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Do not try what you're
about to see at home.

We're what you call experts.

[ Clang! ]
Ow!

On this episode
of "mythbusters"...

[ Tires screech ]
We get behind the wheel...

[ Indistinct shouting ]

ride the rails...

And take flight...

Whoo! Ho, ho! Ho, ho!

As we go behind the scenes...

- Jamie!
- Get the inside story...

He for some reason
forgot to turn off the key.

You're sitting there
watching it.

Your mind cannot process it.

And count down the top 12

plane, train,
and automobile moments.

That was definitely the
strangest thing i had ever done

in my life up till that point.

[ Chuckles ]

Today, it's just another day
at the office.

Who are the mythbusters?

Adam savage...
[ Electricity crackles ]

It's scientific!

And Jamie hyneman.

Is that hot enough for ya?

Between them, more than 30 years
of special-effects experience.

Joining them... Grant imahara...

He's alive!
[ Laughs ]

kari Byron...

I was less excited
after my first kiss.

And Tory belleci.

Dude, that was the coolest thing
I've ever done!

They don't just tell the myths.

They put them to the test.

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buckle up and stay on track,
because it's chalks away

for the "planes, trains
& automobiles" special.

[ Horns blaring,
tires screeching ]

[ Siren wailing ]

- What are you doing?
- Oh.

[ Record scratches ]

I'm, uh, adding a little
special-effects wizardry

to the opening of the show.

Wizardry, huh?

Yeah! Check it out!
I could be in space.

[ Beep, radio chatter ]
Wooooshh.

Or underwater.

Or, in the case
of this particular episode,

a plane, a train...
[ Train whistle blows ]

or an automobile.

That's what this whole episode
is gonna be about...

Our favorite behind-the-scenes
moments and never-told tales

about anything
we've ever had to do

with planes, trains,
and automobiles.

You mean like when you peed
on the third rail.

- Exactly.
- There we go.

Or when you got sick
with the blue angels?

Precisely.

Or like when you crashed
your concrete glider.

[ Sighs ]

Okay, are we gonna
be totally negative

about everything to do
with this episode?

No. I'll go along for the ride.

Good. Let's go.

And to kick-start this
dirty dozen, where do we begin?

Vehicles have always
been fertile for us.

You might even say that vehicles
have provided the cornerstone

of "mythbuster" material.

Trying to pick out 12 moments
in all of these years...

it's gonna be tricky.

But if we're gonna start
anywhere,

i would start with planes.

[ Engine turns over ]

- Yay!
- Yeah!

Roger that.

Because the aviation wing
of "mythbusters"

has been in full swing
for some time.

And for our first moment,
here's captain hyneman.

[ Ding ]

Ladies and gentlemen,
this is your captain speaking.

Put your tray tables
and your seats

in the full upright position.

Make sure you have
all your seat belts engaged.

And kiss your ass goodbye.
[ Ding ]

It's the magic moment

the mythbusters
earned their wings

being talked in to land.

[ British accent ]
The pilot has died.

For some reason, I'm the one
they turn to to land the plane.

I get on the horn and say,
"hello? Hello?

Air traffic control,
talk me how to fly this beast,

land these people safely, man."

And he says, "yes."

That's my task.

And to test that,
they got their hands

on one heck of a big boy's toy.

Over the years, we've been given

some pretty amazing toys
to play with...

The bloodhound
for "beat the bloodhound"...

Whoa! Ho ho ho ho!

Fighter jets for "Sonic boom"...

Holy crap!

And that huge
hurricane-producing thing

called the medusa
for "hurricane window."

That was awesome!

But we've never been
actually allowed

to fly a plane
for an experiment.

It turns out the f.A.A.
Is pretty strict about the rules

under which someone's allowed
to fly a plane,

and we don't apply.

But thanks to air traffic
controller Terry rager,

they didn't need
to take to the sky.

Welcome aboard.

Eventually, we were able
to get the next-best thing,

and we got access
to a flight simulator at NASA.

Of course,
we broke it in the process,

but what are you gonna do?

[ Alarm blaring ]
What?

The control,
where the guys had to land

without any assistance
from the tower...

[ Alarm beeping ]

Terrain. Okay.

That means I'm really close
to the terrain. [ Chuckles ]

went just about
as well as could be expected.

I pretty much crashed and burned
almost immediately.

It was grisly.

