fire hoses lifting a car

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RaZias
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fire hoses lifting a car

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See this video, it shows a car being lifted by several fire hoses.

http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/just_ ... ift/#41283
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Re: fire hoses lifting a car

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RaZias wrote:See this video, it shows a car being lifted by several fire hoses.

http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/just_ ... ift/#41283
There was an episode of Mythbusters where they duplicated this experiment. When they did it they could not get the car off the ground without first removing the drivetrain from the car to make it light enough to lift.

After they made it lighter, the car flew just like in the video.
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