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Please don't try anything that you're about to see us do at home ever.

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This pilot can be taught down by air traffic control.

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Then, Carri Torri and Grant get gnarly with three skydiving movie myths from action flick Point Break.

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Buster gets the push to find out the freefall time from 4,000 feet.

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Grant discovers if you can have a conversation in midair.

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I'm so excited.

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And Torri lays his life on the line.

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In a high speed chase at terminal velocity to see if it's possible to catch someone up in freefall.

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Dude, I was in the car at a bump.

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Who are the myth busters?

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Adam Savage.

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That was awesome.

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And Jamie Heineman.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Rise, my son.

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Joining them, Grant Imahera.

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Warning, warning.

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Torri Bellachy.

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It's getting dangerous now.

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And that's how we like it.

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And Carri Byron.

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That is messed up.

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They don't just tell the myths.

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Wow, I can feel the pressure.

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They put them to the test.

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Come on, come on.

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We need to come up with something.

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What do we have?

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We got nothing.

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Some idea.

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Parachutes.

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Misconceptions about skydiving.

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There are a bunch of Hollywood movies that feature skydiving.

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Skydiving's good.

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Skydiving, airplanes.

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How about when the pilot's incapacitated and they talk a passenger into landing the plane?

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That's really good.

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An entire episode about airplanes.

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Ladies and gentlemen, please buy the plane.

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Gentlemen, please buckle up for an airplane special.

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The Mythbusters are no strangers to aviation myths.

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I want to lift off this gun.

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They've made mincemeat of an airplane.

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They've fired chicken meat at an airplane.

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And they've even used an airplane to make a bus take to the sky.

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But now they're back with two brand new flights of fantasy straight from the fan site.

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And starting off, it's an all-time classic.

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So in all of your eclectic careers, you've never gone out and gotten a pilot's license?

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Nope, thought about it. Never did it.

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Not even any illegal crop dusting?

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Mm-hmm.

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Neither have I.

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And you know, that makes you and I perfect test bed platforms for this next myth.

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You mean, talked into landing?

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Let me set the scene for you.

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You have chosen the kosher meal and have eaten it just fine,

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but the pilot and co-pilot have accidentally been fed the salmon mousse.

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Strict them with food poisoning. They can no longer fly the plane.

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And the stewardess says, is there anyone here who will land this plane

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and you get behind the seat, get on the horrid air traffic control,

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and they give you the instructions to land that plane safely.

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So you're a completely inexperienced pilot, but they talk you down into a safe landing.

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That's the myth. That's what we've got to test.

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The life of everyone on board depends upon just one thing.

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Finding someone back there who can not only fly this plane,

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but who didn't have fish for dinner.

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It's a classic scene from the silver screen.

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The pilot and co-pilot are out of action.

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And the flight attendant asks the question no one wants to hear.

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By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

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Can a complete novice really land an airplane?

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You know, Adam, I don't think our insurance company or the FAA

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is going to give us any kind of permission to attempt to land a real plane.

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Nope. I think we're going to have to do this one in a simulator of some kind.

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And luckily, the researchers have turned up the creme de la creme of flight simulators for us.

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It's NASA's and they use it to train real pilots.

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Okay. And before we get talked down by the air traffic controller,

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I think we should try it own natural, you know, without any help at all and see how we do.

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Because if we can do that, then there's no need for air traffic control.

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So it's chocks away.

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And first up, we meet the man with the machine, Terry Rager.

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Welcome aboard.

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And after a brief tour, what's immediately clear is this simulator

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ain't exactly your average game console.

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Those are the size of a small house.

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That's amazing.

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All you're going to find is pretty realistic once you get inside.

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With pneumatics to simulate every bump, more buttons than a whirlitzer organ,

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and a state of the art graphics display, this simulator is the real deal.

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Ready?

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And first into the hot seat is...

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Jamie.

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You go first.

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Here is the plan.

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We're going to try landing this flight simulator on our own without any assistance,

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because, well, if we can, there's no need for a test.

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They've concocted for each of us a flight scenario that will open when we're ready to fly,

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that will tell us the critical details about our flight.

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Jamie's going to go first.

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And who knows, maybe he's going to turn out to be a great pilot.

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I wouldn't be that surprised.