[ Alarm blaring ]
Okay. Wait. Oh, my!

Aah! Aah!

[ Laughs ]

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

I was really surprised
how difficult it was

to try and fly that plane
with no help

and no experience at all.

The thing was that
all the gauges in the plane,

they're not really labeled.

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

And inside
the ultra-realistic simulator,

not being able
to find the controls

was the least
of Jamie's problems.

Don't think.

Why's it telling me
not to think?

Don't think.

We were wondering,
what sort of narrative

occurred at the f.A.A. For them
to put this phrase into a plane

to start yelling at the
pilot under some kind
of crash conditions.

"Don't think"?

- Don't think.
- Yeah, shut up.

It was only later we realized
that the plane was saying...

"Don't sink."

Ho!

And after two crash landings,
enter air-control swami Terry.

Okay.

Could he talk
our rookie pilots down?

The most astonishing thing
was, though,

with guidance
from our air traffic controller,

we were able to land the plane.

Okay, what's your
pitch attitude?

Uh, I'm at 5 degrees.
Over.

Very good.

Yep, despite flying blind,

Terry calmly
and precisely talked

not just one mythbuster...

I'm stopped.

Congratulations, Jamie.
You made it.

But two through two landings.

Okay, pull the nose up.

[ Tires screech ]

Whoo! I did it!

That plane
wasn't gonna fly again,

but all the people inside of it
were alive.

It might have been a different
story with 300 passengers,

but quite honestly,
if I'm ever in a plane

and someone asks,
"can someone fly this plane?"

I might just raise my hand.

[ Tires screech ]

Next is a moment
about staying on your "tows."

Though towing is our best choice

when we're trying
to crash vehicles,

because we're not gonna
drive them...

[ Laughs ]

it can present a few problems.

Indeed,
and those problems are familiar

to every "mythbusters" viewer...

It's gonna go into the water.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
Yes!

Which is why occasionally
we get professional help.

[ Laughter ]

Specifically
in the area of crashes...

- Yeah!
- Yeah!

We've needed a level of
accuracy that exceeds anything

we've been able to achieve
on the show.

And in those cases,
we've actually resorted

to specialized
crash-test facilities.

At these testing facilities,
they crash cars all the time.

That was so Hollywood!

They have ironed out
all the bugs.

They do this every single day.

Except for when we show up.

[ Horn blares ]

For instance,
"instant convertible."

I don't think that went
quite as planned.

Not quite as planned,
but it's no accident

that this memorable mistake
made the countdown.

Now, we were testing the myth
that you can drive a car

underneath
a semi-truck trailer...

Park it!

Cut the top off,
turn it into a convertible,

and continue on driving.

Get in there.
All right, good luck, buddy.

Myth seemed simple.
The setup was simple.

But getting the thing to work
was far from simple.

10, 20, 30, 40...

Now, we knew the roof
was gonna come off.

We knew we were getting
ourselves a convertible.

And 70!

Whoo!

- Ohh!
- Ho!

- Ohh!
- Ohh!

What we didn't know
is that it wouldn't stop.

It kept going.

Sometimes
failure is not only an option,

it's a spectacular surprise.

Whoo! Ho, ho! Ho, ho!

Oh!

What's on the other side
of that berm?

Uh-oh.

[ Chuckles ]

When i watched the rough cut

and saw that look
on kari's face...

That mix of fear, panic,
and excitement altogether...

[ Camera shutter clicks ]

if there is one
facial expression

that sums up the totality
of "mythbusters,"

that would be it.

Yep, you'd think the mythbusters
would be used to it by now.

They should always expect
the unexpected.

What i always wanted to imagine

is what the people
on the freeway were thinking

when they saw a car
fly up into the air vertically.

That must have been
a crazy sight.

It was one of those moments
where I'm glad nobody got hurt,

but I'm also very glad
that it went so wrong.

After the break, there's more
automotive mayhem...

Well, there's your problem.

And even a flying car.

[ Laughs ]

There's more rails,
wheels, and wings

as we count down the top 12

plane, train, and automobile
moments.

Next is the story that proves
road rage doesn't pay.

I think it's the fact

that either rising gas prices
hit us all where we live

or the fact that everybody
at some point or another

has had to tinker
with their car...

Well, there's your problem.

And thus can really
kind of get into what
we're talking about.

We've done "truck tailgate
up or down,"

"windows versus a.C."

