I still don’t buy it.
a car is what, 6 feet wide ? 200 feet is approximately 30 cars.
Robbie Maddison of Australia made a motorcycle leap of 322 feet, 7 1/2 inches at the Rio Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas earlier this year and...
he meant to do it...and I'm guessing he wasn't braking. That distance almost doubled anything Knievel did.
This story makes me go hmmmm
This could be a freshman physics question. To drop 70 feet takes sqrt( 70 ft/ (2 * 32 ft/sec2) ) = 1.05 sec
Then to go 200 ft in 1.05 seconds, the car had to be going 200 ft/1.05 sec = 190 ft/sec = 130 mph.
“That’s ballpark” as we say in the trade.