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Okay, so I've left Chicago.

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I'm on my way to Denver.

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I'm on a large commercial airliner with 160 passengers, and I'm at 15,000 feet.

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It's up to you to land the plane and save the lives of the passengers without any help.

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Okay, well, I guess I better get to it.

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It's worth remembering, despite the aviator moustache,

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Jamie has absolutely no experience piloting a plane.

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And to make a tough task tougher,

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Cherry has programmed a night flight.

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So Jamie will be quite literally flying in the twilight zone.

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I have a basic understanding of how airplanes work,

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which I think should be helpful.

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But the rest of it, this is all alien to me.

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I'd say this is going to be a little bit of a rough landing.

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The simulator cockpit, modeled on a generic passenger plane,

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has real instrumentation and flight controls.

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And state-of-the-art computers control the actuators that respond physically to the pilot's handling.

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Let's just start to play with the controls a little bit.

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And it's clear from the get-go that Jamie is hopelessly out of his depth.

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I need to find my speed. Why can't I find my speed?

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With alarm, sirens and verbal warnings going off,

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Jamie's struggling. He's going too fast.

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And with his roller coaster steering style,

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he's breaking every FAA regulation in the book.

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It just rolled out of a 45-degree bank, which normally 30 degrees is the maximum air carrier would do.

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Jamie's unorthodox approach has found Denver Airport, but he's not in great shape.

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It's just too high and too fast. It's not a good combination.

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The recommended landing speed for a plane of this size is about 140 knots,

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but Jamie's screaming in at over 300.

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Yeah, shut up.

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All in all, it's not going well. And even the simulator is starting to panic.

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Why is it telling me not to think?

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On his final approach, Maverick Jamie can't help but try something straight from Top Gun.

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I'm going to buzz the tower.

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Despite looking everywhere, he can't find the button that lowers the landing gear.

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Without wheels, this really is going to be a rough landing.

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Jamie hits the deck, putting the terror into Terra firma.

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A crunching, shuddering skid ends in disaster.

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Lucky it's just a simulator.

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Ab, please exit only by the front doors.

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Unfortunately, I died and all of my passengers in the crew died along with me.

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He was too high, too fast most of the time. He was using gas at quite a rate

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and never found the landing gear lever.

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So he was kind of really at odds with the air carrier.

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So landing a passenger jet without experience or help is nigh on impossible

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unless Adam can prove otherwise.

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The hours of flight time I have total in simulators and real planes, zero.

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Still to come.

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Tori flies like a bird, but will he sing like a canary?

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And we're on the flight deck with Adam and Jamie.

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You're knowing that we'll give it power.

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To see if they can get talked into land.

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Everything's in your hands now.

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It's airplane hour on Mythbusters.

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And next, a myth that's sure to get your adrenaline rushing.

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Airplane, so what do we got?

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Okay, we got a triple bill of myths about what happens when you fall out of them.

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Alright, let's hear them.

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Okay, there's a skydiving scene in the hit movie Point Break.

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And amazingly, all three myths come from the same scene.

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Three myths to one scene, that has got to be a record.

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So what are they?

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Alright, well, pull onto your hats, grab your popcorn,

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because it's time to point the finger at Point Break.

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I know you want me so bad as I ass in your mouth, but not this time.

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It's movie magic at its best.

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In Hollywood heist movie Point Break.

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I need help, come here.

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Patrick Swayze jumps out of an airplane, taking with him the last remaining shoot.

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More than a little upset, Keanu Reeves has no option but to follow without a parachute.

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So now come the myths.

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Myth one, by streamlining his body, Reeves catches up with Swayze in free fall,

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despite the 15 second head start.

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Myth two, after they meet in mid-air, they have a full on shouting match.

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And myth three, the whole scene lasts over 90 seconds,

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even though the plane's original altitude was only 4,000 feet.

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Will these myths come crashing back to work?

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Alright, so what's the plan?

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Well, I reckon we should just get an airplane and go for it.

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First off, I want to test if it takes more than 90 seconds to fall only 4,000 feet like the movie.

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Cool.

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You know why we're at it?

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We should test to see if you can actually have a conversation while you're in free fall.

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Yeah, we just jump out of the plane and see if we can hear each other. Awesome.