This test is being done
by professional drivers

on a closed track.
Your results may differ.

We've done
"dirty versus clean car"

and turned a car
into a golf ball.

The fact is it worked.

I feel like eating my beret.

We've also tried a whole bunch
of mythical gadgets

you can purchase, like magnets
and super carburetor filters

and all sorts of other crap.

This is such total horse [Bleep]

None of it has increased
fuel efficiency

by more than 2% or 3%,

and most of it
hasn't worked at all.

Until kari, Grant, and Tory
tested whether or not your mood

had a large effect
on your fuel efficiency.

And it's the astonishing result
of "don't drive angry"

that puts this story
into the countdown.

After the boys had completed
driving a circuit normally,

kari began
her psychological torture.

So, getting to the truth
of this myth

is not something
that i remember fondly.

[ Grunts ]

There are a lot of people
that don't understand this.

9 out of 10 people
do not understand this.

However, that 10th person is
like, "yes! I totally get you!

And i don't like the fish
touching me, either!"

Aah!
[ Tires screech ]

Imagine this...

Being stuck in a car, loud
noises blaring in your ear...

[ Beeping, blaring ]
You guys got me [Bleep]

This is definitely...
You did a great job.

A rat crawling
all over your body...

Where did those rats go?!
Where did you go?!

You have to [Bleep]...

[ Tires screech ]

how do you think
you would drive?

Well, as it turned out,

three times more expensively
than a mild-mannered driver.

Which says to me that, you know,
people who drive angry

are gonna be angry not only
at the people on the road,

but they're gonna
be really angry

because they're using
all this gas.

And then they're gonna
be even more angry at that.

So remember...
To save on gas and cash,

- don't drive angry.
- Aah!

And at number 9,
we're bending the rules.

Planes, trains, and automobiles
are all very well and good,

but when you're talking
sheer fun,

nothing beats a motorcycle.

[ Tires screech ]

They're not strictly
within the remit,

but the mythbusters and bikes
have a memorable relationship...

[ Imitating motor ]

none more so than trying
the Indiana Jones myth

that a flagpole
could flip a motorcycle.

3, 2, 1. Go!

[ Laughs ]

It totally
doesn't work like that,

but it was really fun
to dress up as Indiana Jones.

* ba-da-da-da!
Ba-da-da! *

Jamie actually got into
the character of Henry Jones

and called me "junior."

[ Laughs ]
Well, the timing was perfect.

If you say so, junior.

[ Laughs ]

But that was just a precursor

to the ultimate
in motorcycle mayhem.

Without a doubt, the best
two-wheel story we've ever done

is "tablecloth chaos."

The myth here was that you could
pull a tablecloth out

from under a banquet table
full of settings

without upsetting a single dish.

But here's the catch...
Using a motorcycle.

What other story has Jamie
trotting out his muscle bike,

walking around for several days
in full leathers,

which he didn't complain about
one bit,

and then the repeated
destruction

of flatware and China
tumbling onto the ground?

[ Clang ]

Oops.

[ Laughs ]

I've been riding a bike since
before i had a driver's license.

So i never miss an opportunity,
especially on this show,

because we're often allowed
to do things

that you're really not
supposed to do on a road.

Despite Jamie pushing the
throttle to 105 miles per hour,

it was impossible
to pull off this trick

without filmic fakery.

A lot of viewers wrote in
after that episode and said,

"my bike goes a lot faster
than 100 miles an hour.

I could have done that stunt."

You missed the point.

The point was,
taking off from a dead stop.

And you're just not gonna get
anywhere near fast enough

to do that
with any kind of vehicle.

Nope. It won't work...

Unless, like Adam and Jamie, you
use special-effects wizardry.

[ Laughs ]

It's busted.

At number 8, it's the myth
that a car could skip a lake.

"Car skip"
was one of those stories

that happened while i was
on maternity leave.

The car is on!
This is it, you guys!

Hit it.

It was the perfect
"mythbusters" story.

Perfect, but the start
didn't go quite to plan,

which is often the case with
our remote-control escapades.

That car didn't skip!

Now, Grant is known
for his remote-control skills.

I don't know if he did a lot of
video-gaming when he was a kid.

But he is our go-to guy when
it comes to the remote control.

And with good reason.

Because this car
had a nitrous booster,

making it twice as fast
and also...

Exponentially harder to control.

I could potentially have
a rocket on my hands.

