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it's clear that this one is not the best jump... What I really like is when Mickael lands, you often see him bouncing and being shaken (always with exaggeration !).
KITT must have really strong suspensions to resist to such bashing !
In real life, if a car would be able to do that kind of stuff, i guess it would be a wreck.
KITT must have really strong suspensions to resist to such bashing !
In real life, if a car would be able to do that kind of stuff, i guess it would be a wreck.
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Yeah I’m always amazed at how those seats are so springy.
Are real TA seats that bouncy?
Are real TA seats that bouncy?
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By the way guys, here's some car-jumping info straight from Jack Gill & the "Dukes" stuntmen:
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The nosedives are actually kind of good, from a stuntman's perspective. When the car is jumped that big, hitting squarely on all four wheels is a worse hit than a nosedive.
As Corey Eubanks put it:
"Say you're gonna be in a car, and dropped from 25 feet: Would you rather be dropped flat, or dropped nose-down?
Nose-down is the way to go, because that way you get a few feet of metal to cushion the impact. Dropping flat hurts more."
Although a really big nosedive isn't so good, just landing front-first is better than flat.
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And another thing: There's more to a nosedive than just lack of trunk-weight.
When you go up the ramp, it makes a difference whether you're gassing it or not.
Flooring it produces a bit of a "wheelie" effect, and puts the front-end up.
Lifting off the gas causes the engine-braking effect to pull the front-end down.
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The nosedives are actually kind of good, from a stuntman's perspective. When the car is jumped that big, hitting squarely on all four wheels is a worse hit than a nosedive.
As Corey Eubanks put it:
"Say you're gonna be in a car, and dropped from 25 feet: Would you rather be dropped flat, or dropped nose-down?
Nose-down is the way to go, because that way you get a few feet of metal to cushion the impact. Dropping flat hurts more."
Although a really big nosedive isn't so good, just landing front-first is better than flat.
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And another thing: There's more to a nosedive than just lack of trunk-weight.
When you go up the ramp, it makes a difference whether you're gassing it or not.
Flooring it produces a bit of a "wheelie" effect, and puts the front-end up.
Lifting off the gas causes the engine-braking effect to pull the front-end down.
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yeah, it was when they were at the top of a parking lot, but I'm not sure.
There was also an episode where Mickael and KITT were trapped in a tunnel blocked up with rocks; Mickael wanted to use the Turbo Boost in order to get a mega-acceleration to smash the rocks but KITT said something like "we're gonna hit the rocks at more than 300 miles/hour, we'll never survive !" (translated from french, so it may be inexact). Finally Mickael doesn't listen KITT and go. Then it ends with a terrific jump in the air!
Isn't it the episode with Goliath ?
There was also an episode where Mickael and KITT were trapped in a tunnel blocked up with rocks; Mickael wanted to use the Turbo Boost in order to get a mega-acceleration to smash the rocks but KITT said something like "we're gonna hit the rocks at more than 300 miles/hour, we'll never survive !" (translated from french, so it may be inexact). Finally Mickael doesn't listen KITT and go. Then it ends with a terrific jump in the air!
Isn't it the episode with Goliath ?
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Hi guys,
The longest turbo boost jump in reality was 145 feet long and 20 feet high. Some of the crazy length jumps are miniatures and look exactly like a miniature. Most of my jumps were between 110 and 140 feet long. The jump you see over the river was a kid that came in on the show and sold the producers on a VW powered Kitt car for jumps. I was against it from the start. It came apart on the landing and jumped terribly. We fired the guy after 3 weeks.
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The longest turbo boost jump in reality was 145 feet long and 20 feet high. Some of the crazy length jumps are miniatures and look exactly like a miniature. Most of my jumps were between 110 and 140 feet long. The jump you see over the river was a kid that came in on the show and sold the producers on a VW powered Kitt car for jumps. I was against it from the start. It came apart on the landing and jumped terribly. We fired the guy after 3 weeks.
Jack Gill
(Howdy, Mr. Gill! I was in Covington in June!)
A VW chassis?
I thought there were some jump shots that looked like a fiberglass-shell on a dune buggy!
That explains that. Using it must have been a real mess.
I can't imagine how you'd get a buggy-chassis to fly correctly.
Much less vehicle weight, and all of it in the rear . . .
Geez, the center-of-gravity on it wouldn't be anywhere near a normal car.
Not to mention the lack of body sheetmetal . . .
It wouldn't have anything to "crumple up" between the frame/rollcage and the ground!
That buggy must have really hurt on landing. I don't see how it could be safe on any big jump.
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A VW chassis?
I thought there were some jump shots that looked like a fiberglass-shell on a dune buggy!
That explains that. Using it must have been a real mess.
