Given enough speed, they can fly pretty far once they get airborne.
I was once in a Trans Am that got airborne enough to fly completely over a Volkswagen that was traveling the same roadway but in the opposite direction from the Trans Am travel. It was a real bitch. It was in the days before seatbelts, were a requirement and the car had farther to drop than it rose, given the downward slope on the other side of the hill. When it started back down, physics took over and the top of my head met with the roof of the car fairly solidly... and then when it hit the ground - still on it's wheels - the shocks didn't do their job very well, and it bottomed out on the pavement.
I bottomed out just a split second after that. I felt like I'd been eaten by a wolf and shat over a cliff for about a week afterward.
What I REALLY want to know is: what the hell caused that instant fireball if there weren't any explosives in the car?
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I was once in a Trans Am that got airborne enough to fly completely over a Volkswagen that was traveling the same roadway but in the opposite direction from the Trans Am travel. It was a real bitch. It was in the days before seatbelts, were a requirement and the car had farther to drop than it rose, given the downward slope on the other side of the hill. When it started back down, physics took over and the top of my head met with the roof of the car fairly solidly... and then when it hit the ground - still on it's wheels - the shocks didn't do their job very well, and it bottomed out on the pavement.
I bottomed out just a split second after that. I felt like I'd been eaten by a wolf and shat over a cliff for about a week afterward.
What I REALLY want to know is: what the hell caused that instant fireball if there weren't any explosives in the car?
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake