2012 Questions on the McHenry James Bond Astro Spiral Jump

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2012 Questions on the McHenry James Bond Astro Spiral Jump

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Jan 2012: New year, new thread! We are now 40 years out from the first run of the Mchenry Spiral Jump stun at the Houston Astrodome.
From Popular Mechanics online see:
which also mentions he has an upcoming feature in Popular Mechanics on the McHenry Astro Spiral Stunt.

Here are the other links on our site about the McHenry Spiral Jump
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Re: 2012 Questions on the McHenry James Bond Astro Spiral Ju

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Sept 13, 2012: if it looks like, smells like and rolls like a the spiral jump stunt...then it must be!
  • We actually were contacted by the Hot Wheels team about helping them with this stunt. We did provide them with some help/ideas on the stunt to help make it work. However it wasn't official as they didn't have time or budget to properly measure the vehicle properties so we didn't want to guesstimate things (the vehicle they used was a custom build dune buggy type vehicle with special shock absorbers, etc. so not something easily guesstimated).
    Had they provided us with proper measurements then we could have helped them refine the takeoff/landing ramps to make it a perfect astrosipral jump like that in the James Bond movie by application of our mHVOSM computer program to refine the design the ramps.

Oh well, maybe next time!
Then again they're 'Hot Wheels'! they aren't interested in perfection, they just want to have FUN!!

Hot Wheels sets a real-life record for a corkscrew jump in a car
from the site Motaramic by Justin Hyde[/url]:
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Also see interview and scenes from inside the vehicle during the stunt (and maybe a wee bit too much blah blah blah by Alex Roy...but at the end of the video some additional footage)

  • Hot Wheels Corkscrew Jump World Record - LIVE AND LET DRIVE
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