I'm convinced that the Dukes of Hazard (the TV show, not the recent movie)
was directly responsible for the death of the woman who tried to jump the
gap in the Bay Bridge during the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989. In the TV
show the good-ol'-boy heros were always jumping the General Lee over stuff,
without any sign of a ramp. When the bridge in front of her collapsed, the
woman decided to try and jump the 50-foot gap rather than stop her car and
wait things out. A quick calculation indicates that she would have to have
been going roughly 236 mph to get to the other side with a 4" drop in
height, probably the maximum drop that would allow the car to survive. If
the car could survive hitting the other side 6" below the road surface, you
could make it at "only" 193 mph.

Don't believe the "science" in Hollywood.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"cjcampbell" wrote in message
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A lot of these guys think the real world works like Hollywood movies.
They expect to see an airplane silhouette in the wall of the Pentagon,
as if Wile E. Coyote had run through it. Next time someone tries to
justify Hollywood's continual refusal to recognize the laws of physics
by saying "It's only a movie" you might want to remember just how much
that idiocy influences these nutcases.