With that kind of power
comes a lot of pressure.

This is crazy, man!

This is totally crazy.

We're like Thelma and Louise!

We are?

In 3, 2, 1.
Hit it.

But it was water
off a duck's back

as Grant skipped the car
across the lake

and into remote-control history.

We skipped a car
across a lake! Yeah!!

That is a moment of joy for me,

to see that car
get across the lake

and then, you know,
just keep going.

I mean, that's sort of
the pinnacle of an experiment,

when it works
exactly as you planned.

[ Laughs ]

Buckle up, 'cause this moment
is all about designated drivers.

[ Train whistle blows ]

Looking good, Grant.
Stay on target.

It's fun to make cars
remote-controlled.

[ Tires screech ]
Yeah!

But when you need real precision
in a myth...

[ Laughter ]

you got to drive the cars
yourself.

And thanks to some extreme
driving tuition...

Oop. Sorry about that.

The mythbusters have tried
all kinds of stunt driving.

Okay, I'm buckling up.

[ Laughs ]

[ Horn blares ]

But for Grant, the biggest test
of his wheelman skills...

Bringing it on in.

Was for finding out if you
can save fuel by drafting.

They wanted me to drive within
inches of the rear bumper...

That is crazy!

Yeah, boy!

Which, you know,
is a really scary thing.

I mean, it's one of the scariest
things you can do in a car.

[ Laughs ]

- Nicely done.
- Whoo! [ Laughs ]

Grant confirmed
that drafting saved fuel,

but they weren't finished yet.

Here you go, power ranger.

All right. I'm gonna go
save the universe.

Now, one thing that didn't
actually make the show

is the fact that we not only did
drafting with a car,

but with a bicycle.

Tory drafted a big rig
on a bicycle.

Go.

I just had, like,
a helmet and some body armor.

20 miles per hour.
Maintaining speed.

I mean, if that truck
goes off course or stops,

I'm gonna be right underneath
the back of it...

Maintaining 20 miles per hour.

And that's not gonna be good.

Luckily,
Tory stayed in the saddle...

This is ridiculous.
It's so easy.

And proved that drafting
on a bike is a smooth ride.

Once i got up
to 20 miles an hour,

it felt like there was
no resistance whatsoever.

But when it comes
to big rigs and stunt driving,

one myth reigns supreme.

I can't wait to do this!

The stunt-driving move that
I'm most proud of on the show

has to be "knight rider."

The point of this story was to
see whether you could drive

onto or off of a moving
semi trailer truck.

The TV show
may have made it look easy,

but for Adam,
it was anything but.

So, the testing procedure

looks like
it's pretty straightforward.

Truck drives in front of me
with a ramp down

while i drive up behind it
at 55 miles an hour

and drive up the ramp
and into the truck.

Except that it started to rain.

We couldn't abort. We only had
one more day at that location.

So i had to do that stunt
without actually being able

to see the 18-Wheeler
in front of me

until i was right up
on top of it.

And this spray of rain
is spraying in my windshield,

and I'm going on pure faith that
I've aimed the car correctly,

which i did.

And luckily it worked.

Look at that!

Good job!

The stunt certainly worked.

But one thing didn't.

There was one problem
with this sequence,

and it was in terms of coverage.

Back then on "mythbusters,"
we were using tape cameras...

Magnetic tape
read by little magnetic heads...

And at the moment my car
hit the ramp of the 18-Wheeler,

we bumped all the cameras,

disengaged the heads
for a second,

and they all stopped recording

for that key moment
when i went into the 18-Wheeler.

Thankfully, however, the main
camera caught all the action,

just like it did when Jamie
tried this stunt backwards.

That "knight rider" stunt

was either the most fun
I've ever had with a car

or the most terrifying.

I'm not sure which.

Fun and terrifying.

That's exactly
why it makes the list.

Well, for now, at least.

[ Laughs ]

Would i say that was the apex
of my stunt-driving career?

I wouldn't think so.

I would like to think that
the high points are yet to come.

Indeed.
And our next high point

is the most controversial myth
of all.

I must say i was surprised
when "plane on a conveyor belt"

turned out to be
so darn controversial.

This myth was basically
a thought experiment that said

that if you're a plane trying
to take off on a conveyor belt

that was going
in the opposite direction

that the plane wanted to go,

you wouldn't be able
to take off.