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And when we have the answer to those two things, we'll come back to the shop

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and then we can figure out how to tackle free fall catch up.

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Alright, let's take to the skies.

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So it's parachute pandemonium.

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As the team gets ready to explore a trilogy of perilous point break myths

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and like all Hollywood action movies, they're starting with a bang.

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We've come to Sky Dance Skydiving in Northern California.

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Not only have they got 20 years of experience, but they've also got planes and they've got parachutes.

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So it's the perfect place for us to put these point break myths to the test.

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And first up, it's the 4,000 foot drop test.

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The first test that we're going to do, there's a scene in point break where Patrick Swayze jumps out of a plane at 4,000 feet

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and he free falls for like two minutes.

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We're going to fly up to 4,000 feet, Kari's going to push out the human simulate

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and we're going to see how long it takes for the dummy to hit the ground.

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Complete with smoke canister, the simulate will be easy to track as it falls from the sky.

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And doing the tracking will be Grant and Tori.

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Headlight for Storm Chasers!

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But Tori doesn't realize how right he is.

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When the guys arrive at the landing site, the weather is closed in.

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I see him circling.

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They're right there, they just went behind the clouds.

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That's a bird, dude.

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Kari, what's your altitude?

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We are at 4,000 feet, ready to drop when you are.

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All right Kari, we are all ready to go.

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With the cloud cover lifted and the correct altitude reached, it's go time.

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And as the simulate is elegantly shown the door, Tori starts the stopwatch to time his fall.

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Right there he is.

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Look at him go.

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Remember, the point break scene lasted over 90 seconds.

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How long will the simulate last?

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Ouch.

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Oh my God, dude he got cut in half.

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So that's what they look like inside.

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Back to holy split and his guts are all over the field.

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Split in half and leaving a simulated swazy sized crater, that's one busted simulate.

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But is the first of the point break myths also busted.

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So how long did it take?

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That was 31 seconds, there's no way.

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In the movie he's like a minute and a half, two minutes free fall, he would die.

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In the movie he's free falling for a minute and a half, maybe more.

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There's no way he would have been able to free fall that long.

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He would have died.

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So this one's busted.

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Just like our simulate.

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It's strike one against point break.

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So bring on myth number two, where the simulate is out and Grant is in.

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It doesn't really fill me with a great sense of joy to see what could potentially happen

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if something went horribly, horribly wrong.

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Up next.

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Okay, I'm pulling out.

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The seatbelt sign is on as rookie pilot Adam tries to land a plane without ground support.

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And then, Grant bails out to test the hearsay in a free fall myth.

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Thankfully, most times we fly, the hardest decision to make is whether to have fish or chicken.

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But if the journey took a turn for the worse, can a complete novice really take the hot seat

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and be talked into land?

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So far, Jamie's tried a landing without any external help.

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And failed miserably.

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But what about Adam?

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Okay, Adam, it's your turn.

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Adam has an identical flight plan to Jamie, but let's hope the outcome is different.

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Like Jamie, Adam's hardly confident and once he takes the controls, it's pretty clear why.

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Oh, I'm actually flying.

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Oh, oh wow.

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What, what?

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I don't know what to do.

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Oh my God.

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Adam has no idea what his altitude is and with the airport some distance away,

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he flirts with a hard and premature landing.

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Okay, I'm pulling up.

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I'm pulling up.

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All right, all right, I'm pulling up.

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I'm pulling up.

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I am.

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With the passengers now using their sick bags, Adam's speed has dropped so low he's stalled.

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And that leaves only one outcome.

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Oh, jeez.

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Okay, wait.

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Oh my God.

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Oh, I don't think I did so well.

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I crashed.

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I crashed in a farmland about 10 miles outside of Denver.

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Rest of the knowledge that there's always a co-pilot.

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And that I'm not the likely first choice to help land the plane in an emergency.

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What's clear from both tests is that with no help, crash landing a plane is pretty much the only outcome.

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But can an air traffic controller really cancel out the carnage?

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Oh, I don't think I did so well.

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You know, I'm so disappointed with my first attempt at landing without any help that they actually let me try it again.

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To see my second attempt, log on to discovery.com slash mythbusters.

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Go!