I can't imagine how you'd get a buggy-chassis to fly correctly.
Much less vehicle weight, and all of it in the rear . . .
Geez, the center-of-gravity on it wouldn't be anywhere near a normal car.
Not to mention the lack of body sheetmetal . . .
It wouldn't have anything to "crumple up" between the frame/rollcage and the ground!
That buggy must have really hurt on landing. I don't see how it could be safe on any big jump.
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Another one
Here's another crazy jump from the episode "Knightmare"
http://ludep.free.fr/knightmare.mpg
http://ludep.free.fr/knightmare.mpg
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Re: Another one
jack3414 wrote:Here's another crazy jump from the episode "Knightmare"
http://ludep.free.fr/knightmare.mpg
thats a cool jump
but
what a nice ramp
do you have the whole episode on mpg?
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jack3414 wrote:yeah, i've got the full episode in Divx, recorded from M6 on last saturday.I've also seen the ramp !
Is it possible that you send me this one to dome@whoever.com ??
Is it in French?
@Neps
In Germany exists a page with lots of funny Kngiht Rider mistakes and bad hided tricks
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the file is over 250 megs and i've only got a 56K connection ! And 250 megs is too much for a mailbox...
And yes, it is in french.
That's too bad...
You live in France or Switzerland ?
And yes, it is in french.
That's too bad...
You live in France or Switzerland ?
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well actually it is not an German page, it is an austrian one.
if you go on
http://www.8ung.at/sprittwoch/sprittfor ... rider.html
you see all episodes one after the other. those which are coloured you can klick on it and see the mistakes of the episodes. but it is all in German.
if you go on
http://www.8ung.at/sprittwoch/sprittfor ... rider.html
you see all episodes one after the other. those which are coloured you can klick on it and see the mistakes of the episodes. but it is all in German.
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In english via a bad google translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... uage_tools
Kinda reminds me a bit of the nitpicks at the krfoundation.com, but they have pretty interesting execution.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... uage_tools
Kinda reminds me a bit of the nitpicks at the krfoundation.com, but they have pretty interesting execution.
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well, They show severall mistakes, which someone who loves Knight Rider wont find by watching those episode.
for example: instead of Wilton Knight they say Wilson Knight! I have never discovered this mistake, because I was used to hear the name Wilton.
Or in the Pilot, when Michael is telefoning to Devon, behind you can see the logo of PEPSI COLA, but you can not see the word PEPSI because the covered the letters by a black thing.
I like this page!
my favorite is this one:
You can see Kitt driving on a country road (it is filmed by a Helicopter (is this the right word?). and suddendly he passed a parked black car. but! if you look twice you can see that the parked car is also a Black 82 TransAm
for example: instead of Wilton Knight they say Wilson Knight! I have never discovered this mistake, because I was used to hear the name Wilton.
Or in the Pilot, when Michael is telefoning to Devon, behind you can see the logo of PEPSI COLA, but you can not see the word PEPSI because the covered the letters by a black thing.
I like this page!
my favorite is this one:
You can see Kitt driving on a country road (it is filmed by a Helicopter (is this the right word?). and suddendly he passed a parked black car. but! if you look twice you can see that the parked car is also a Black 82 TransAm
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I wonder how they do to notice such little things
It must take a lot of time to analyze a whole episode... and also requires a good pair of eyes !
Sometime (I would even say often !), some stuffs in KR are not in conformity with the reality. I've noticed this for example:
At the beginning of an episode, you see Kitt driving by himself, while Mickael is playing an 80's computer game (a kind of Pacman). This game requires accurates and dosed moves. Instead of this, you see Mickael triturating the joystick in all the directions at the same time !
I also like scenes like, for example, when a teenager hijacked Kitt and he used a joystick to control it. It really makes me laugh
Another funny stuff is that when Mickael needs to do something particular with Kitt, Kitt always have that special feature Mickael asked, whereas we've never seen it before For exemple, when they were trapped under a pile of wood, hocus-pocus the hydraulic feature appeared for the first time
It must take a lot of time to analyze a whole episode... and also requires a good pair of eyes !
Sometime (I would even say often !), some stuffs in KR are not in conformity with the reality. I've noticed this for example:
At the beginning of an episode, you see Kitt driving by himself, while Mickael is playing an 80's computer game (a kind of Pacman). This game requires accurates and dosed moves. Instead of this, you see Mickael triturating the joystick in all the directions at the same time !
I also like scenes like, for example, when a teenager hijacked Kitt and he used a joystick to control it. It really makes me laugh
Another funny stuff is that when Mickael needs to do something particular with Kitt, Kitt always have that special feature Mickael asked, whereas we've never seen it before For exemple, when they were trapped under a pile of wood, hocus-pocus the hydraulic feature appeared for the first time