[ Motor whirring ]

In the beginning, Jamie didn't
even want to do this story,

because when i first explained
to him

that it was
a controversial concept,

he was like,
"why would anyone believe

the plane wouldn't take off?
That's idiotic."

It was like,
"I'm gonna be able to fly

if i flap my arms fast enough."

It's not gonna happen.

I had to print out 2-inch-thick
pile of Internet arguments

to show him
that this was absolutely worth

us doing on the show.

And once they started testing...

- I'm ready.
- Okay, go.

Their mini plane
and makeshift conveyor belt

proved the myth was clear
for takeoff.

Is that a flying plane?

That is a flying plane,

and it was on the paper
when it took off.

Excellent!

So it was time to go full-scale.

Because we couldn't find
a conveyor belt

that would accommodate
an airplane taking off,

we decided to go out to a runway
and just cover the entire runway

with a material that was like
a conveyor belt...

It's like making a very big bed.

And then we pulled it.

Light sport,
you're clear to take off.

All right, this is full-size
"airplane on a conveyor belt,"

for real this time!

- All right?
- Go, Jamie, go.

The result of the test showed
that the plane

actually was able to take off.

Because what the wheels
are doing on the ground

doesn't have any relevance
to what the plane is doing.

[ Laughing ]

The plane flies by moving
forward through the air,

and there's nothing that is
happening with the conveyor belt

that is keeping it
from doing that.

Oh, that was beautiful!

But despite proving
once and for all

that a plane on a conveyor belt
would take to the air,

believe it or not,
there are still some

who say the plane
would remain grounded.

For those of you
who still do not believe me,

here is an experiment
you can actually do at home.

Go buy yourself a little
balsa-wood airplane

with a rubber-band propeller.

Take that treadmill
you've had sitting in the closet

and pull it out
into the living room

and turn it
on its highest setting.

Put the plane on it,
and you will notice

that no matter how fast
your treadmill is going

in the opposite direction,

that plane will still
move forward.

Myth busted.

Coming right up...

What can i say? It's nuts.

It's the kind of thing you'll
only see on "mythbusters."

Do not try what you're
about to see at home.

We're what you call experts.

So far on "planes,
trains & automobiles"...

[ Beeping, blaring ]
You guys got me [Bleep]

getting from "a" to "b"
has never been so much fun.

[ Laughing ]

And coming in at number 5

is a myth all about risking
life and limb.

Now, a lot of times
on the show, we have to use
a human being to test a myth.

There's no way around it.
[ Tires screech ]

And when it comes
to thrills and spills,

one shocking moment has it all.

Urinating on the third rail
was about somebody that peed

on the electrified portion
of a railroad.

Allegedly, he got electrocuted.

Testing this involved
several key components.

We had to replicate an
anatomically correct human body.

That body had to be able
to urinate.

Looks like a pretty
convincing stream to me.

Yeah.

And we had to have
an electrified third rail.

[ Chuckles ]

And to replicate
an accurate human flow rate,

they needed a point
of comparison.

And at that point, i had to...

Pee on high-speed camera.

[ Laughs ]

All right, here we go.

This is not our ballistics dummy

that we're looking at here,
right?

Peeing for the high-speed camera

was definitely the strangest
thing i had ever done in my life

up till that point.

Today, it's just another day
at the office.

All right.

Adam passing water
passed muster.

And they put the data to use

with their
anatomically correct dummy.

We've gotten a few complaints
over the years from the fact

that we've built what we called
an "anatomically correct" buster

and then hid that part
behind a fig leaf.

But the fact is, it was a tube.

It was a tube that looked a
little suggestive for our show,

which is, really, you have to
admit, a family show,

and thus the fig leaf.

Well, fig leaf or not,
the myth was busted...

Nothing.
Not a thing.

Until the viewers
challenged the result.

A lot of people
are sending us e-mails,

saying, "well, i peed on an
electric fence on the farm,

and i got a shock."

And, of course,
that shocking statistic

had to be put to the test.

Ohh! [ Laughs ]

- [ Chuckling ] It works.
- [ Laughs ]

So Adam was, uh, volunteered

to literally
put his body on the line.

I'm not looking forward to it,

but I'm ready to try
the experiment.

- Are you?
- I'm not doing it.

Can i point out
that I've already been
painted with gold paint

and had an anal probe today?

You're doing a wonderful job.

