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Old 01-17-2005, 11:53 PM
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We have several times seen videos from the Top Gear show from BBC when they do stuff with cars.

Yesterdays show was another peak moment.

To test what will happen to a car in high sidewinds they lined up a British Airways 747 on full takeoff trust and drove to cars up behind it across the runway. They were about 300 feet behind the plane. I am sorry that I can't provide any videos, I am out of town at the moment.

The cars just were thrown away for several hundreds feet, rolling and trashing like they were a scrap of paper. Just amazing what a force there is behind four big jetengines!

It was just crazy ROFL

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Old 01-18-2005, 01:21 AM
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that would be a great video........we get very high winds here where i live........sometimes up to 100mph hotwheels of turborides
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Old 01-18-2005, 08:10 AM
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Here is a link to the BBC site where you can see what they did with a Toyota Pickup. And it was still running after the demolision!!

Jan


Edit: Here is the link, stupid me

http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/downloads/
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Old 01-18-2005, 08:24 AM
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Yeah, I saw the Toyota show a long time back posted somewhere. That was a funny episode. So if you guys can find it, I would recommend taking a look. They put it through h*ll (can we say that), and it keeps on trucking.
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