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The guys are testing three skydiving myths from the action movie Point Break.

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And so far, the simulator has shown that free falling for a minute and a half from an altitude of 4,000 feet is busted.

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With myth number one down for the count, it's on to the next part of the trilogy.

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I'm a fighter!

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Audio Domingo!

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Oh, shucks!

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Myth number two is about what you can hear during free fall.

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You are crazy!

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Is it really possible to have a conversation?

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Dude, got it!

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Or is that another load of Hollywood hot air?

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What the hell are you two doing?

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We're doing Point Break myths.

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Okay.

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On Keanu Reeves!

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I'm Patrick's wifey!

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Can't you tell?

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Get back here. Swadesy needs his hair.

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You know, with our first experiment, we pretty much busted the whole Point Break skydiving scene.

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I mean, you wouldn't have much time to do anything from 4,000 feet.

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So we're going to take that out of the equation, we're going to go up higher, and we're going to try to bust or confirm the myth that you can hold a conversation while you're free falling.

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And having just seen what happens when things go wrong, Grant is understandably nervous.

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I've been bungee jumping before, and that was probably one of the most terrifying moments of my life.

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I have a feeling this will probably be a new high in terrifying moments in my life.

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Of course, because skydiving is so terrifying, Grant will be making a tandem jump, securely attached to an instructor.

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And while Grant's expression says it all, Carrie and Tori, along with the skydiving specialist Dan, are figuring out the plan.

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So we're going to give you something to say, you're going to get up close to Grant, tell him that, and then when he lands, we're going to see if he heard what you said.

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So this is what we came up with.

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Grant, if you pull my finger, you will hear a tuba.

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Grant, if you pull my finger, you will hear a tuba.

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Hmm, interesting.

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What are we, like, ten?

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Are you ready?

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Grant takes off to test the second point break myth.

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All the things that we do, if something goes wrong, you may get hurt, you may get a broken bone, but this one, if something goes wrong, you're pretty much dead.

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That weighs heavy on the person's mind.

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And the mind that's getting heavy belongs to Grant.

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I'm sorry, I'm a little nervous. Just a little.

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But it's too late to back out now.

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The box is on.

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The door's open.

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Okay.

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And it's a short countdown to find out if you can hold a conversation during a skydive free fall.

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Ready, set, on your feet.

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And Grant's out.

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Attached to his buddy, he plummets towards the earth.

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Almost immediately, skydiver Dan approaches with a message from Torian Carrick.

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With the wind at a deafening volume, Dan shouts the tuba phrase as loud as he can.

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And repeats it over and over until Grant's parachute is pulled.

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Once he slows down, you can hear his screams from miles away.

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I'm gonna land like you know what you're doing.

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All right.

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Nice!

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Nice landing!

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I'm alive!

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Grant may be alive, but was the mid-air conversation music to his ears,

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or was Grant brassed off that he couldn't hear a thing?

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Did you hear that?

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I couldn't hear anything.

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Are you at all curious what the phrase was?

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Absolutely.

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What was it?

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If you pull my finger, you will hear a tuba.

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She came up with that one.

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That was amazing.

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I mean, we're up there and the wind is rushing past me and Dan came in.

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He was right in my face.

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And he's like,

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But I could not hear anything.

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All I could hear was

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Can you have a conversation in free fall?

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Absolutely not.

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Keep your wings level if you can.

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After the break, will Jamie touch down on the tarmac when he's talked into land?

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And is action flick point break full of hot air?

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Flying a plane requires hundreds of hours of training.

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And on this airplane hour of MythBusters,

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it's clear to see that every single minute of that time is well spent.

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Because Adam and Jamie are the ones who are going to be the best at this.

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And they're going to be the best at this.

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And they're going to be the best at this.

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Because Adam and Jamie have just shown that new D pilots don't exactly pass with flying colors.

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Oh, I don't think I did so well.

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Now it's time to see if we can be talked down by an air traffic controller.

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So Terri is going to be that person and he's going to try and talk us down using only the information that an air traffic controller would have access to,

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as well as feedback from us via the radio.

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We'll see what happens.

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While you were busy buzzing the tower, I was turning up some pretty interesting facts about this myth.

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Which was?

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Well, it's never happened.

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What's never happened?

