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Can the jet exhaust from a Boeing 747 flip a taxi, school bus, or small plane? (Revisit of: Jet Taxi) Can a JATO rocket launch a car through the air? (Revisit of: JATO Car) Can a person waterski behind a cruise ship? Note: This is a double-length episode. Former MythBuster Scottie Chapman reappeared in this episode to assist in the testing.
The MythBusters placed 500 lighters in a car and slowly heated it up. One by one, lighters began to rupture and release gas fumes. When the MythBusters finally triggered an igniter, the gas fumes exploded, blowing out all of the windows and setting the car on fire. The myth was deemed possible as long as a suitable ignition source is present.
A plane cannot take off while sitting on a conveyor belt moving at the same speed in the opposite direction. Busted The MythBusters first performed a small-scale test with a model airplane and a small conveyor belt and were not able to get the model plane to take off from the belt. It merely fell off the front of the conveyor belt.
The team set up a boarding area and even airplane seats to test out its Turns out the way that most planes are boarded now - from back to front - is the worst! MythBusters debunks dilemma of how ...
MythBusters is a science entertainment TV program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. There is no consistent system for organizing MythBusters episodes into seasons. The show did not follow a consistent calendar of on- and off-air periods for its first-aired episodes.
MythBusters is a science entertainment television series developed by Peter Rees and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions. [1] The series premiered on the Discovery Channel on January 23, 2003.
When the plane was set up in front of a wind machine set to 50 mph (80 km/h), Grant and Tory saw no damage in the tape. A test pilot then taxied on the runway and took the plane for a short flight at an altitude of 5 ft (1.5 m), reporting no problems in wind gusts over the plane's original rating of 12 mph (19 km/h).
The MythBusters take on a myth from antiquity, where it is claimed that Archimedes constructed a solar-powered weapon by reflecting sunlight onto Roman ships. The result of the test sparked so much controversy, especially in engineering circles, that an entire episode (" Archimedes Death Ray ") was dedicated to a 2006 retest.