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Henry Kingi (born December 2, 1943) is an American stuntman and actor. As a stuntman he has worked in films like Fast Five (2011). His acting roles include Goody in Car Wash (1976), Shell in Earth Star Voyager (1988), the mean Indian in Far Out Man (1990), Kungai Demon in Parting Gifts, an episode of Angel (1999), and George in From Mexico with Love (2009).
Spinning event at night. Spinning is a South African motorsport that involves driving cars at speed in circles and performing stunts in and out of the car. It originated in Soweto in the late 1980s, and was performed as a funeral ritual in which a car was spun around to honor the deceased.
Heirs to the Dare also featured stunt performers Henry "Pitbull" Rife and Super Joe Reed. [9] The Discovery Channel describes Blackwell as "best known for breaking Evel Knievel's jump records for both cars and buses. He's known as 'king of the Harley' and he's had some really bad falls with 42 broken bones, to date.
In his career, Hanna estimated he crashed over 3,000 cars and jumped a collective 12 miles through the air doing the dive bomber stunt. [3] As Dusty Russell, he once attempted to dive bomb a car 200 feet over a Sacramento lake, a stunt that had already claimed two lives, but failed. Equipping his stock car with a breathing apparatus should he ...
Carter returned to stunt driving and on July 1, 1983, attempted to jump a pond in Peterborough, Ontario. The jump failed when the car began to fishtail on the runway and ramp, which ultimately put him in the water. Carter vowed to try the jump again and on September 5, 1983, made another attempt.
Stunt Show Spectacular), was a stunt show performed at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris and at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The show was designed to be and look like a movie set, and the show is dedicated to show the process of how action movies are created.
The narrowest J-turn was performed in a Renault Twingo, between barriers set 3.78 metres (12.4 ft) apart.The diagonal length of the car, 3.70 metres (12.1 ft), meant stunt driver Terry Grant had a gap of 4 centimetres (1.6 in) on each side.
[4] The show was an exhibition of auto stunt driving, and became so successful Chitwood cut back his racing endeavors significantly. [ 6 ] Often called "Hell Drivers," Chitwood had five units that for more than forty years toured across North America , thrilling audiences in large and small towns alike with death-defying automobile stunts.