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No passenger has ever been talked into landing by air traffic control on a commercial airliner.

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There's simply never been a case where both the pilot and the co-pilot have been removed from the equation.

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Well, I guess this is another case of things happening in the movies that don't happen in real life.

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It's not going to stop us from going for it, though.

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Jamie's just about to go in and get talked into landing and get this.

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Even though he's been flying since he was 16, Terri has never talked anyone into landing.

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It is not part of any pilot's training.

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So this is a first for everybody involved.

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Jamie wants more man's the hot seat.

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To make conditions different from test one, Terri's added a significant tailwind and some turbulence to boot.

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So now it's down to him and Jamie.

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And first up is a little cockpit 101.

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Screen straight ahead that has the blue and the brown on it.

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That is your primary flight display.

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Terri carefully explains to Jamie exactly what all the buttons and numbers mean.

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See, that says landing gear. I was looking for that earlier.

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Okay.

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And with that nailed, it's time to put the myth to the test.

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I'm at 5,760 feet.

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Pull your nose up.

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Pull your nose up and give it power.

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Give power.

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Lie back up to 7,000 feet.

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Remember, Terri can't see any of the instruments in Jamie's simulator or the graphic flight path.

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And the stress of flying blind coupled with that near miss is starting to show.

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Okay, what's your pitch out attitude? Where's the square in relationship to any of those marks?

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I'm at 5 degrees over.

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Very good.

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Finally, Terri gets an eyeball on the incoming jet and they begin the all important landing sequence.

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Okay, does it look like you're going to make the runway?

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I'm not directly in line with it.

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Well, try to get to it if you can't. Everything's in your hands now and I can't see anywhere.

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Roger.

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At the last minute, despite Terri's best efforts, it's all down to Jamie.

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I'm at 10,000 feet.

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And he nails it.

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I'm down.

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Congratulations, Jamie. You made it.

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Remarkable.

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Jamie's ended up dead center on the runway.

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Plane, passengers and crew are all completely fine.

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Landing the plane without any help, hard.

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Landing the plane with somebody talking you through it?

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Not bad at all.

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I think the key thing to remember about this getting talked into landing is the talking part is really important.

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I mean, without that, all this is a bunch of gibberish.

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But the decision on whether this myth is a birdie or a bogey will have to wait until Adam takes a turn.

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Next is the free jumping. Watch him as he drops like a bird.

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Ever since people invented planes, they've wanted to throw themselves out of them.

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Parachute jumping is not a sport, but a science.

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Some would say it's a science, but as Carrie, Tori and Grand have found out, it's also shrouded in mythology.

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Not looking too good for point break.

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Yeah, the whole idea that you can jump out of a plane at 4,000 feet and it'll take over 90 seconds till you hit the ground, it's totally busted.

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We dropped the simulate, it took 31 seconds before he hit.

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Yeah, and trying to have a conversation in free fall? Totally impossible. That one's busted too.

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Okay, so the myths are zero for two, but we still have to test free fall catch up.

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That's the one where Patrick Swayze jumps out of the plane with the only parachute, gets into skydiving position,

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and then Keanu Reeves freaks out 15 seconds later, jumps out with no parachute,

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but gets in a streamlined position and catches up to Patrick in 45 seconds.

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Well, you know, there is a lot involved in this one. There's human surface area, wind resistance, terminal velocity.

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I definitely want to go to the skydive facility and test this full scale, but before that, I want to do a few small scale tests, just to nail the science.

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Alright, hurry up with your small scale tests because I want to go skydiving.

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Yeah!

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It's the biggest test of the point break trilogy of myths, and to kick it off,

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Grant Hastily carves up the patented myth busters small scale test.

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Now, before we take this experiment full scale, I want to do a small scale experiment first to demonstrate that objects with the same mass

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but different shapes will have different terminal velocities. That's because the difference in wind resistance.

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Now, to test this, I've built a small wind tunnel. It consists of this plastic tube and this source of air.

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I have a ball valve here that I can adjust how much air goes into the wind tunnel.

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And at the top, I'll measure what the velocity of the wind is, and that'll correspond to that object's terminal velocity.

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If I can get it to stop in here, that speed will be what I'm looking for.