[ Laughter ]

Adam was a good sport anyway,
and he took one for the team.

Okay, we're gonna try
and aim here.

I tried to watch Adam pee
on the electric fence,

but when i started
to look down there,

i realized I'd have to look
at his junk,

and so i decided not to.

Well, there's no doubt
our shock jock took charge.

Wait. I got to work one up.
Hold on.

Is there a problem?
[ Laughter ]

I'm just grateful
that the shock was that small.

[ Urinating ]

Oh! There we go.
I got a shock.

It was nothing.

I have been shocked by the full
force of that electric fence

in the "Baghdad battery"
episode.

[ Electricity crackles ]

And I'm really glad i didn't
take that in my privates.

And at number 4,

it's the ultimate
automotive transformation.

Oh, yeah!

We've done a lot
of weird things to cars.

Oh! And it's away!

Nice try!

- We've put rockets on them...
- Fire.

Covered them in Clay.

[ Laughs ]

We've installed diesel-powered
speakers in them.

And yet i think
we're just getting started.

[ Laughs ]

I'd say, without a doubt,

cutting a car body off
and reattaching it backwards

was the wildest thing
we've ever done.

And that's what we did
in "reverse engineering."

This is a myth
i heard in the '80s,

that there was a certain model
of sports car,

which shall remain unnamed,
that was so poorly designed,

it was more aerodynamic
going backwards than forwards.

So to test that...

Lift!

Look at that.

The guys reversed
the engineering of a car.

Nice!

[ Chuckles ]

[ Chuckling ] I'm confused.

What exactly is this?

The result...

[ Tires screech ]

was a car with its lid
literally flipped.

Well, i know,
for all intents and purposes,

it looks like I'm sitting
on the hood, but check this out.

[ Clang ]
That's the exhaust.

It was an unmistakably
"mythbusters" mod.

What can i say? It's nuts.

It's the kind of thing you'll
only see on "mythbusters."

But for our backseat driver,
the most important test

was if the reverse-engineered
car could vanquish

its right-sided counterpart.

A lot of people say,
"oh, you can't race one car

against another like that,

because the engines
could be tuned differently."

That's exactly
why we went to the drift.

"Reverse engineering" drift-off.

Gentlemen, start your engines.

[ Engine turns over ]

3... 2... 1... Go!

Think of it.

When we get those two cars
neck and neck

up to 100 miles an hour

and then cut into neutral,
those cars drift.

And... Drift!

As they head
towards the finish line,

the only difference between them
is their aerodynamics...

Not the engine tuning,
not the exhaust tuning,

not anything.

So we were eliminating
all of that as a possibility

in terms of the aerodynamic
efficiency of both cars.

Thus the first one
at the finish line

is the more aerodynamically
efficient.

I love how simple that is.

Simple and,
since the reverse engineering

didn't engineer a win...

Busted.

Oh! Ah.

Next...

The "planes, trains
& automobiles" special

goes supersonic.

Oh, no!

Coming in fast and furious
at number 3

is one for the speed freaks.

"Mythbusters" and speed
go together like this.

Best friends forever.

We love speed.
We love going fast.

We love things that go fast,
and even Jamie...

[ Laughs ]

gets a big, fat smile
on that mustachioed face

when he goes
really, really fast.

That need for speed
has seen the team

put the pedal to the metal...

Yeah!

And put rockets on cars
for explosive acceleration.

Or not.

But those can't compare to
traveling at the speed of sound.

It is absolutely easy
to determine

the fastest we've ever gone
on the show.

It is when i flew
with the blue angels

to test the Sonic-boom myth.

Strap in.
It's time... To go supersonic.

The question here
was whether or not

every time you have an aircraft

creating a Sonic boom
when it flies over a house,

it's gonna break glass
in that house.

- You ready to go flying?
- I am.

We discussed it in house
who would fly,

and we realized
that it had to be me,

because i was gonna get sick,
and that was going to be funny,

as opposed to Jamie's stoic face
under 7 g's,

which would just look, you know,
a little heavier.

And from the very first surprise
rapid ascent...

- Ready to go flying?
- I am.

Ready, hit it.

The g-forces
had Adam's stomach churning.

Oh-ho!

I'd like to add
a couple of notes

about the vomiting
and the passing-out thing.

Wow!

One is i didn't actually vomit

until the third time
we pulled 7 g's

in some kind of barrel roll.

