. It's quite useful."