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Terminal velocity is the maximum speed that something can fall through the air.

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It's when the force of gravity is matched by the force of wind resistance, preventing that object from falling any faster.

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But can subtle changes to its shape affect how fast that object falls?

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So what I'm going to do is cut out two human shapes corresponding to our two human skydivers.

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One in the arms and legs out position for maximum wind resistance and one in the straight position for minimum wind resistance.

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I'll put them both in the wind tunnel and see what the difference is.

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By ensuring that the two metal cutouts have identical mass, any difference in their terminal velocity is down to their shape and not their weight.

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First up, it's the spread eagle cutout who enters the tube.

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Okay, what'd you get?

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We're looking at a pretty stable average of about 1450 in feet per minute.

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Okay.

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Next up, will the streamline cutout go any faster?

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I got about 2,000 feet per minute.

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Oh, fantastic.

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So it's proof of concept.

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With better streamlining, metal cutouts at least can fall through the air much faster.

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So what does that mean for the final point break myth?

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The myth is looking pretty good.

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In fact, Johnny Utah jumps out of the plane with a smaller surface area, he might be able to catch up to Bodie maintaining that bigger surface area position.

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The next step is to take this into a real life scenario.

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We're going to go to a wind tunnel and try it on ourselves.

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No sooner said than done.

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I Fly San Francisco is one of the most advanced terminal velocity wind tunnels in the world.

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Okay, so we're here to see how changes in wind resistance affect terminal velocity.

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So what's the plan?

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I say we just get in there and try different body positions and have some that are more wind resistant and some that are less and see how we behave.

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So that's the plan.

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And once they're dressed to kill, the machine kicks into life.

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And when the fans reach a speed of 120 miles per hour,

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120.

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Tori's going to jump in.

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I expect I'm going to walk in there and I'm probably going to get tossed around like a rag doll.

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Once Tori stops screaming, he spreads his body out just like the way Swayze does in the movie.

476
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,000
And dude, he floats in midair.

477
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:51,000
But when Carrie steps in, she keeps her body vertical and streamlined like Keanu.

478
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,000
So she doesn't leave the ground.

479
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:02,000
We saw with Carrie and Tori both at the same velocity, the same wind coming up on both of them.

480
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:09,000
Carrie was in a very crouched, enclosed position where she had very little surface area facing the wind,

481
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000
whereas Tori was floating on air.

482
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:19,000
I think this is a great demonstration of how your surface area affects your terminal velocity.

483
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,000
That was one of those fun things I've ever done.

484
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,000
It was crazy. You felt like you were flying.

485
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:34,000
Actually, Carrie, flying comes later as Tori puts his lips on the line for the death-defying full-scale test.

486
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Ah, dude, how much fun was that?

487
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Besides being the perfect example of surface area to terminal velocity.

488
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000
Well, you know what? That lends some credence to the Smith.

489
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000
Next thing...

490
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,000
Skydiving!

491
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:54,000
Coming right up, Adam puts the brakes on in the Mythbusters Mile High Club.

492
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
It's airplane hour on Mythbusters.

493
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,000
Here is time and we're ready to land.

494
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:17,000
And Adam and Jamie are testing the movie myth of being talked into land, and Jamie's just had a touchdown moment.

495
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,000
Under Terri's expert guidance, he flew like a bird and made the perfect landing.

496
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,000
Next up, it's Adam.

497
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,000
Oh, okay, wait.

498
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000
Remember, here's what happened on his solo test.

499
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000
Will Terri help him do better?

500
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,000
I'm about to get into this flight simulator, right?

501
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,000
But it's not like a simulator. It's like real life.

502
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,000
The pilot has died for some reason.

503
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,000
I'm the one they turned you to land the plane.

504
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000
I get on the horse and say, hello?

505
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000
Hello? Air traffic control, talk? We had a flight.

506
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000
This beast land these people safely, man.

507
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,000
And he says, yes, that's my task.

508
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000
On the primary flight display.

509
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000
As with Jamie's test, Terri is effectively flying blind.

510
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:11,000
He has to use all of his years of experience to give Adam every detail he could need.

511
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,000
I tell you to put the nose down, you push forward.

512
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000
When I tell you to bring the nose up, you pull back.