I managed to make it two full
times without getting sick.

I'm starting to feel
a little nauseous.

I think i may throw up.

You got the bags back there?

[ Coughs ]

The other one about the passing
out, which really surprised me,

was that the pilot knew
that i was about to pass out

before even i knew.

Going on up to 5 g's.
We got 5 g's. 5 1/2.

And he's looking at me
through this tiny little mirror.

But he could see this telltale
sign of my eyes going cloudy.

[ Grunts ]

And then my head, and he's like,
"stay with me, Adam."

Stick with me, Adam.
You got it. You got it.

And i was like [Panting]

And i brought myself
back out of the tunnel.

And then i went all the way
in the tunnel,

and i totally passed out.

Come on. Stay with us.
Stay with us.

We got it. Come back.

You with me?

I'm with you. I passed out
there for just a second.

But Adam's aerobatics
were just the beginning.

Mythbusters, blue angels
test site.

The real question was...

Would the Sonic boom
shatter glass?

That ought to do it.

We are headed straight for them.

2,000 feet at mach 1.07.

[ Sonic boom ]

Wow!

That was something.

How loud was it on the ground?

Well, we were wearing
earplugs and earmuffs,

if that tells you anything.

The sound
may have been ear-splitting,

but despite flying
as low as 200 feet...

Oh, no!

[ Sonic boom ]

[ Sonic boom ]

it wasn't the boom
that broke the glass,

but the distortion of the frame.

Well, there's your problem.

But for Adam,
it was all worth it.

You know, when you're a kid,
you always want to end up

being some kind of secret agent
or superhero.

And "mythbusters"
has really allowed me

to explore
so many aspects of that.

[ Sonic boom ]

[ Laughs ]

I have literally been faster
than a speeding bullet.

I have not yet leaped a building
in a single bound,

but that's on our list.

Coming in at number 2
is a story so big,

we did it twice.

The myth was that a taxi
drove behind a jet airliner

as it was taking off,

and the blast from the jet

picked up the taxi
and just threw it.

The first time the mythbusters
tried to test this myth,

the insurance company took
the wind out of their sails.

"Jet taxi" was our first
intimate experience
with insurance.

And the thing that i couldn't
wrap my head around

was how we were going to
damage a jet airplane

by putting something behind it.

We don't know what the jet
will do to the taxi.

But there's no way in hell
that taxi is gonna do anything

but go farther away
from the jet.

I didn't get it.

Oh, that would have flipped
our taxi!

But two years later,

the guys got wind
of another chance at a jet.

When an opportunity
came up again to do it,

there's no way
we're turning it down.

Yep... in Michigan,
kalitta air and their 747

were more than happy to let the
mythbusters blow off some steam.

- I love you, man!
- I love you, too!

The taxi was lined up,

and the engines roared
into action.

And all of a sudden,
part of the runway peels up.

This whole bed of pavement
just flies away,

kind of like a roof
in a hurricane.

And that was it. I was
like, "that's it. They're
gonna shut us down.

They're not gonna let us
continue testing."

The owner came out, looked at
it, laughed, and we kept going.

By this stage, it was clear,
come hail or high water,

the cab was going
into the jet stream.

Coming up. Power.

I had no idea
what we were about to see.

Ohh!

[ Laughter ]
Yes!

That taxi tumbled down
the lawn just head over heel,

over and over.

I mean, it was so much force.

[ Laughter ]

Getting the cab to flip
was good enough.

But, i mean,
this is the one chance

that we get to play
with an actual 747.

I mean, do you really think
we're gonna stop there?

You're gonna be
a bus driver now!

This is a full-size school bus.

And the jet wash just picked up
the bus like it was nothing...

Whoo!

Flipped it over and slammed
it down right on its roof

and crushed the whole thing.

I mean, it was amazing.

Yep, it certainly was the school
of hard knocks for our bus,

making the jet-taxi myth
literally a blast.

You know, with footage
like this, it's easy to see

why this is the biggest
and most badass moment.

Well, not quite, Grant.

There's one more to come.

Whoo!

Next up...

The ultimate "planes, trains
& automobile" moment.

I highly recommend it.
Forget therapy.

[ Tires screech ]

And now the number-1 moment,

the fantastic finale of
"planes, trains & automobiles."

And it's all about
our destructive relationship

with cars.

We've set them on fire.
We've shot them up.

