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Awesome Homemade Flying Car Video Uses Balloons to Achieve Liftoff
Posted by Adam Frucci at 8:20 AM on November 28, 2007
I love this new trend of homemade videos with incredible special effects. We've seen a few of them before that deal with UFOs, and now a bunch of dudes went and made a video about attaching helium balloons to their car with predictably great results. This one used a crane as well as computer effects, so you might consider it cheating, but then again, I'd like to see you make something this cool with or without a crane. [YouTube]
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steve
Posted November 28, 2007 9:31 AM
Love those kiwis :)
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 5:09 PM 27/11/07
If I was a cop that happened to be in the area, I'd find a way to bust them for having a 2k lb vehicle float dangerously around the neighborhood, since the strings can pop and the car can come crashing down on some poor fool that happens to be under it when it does.
Kaiser-Machead
stonefry
Posted 5:06 PM 27/11/07
They admitted that they got help from Ford to make this commercial.
Look here [www.youtube.com]
And here [www.youtube.com]
stonefry
HonusWScruggs
Posted 5:01 PM 27/11/07
About 200,000 balloons would be needed for a 2,200 lb. car. That's assuming a lot of impossible conditions could be met.
HonusWScruggs
Taime
Posted 4:54 PM 27/11/07
There is already a advert in the UK where people attach balloons to their cars to get rid of them.
Taime
randotheking
Posted 4:50 PM 27/11/07
@thistle.john: 1000x more ballons could probably lift 1lb more
you should watch mythbusters!
randotheking
James
Posted 4:48 PM 27/11/07
either a crane or a paper car.
James
lastpulse
Posted 4:46 PM 27/11/07
How come they didn't float away while putting the balloons on there? Great video...
lastpulse
jbhitter24
Posted 4:43 PM 27/11/07
and they say we have a helium shortage!
jbhitter24
thistle.john
Posted 4:30 PM 27/11/07
WOW, possibly the coolest video i have ever seen!
you say its all done with a crane, but you cant see the crane at all, also, well acted~
one problem, you would probs need 1000X that many baloons!
thistle.john
nimblesquirrel
Posted 6:03 PM 27/11/07
This was filmed in NZ, and the day after it was released on Youtube, the local media got hold of it and tried to find out who did it and if it was real.
The found out who: a marketing company, paid by Ford.
The how was only revealed at the end when one of the neighbours to the property explained how they had a crane blocking the street for most of a day.
Personally I like the floating car on Top Gear.
[www.youtube.com]
The trick is much simpler, and far more effective. ;)
nimblesquirrel
DJJS
Posted 6:03 PM 27/11/07
Though the Video is fake..
it would be trippy just seen a Car,
strapped with baloon's fly by..
DJJS
Ezhax
Posted 5:56 PM 27/11/07
Thats exactly what i was thinkin
Ezhax
Truegod
Posted 5:47 PM 27/11/07
Someone send this to Mythbusters. It's obviously fake, it took the Mythbusters more balloons to lift a girl under a hundred pounds. But I'm sure they would love to see how many balloons to actually lift a car.
Truegod
NZRUSS
Posted 5:45 PM 27/11/07
Any of you catch that mythbusters where they had a 5YO girl do the same thing... it took about 5 times as many balloons as what is shown here to lift her off the ground.....
Of course this whole car things is *just for fun*(TM)
NZRUSS
Kricket
Posted 5:36 PM 27/11/07
^ wow guys - talk about taking the fun out of things...
Kricket
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 5:21 PM 27/11/07
Wow... lotsa work for nothin' right there.
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 5:09 PM 27/11/07
@Kaiser-Machead: Then I'd tie their asses to the balloons, and bid thee farewell.
Kaiser-Machead
daytripper
Posted 6:58 PM 27/11/07
Without a crane? Hmm.. does Gmod count?
daytripper
banmojo
Posted 6:28 PM 27/11/07
I got me wee willy to float straight up inna air by slapping a balloon like contraption right tight 'round it, but that was a whole 'nuther matter.
Sorry, mates, I'll be heading to bed now.
banmojo
illustriouschin
Posted 7:18 PM 27/11/07
this should be the real segway of the skies i would float that down to the yuppy coffe store any day.
illustriouschin
whiskey
Posted 8:28 PM 27/11/07
@randotheking: Yup... they used even more (i think) to give a ride to a little girl (how lucky).
How about tossing the car over a blue sky (to use it as a blue screen) and make it look like it's flying? That would be awesome (unless you own said car)!
whiskey
Yeebles
Posted 4:20 PM 28/11/07
Brainiac, a show in the UK also lifted a ful grown man with helium baloons. They used about the same amount of weather baloons as the normal ones in this video.
Yeebles
FizzyPopMan
Posted 5:06 PM 29/11/07
And here's the UK ad mentioned earlier.
[www.youtube.com]
FizzyPopMan
FizzyPopMan
Posted 5:02 PM 29/11/07
Why float a car when you can float a person? Wouldn't it be funny if someone had actually tried something like this for real, used weather balloons instead, and floated up to 16,000 feet?
Wait a minute!
[www.darwinawards.com]
FizzyPopMan
Daimyo Nintendo
Posted 10:54 AM 30/11/07
BULLSHIT! First off they are blowing with up with air which will give you no life, you need helium. Number 2 is that they tried this on mythbusters and they needed around 50 times the balloons these n00bs have just to life up a 5 year old child!
@ TRUEGOD exactly
@ FIZZYPOPMAN being on gizmodo I am surprised you don't watch mythbusters, they did this for real on the show!
I cant believe there are actually cockfucks who waste their time with this stuff. Mythbusters is totally different, but the guys on you-tube just have nothing better to do, nothing productive to do, how about contributing to society you douche bags! Man I dislike people like this.
Daimyo Nintendo
FizzyPopMan
Posted 6:20 PM 2/12/07
@DAIMYO NINTENDO
Thanks for the heads up! I'm not in the US....and don't have access to the discovery channel, but I've seen the show....can't wait to see the clip!
FizzyPopMan
ISU-Cyclone
Posted 5:10 AM 28/11/07
That was great!
ISU-Cyclone