513
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:22,000
This time, there's a strong headwind, and that's making the plane bump around a fair bit.

514
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000
But Terri and Adam keep their cool.

515
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
It's easier when they have someone guiding me through it.

516
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Terri was a fantastic teacher over the headset.

517
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,000
I want you to start your descent.

518
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,000
Okay.

519
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,000
He gave me lots of good guidance about my attitude and my altitude and my heading.

520
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:46,000
He was paying attention to enough of the stuff that I felt comfortable and I started noticing things.

521
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,000
I started seeing my airspeed slowing down. I'd speed it up.

522
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000
Okay, pull the nose up.

523
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,000
He got me into this zone and I was able to land the plane.

524
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,000
This was so much fun.

525
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,000
Okay, the fire truck will be there in a second to help you.

526
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,000
When a civilian like me lands a plane like this, if it's ever happened,

527
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,000
I'm sure the fire trucks are on their way out if only to bring champagne.

528
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000
Just like Jamie, it's mission accomplished.

529
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,000
So it's hats off to Terri.

530
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,000
You are a great teacher.

531
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000
His expertise helped devoid calamity.

532
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:31,000
But as he's about to explain, there's an even easier way to land the plane.

533
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000
Today's aircraft are so sophisticated, there's so much automation.

534
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,000
It'd be as easy as setting up a couple switches and then just turning knobs to land.

535
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,000
Basically, you turn on the autopilot, you select the speed,

536
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:48,000
you control your heading and your altitude with these knobs,

537
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,000
and then eventually when you're ready to land, selecting the approach.

538
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:56,000
Wow, so that's it. You're just going to sit there and watch it happen.

539
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,000
Yes, the systems today are made to be virtually feel safe.

540
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:05,000
The autopilot of modern planes cannot only fly, they can land too.

541
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:11,000
So that means that a passenger being talked into land is just never going to happen.

542
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,000
So how are we going to call this one?

543
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:18,000
Well, you and I both failed miserably when it came to landing a plane on our own with no help,

544
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:23,000
but Terry was successfully able to talk each of us into a safe landing.

545
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,000
Well, we can't call it confirmed because it's never actually happened.

546
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,000
Nor would it ever have to happen these days.

547
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,000
If that situation never arose now, modern planes are so advanced they could virtually land themselves.

548
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000
So we call it plausible.

549
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,000
I agree. Plausible it is.

550
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,000
Dude, that was incredible.

551
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:23,000
The grand finale is the free fall catch up myth.

552
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,000
Is it really possible to give someone a 15 second head start

553
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:34,000
and still catch them up in free fall because of your streamlined body position?

554
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,000
You are crazy.

555
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,000
In the wind tunnel proof of concept, the myth looked promising.

556
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:48,000
But the guys won't know for sure until they take it to the max and jump out of a plane.

557
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:55,000
So it's back to skydance skydiving where Tori is just about to risk it all to get his wings.

558
00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:02,000
Tori is doing this last jump tandem and we have a skydiver that's going to be chasing after him to see if he can catch up.

559
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:10,000
I'm a little worried about this one because logistically, it's a little more complicated than just throwing a dummy out of a plane.

560
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Logistically more difficult but essentially the same.

561
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000
You really need to test this myth.

562
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Relax Tori because you'll have Carrie to hold your hand on the way up, just not on the way down.

563
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Okay you guys, this is the big one. It's the free fall catch up.

564
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:34,000
So you jump out, get a 15 second head start and somebody else jumps out and tries to catch up to you.

565
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,000
I'll be timing the whole thing. Once you jump, I start the timer, wait 15 seconds

566
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,000
and I'm going to signal your catch up diver and let him go on after you.

567
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Alright, let's do it.

568
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,000
It's a dangerous test, so let's get the plan straight.

569
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:58,000
When the plane reaches an altitude of 15,000 feet, Tori and his tandem buddy will jump out.

570
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:05,000
They'll assume the spread eagle position and will be falling at an incredible 120 miles per hour.

571
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:14,000
15 seconds later, a specialist skydiver will emerge and by this point, Tori is already 3,000 feet away.

572
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:21,000
By falling in an aerodynamic bullet-like pose, will he fall fast enough to catch up with Tori?