[ Squeaks ]

We've crashed them.

We've dropped them
from helicopters.

- We've blown them up.
- Bye-bye!

The fact is,
we've destroyed so many

that choosing one
as a perfect representation

of the ultimate car explosion
is impossible.

It's like trying to decide
which is better...

"Star Trek" or "star wars."

"Star wars," by the way.

At any rate, we've each decided
to pick our own favorite.

With so much car carnage
over the years,

our hosts just can't agree
on the best.

And that means
that we've got five times

the awesome automotive mayhem.

So, one of my favorite
car-destruction sequences

was when we split the car
with a snow plow in Wisconsin.

Now, that is the plow
we're looking for!

So, picture this wonderful
snowy landscape...

Car at one end,

giant, razor-sharp
snow-plow blade

and this giant snow plow
at the other end.

In 3, 2, 1. Go!

Tow the car really fast.

Go straight down the track.

-Whoa!
-Whoa!
-Whoa!

And the thing splits
like a banana peel.

The car almost split in two.

That's once in a lifetime.

Once in a lifetime.

Like driving a car stuck
together with duct tape

after kari has had her evil way
with it.

All right.
Time to wreck this car.

Personally, my favorite way
to destroy a car... by hand.

I love destroying cars...

Breaking glass, crunching metal.

It's awesome.

Taking a car apart,
completely destroying it,

is this really amazing,
cathartic experience.

The shattering of glass,
the smoking of the torch,

just metal falling apart
before you.

Every bit of angst
you've ever had gets released.

Whoo! I love it!

I highly recommend it.
Forget therapy.

Yep, for the mythbusters,
the best therapy is destruction,

something Jamie knows
a lot about.

Whoo!

I have to say,

i think "Dukes of Hazzard"
was my favorite,

because that involved running
a car at a ramp at high speed.

It had to go through the air
something like 175 feet

without going splat.

And for that,
all they did was build a ramp...

Nothing like a good hump
is what i always say.

And then remote-control a car
over it at 70 miles per hour.

Simple, right?

The thing was that it all had to
come together perfectly

for it to work, and that was
a pretty tall order.

We can totally do it.

A tall order,
which Jamie more than matched.

[ Both laugh ]

Oh, my lord!

The car flew 173 feet
through the air.

But the landing
was a little rough.

The car is busted.
The myth is busted.

It's very hard on a car
if you do that.

Hard on the car for sure.

But when it comes
to automotive torture,

Tory's choice has it all.

Oh!

"The green hornet" episode,

we probably did more damage
to cars than we've ever done

in the history of "mythbusters."

I mean, we took this
beautiful classic car...

Now, that's a pretty car.

Shot it up with machine guns...

[ Gunfire ]

That didn't suck.

And then stuck it
in a steel elevator

to see if we could
crush it in half...

[ Metal screeching ]

- Whoa!
- Do it! Do it!

Stop! Ohh!

Yeah!

That didn't work, so then
we just chopped a car in half...

Whoo!

And drove that around.

[ Laughs ]

Dude, that is crazy!

Whoo!

It was brutal.

Brutal indeed.

They did everything
bar blowing it up.

But that's okay, because Adam's
favorite has that covered.

Mine is the "viewers' special"
explosion.

This kid had written to us

saying he wanted us to blow up
his parents' car,

and we agreed to do it.

And in typical
"mythbusters" style,

they granted this wish
not once, but twice.

First time, it's gonna
be a movie-style explosion,

like from the '70s TV shows
that you grew up with.

For that movie-style explosion,

the guys created
some movie-style action.

Jamie and i stood
a safe distance away.

I think it was about 100 feet.

I had a mat in front of me, and
Jamie had an explosives plunger.

Fire in the hole!

3, 2, 1!

Jamie's action
was to push the plunger,

and mine was to be running
and to be hopefully in midair

at the exact second
he pushed that plunger...

so that when the actual
explosion went off,

there i was in midair
on that high-speed shot.

Man, it is my favorite
high-speed shot.

It is me reliving
my 7-year-old desire

to be an action-movie hero.

And we got the shot.

But the Hollywood stunt action
took a dive

when it came
to the real-world explosion.

Fire in the hole!

3, 2, 1!

Because one thing is for sure...

With the mythbusters around...

It doesn't matter how...

[ Gunfire ]

it's gonna be car-mageddon.

[ Laughs ]
No more car!