VIDEO: Flying car powered by, uh, firehoses?
We're not sure where this takes place (it looks like it's probably somewhere in Europe), why it's being done or even what kind of car it is. But we do enjoy watching the pressure from about eight firehoses lift a small red hatchback off the ground. A fire brigade training exercise? A firemen's fraternity house prank? Idle hands doing the devil's work? It doesn't matter! It's a freaking car suspended on water.
However, if it turns out the car in question is by chance a Yugo, we think next time, just for funsies, and maybe to make the whole stunt more relevant, it should be filled with gasoline and set on fire. Just saying.
[Source: Live Leak via Reddit]
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J2 12:14PM (9/14/2007)
I think the car is a MK1 Opel Corsa..although i´m not so sure about the location...
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fd 12:21PM (9/14/2007)
Opel Corsa, 1st gen.
Somewhere in Europe. Not in BE, NL, DE, FR I would say based on the fact that I don't understand the language spoken at the end of the clip. Kinda sounds like German, but don't recognize anything.
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epp_b 12:27PM (9/14/2007)
There's only one possible response to this: FREAKING AWESOME!!
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iamhoff 12:43PM (9/14/2007)
Hoon of the year!
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Alex 1:30PM (9/14/2007)
This is one of those events when you just sit back and watch and wish you were there. Like the guy built the trebuche big enought to launch cars. Who doesn't want to whitness that first hand?
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fd 1:36PM (9/14/2007)
Wolharig Badeendje:
You sure?
I guess it's a bit too inaudible & short for me to understand it.
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Wolharig badeendje 1:46PM (9/14/2007)
Yes I'm sure, I'm from the Netherland myself and I have seen this video before on a Duth website
jwer 1:47PM (9/14/2007)
Wow, what a gentle descent! I'd say this baby is ready for production!
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Daniel Byron 3:49PM (9/14/2007)
NICE! When are these going into production! :-)
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Takeo 5:29PM (9/14/2007)
I definitely have to call BS on this one. The fact that the hoses can provide enough lift isn't the issue: it's stability. Whenever you try and lift something using direct vertical thrust stability and balancing the thrust from all the sources makes for a very sticky problem. While the problem is dealt with gyros, I doubt they had gyroscopic controls on the valves for the firehoses. Normally the slightest lean in any direction would cause the entire thing to spin out of control.
That's why planes the like the harrier had a high number of crashes at the beginning of it's career. It's like standing on a beach ball to keep it level.
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HyperLemon 6:13PM (9/14/2007)
It sounds very German to me...something like "Ich glaub' das wars, die ham'..." and then I'm not sure but something like "auch jetzt genug ..." and the last word I can't really say, video ends there, might be "von".
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Dan 7:23PM (9/14/2007)
The car is a mk2 Vauxhall Nova (Opel Corsa) - 1990 onwards - you can tell as it has a front bumper and a different grill to the mk1's which only had a bump strip
Dan
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HigherBe1ng 9:46PM (9/14/2007)
Being that I am german, I can definateably confirm that its German.
its the german Feuerwehr that was holding this
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Wolharig badeendje 8:41AM (9/15/2007)
that's in the Netherlands
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SKSeoul 3:08AM (9/17/2007)
Looks like its somewhere in the Netherlands..and I am sure these are Dutch fire fighters + trucks.
Last sentence of the video is definitely Dutch.
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dean 10:15PM (9/17/2007)
Looks to be some kind of rescue platform. Could hook up hoses to a platform, power it up, pile on some people. But then again, ladders do the same thing, and get people down in a much more boring (albeit safe) fashion. Meh, publicity stunt?
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jason 6:47PM (12/26/2007)
I have to agree with Takeo - it seems very hard to believe that this could possible remain stable.
Jason
htt://www.libertyauto.com
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