573
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:26,000
It's a complicated plan so Tori takes a moment to get focused.

574
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:34,000
I just got to remember to breathe, not f*** my pants, not throw up, not pass out, not scream like a little girl.

575
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:40,000
Oh yeah, and open the parachute number six. It's an important one.

576
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:48,000
As the free fall catch up express taxis, what does Grant, the veteran of one skydive, think is going to happen?

577
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000
I'm taking your tools.

578
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:55,000
So we found that just by changing your body shape, by making yourself more streamlined,

579
00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:03,000
you can pick up a significant amount of speed, whether that's going to be enough for someone to catch up to another person

580
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,000
over a 15 second head start, I just don't know.

581
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:15,000
So Grant's convinced that this myth's a flight of fantasy, but back up in the plane, it's all too real for Tori.

582
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:25,000
There's no turning back. It's time to make like Patrick Swayze and say adios amigo.

583
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:30,000
The plane hit 15,000 feet. Tori's reminding himself to breathe and his eyes are bugging out.

584
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:35,000
The tandem skydiver pushes him to the edge right outside the door. He jumps.

585
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:47,000
Tori and his buddy assume the spread eagle position and a small control shoot ensures their terminal velocity is 120 miles per hour,

586
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,000
matching Swayze's speed in the movie.

587
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:55,000
I count 15 seconds into the signal to catch up skydiver and jump out after him.

588
00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:03,000
He just soared down as fast as a bullet and then everything just kind of went white.

589
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:09,000
At the moment catch up skydiver Nick Bales, Tori was already 3,000 feet away.

590
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:17,000
But by assuming the bullet position, Nick hits an incredible top speed of 250 miles per hour.

591
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:23,000
More than twice the speed of Tori and very, very dangerous.

592
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:29,000
Incredibly, after only 20 seconds and just as Tori is about to deploy their shoot,

593
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:34,000
Nick not only catches up, but he actually overtakes them.

594
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,000
It's a mind-blowing result.

595
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:46,000
Totally back down to earth dude and the screams of excitement just don't stop.

596
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:54,000
That was insane.

597
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,000
So did the guy catch up to you or what?

598
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,000
Yeah, we jumped out 15 seconds later.

599
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,000
He jumped and right as we pulled our shoot he was like right next to us.

600
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,000
You're kidding.

601
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,000
He ain't kidding Greg.

602
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Even with Tori's 15 second head start, Nick the chase skydiver covered nearly 7,500 feet in only 20 seconds.

603
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Catching up with Tori just in time.

604
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Right before we pulled our shoot I looked over and the guy had caught up.

605
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
We pulled our shoot and he kept going.

606
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,000
So we confirmed this one.

607
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:37,000
The first two tests might have looked a little shaky, but it's a big thumbs up for Point Break Myth Number 3.

608
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:43,000
And courtesy of a great action movie, it's been an adrenaline filled time.

609
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:47,000
All that's left is for the team to wrap it up.

610
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,000
Alright, so let's have a summary for today.

611
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,000
4,000 feet, said busted plus we'll confirm.

612
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,000
That one's busted.

613
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Alright, free fall conversation.

614
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,000
Busted.

615
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,000
Yeah, I got the answer to this one.

616
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,000
Totally busted.

617
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,000
No way you can hear anything while you're in free fall.

618
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,000
And then finally, can you catch up to someone?

619
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,000
You can absolutely catch up to somebody.

620
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,000
With a 15 second head start, that's incredible.

621
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,000
Good job!

622
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,000
What a great day.

623
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,000
It's a long day.

624
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
We're going to get a good walk off into the sunset.

625
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,000
Alright, let's go.

626
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,000
Are you excited?

627
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,000
It was your first skydive.

628
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,000
Oh my gosh.

629
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,000
That was a great day.

630
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,000
How are you going to top that one?

631
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,000
I don't know.

632
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:40,000
Do you realize that talking to the landing is an idea I got from a fan who sat next to me on the plane?

633
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,000
I get great ideas from fans all the time.

634
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:48,000
So many in fact that we are doing another MythBusters viewer special.

635
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:54,000
So if you've got an idea that doesn't totally suck, log on to discovery.com slash mythbusters.

636
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,000
And if we like it, it just may make it on the air.