Last Call: Flight 199, Now Departing

Jeff Glucker

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If you haven’t yet watched Gymkhana 2020, you should take a few minutes to go do that. It’s great. The shots are excellent and it feels like a return to the more classic iterations of the series. Add in some fresh starman wheel power in Travis Pastrana, some wild driving, and this absolutely wicked 150 mph jump, and the finished product is truly an entertaining bit of automotive wonder.

Check out the snap below from Hoonigan’s own Ron Zaras. It’s a great shot of a great car doing great things. Gotta love that.

Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged.

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Jeff Glucker

Jeff Glucker

Jeff Glucker is the co-founder and Executive Editor of Hooniverse.com. He’s often seen getting passed as he hustles a 1991 Mitsubishi Montero up the 405 Freeway. IG: @HooniverseJeff

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7 responses to “Last Call: Flight 199, Now Departing”

  1. salguod Avatar
    salguod

    That jump was awesome. Not to take anything away from Travis, but it did kind of remind me of this:

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  2. Batshitbox Avatar
    Batshitbox

    Speaking of Flight 199… here’s what Tom Wolfe had to say about (R.I.P.) Chuck Yeager’s cockpit radio mannerisms
    (Edited for brevity; if you’ve ever read Tom Wolfe…)

    “Anyone who travels very much on airlines in the United States soon gets to know the voice of the airline pilot… coming over the intercom… with a particular drawl, a particular folksiness, a particular down-home calmness that is so exaggerated it begins to parody itself… the voice that tells you, as the airliner is caught in thunderheads and goes bolting up and down a thousand feet at a single gulp, “Now, folks, uh… this is the captain… ummmm… We’ve got a little ol’ red light up here on the control panel that’s tryin’ to tell us that the landin’ gears’re not… uh… lockin’ into position when we lower ’em”

    That particular voice may sound vaguely Southern or Southwestern, but it is specifically Appalachian in origin. It originated in the mountains of West Virginia, in the coal country, in Lincoln County, so far up in the hollows that, as the saying went, “they had to pipe in daylight.” In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s this up-hollow voice drifted down from on high, from over the high desert of California, down, down, down, from the upper reaches of the Brotherhood into all phases of American aviation. It was amazing. … Military pilots and then, soon, airline pilots, pilots from Maine and Massachusetts and the Dakotas and Oregon and everywhere else, began to talk in that poker-hollow West Virginia drawl, or as close to it as they could bend their native accents. It was the drawl of the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff: Chuck Yeager.”

    P.S. I’m not shitting you, that was edited for brevity.

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    1. outback_ute Avatar
      outback_ute

      Yes, I read stories like the Blackbird speed check one with that voice for the pilot.

      RIP one of the best ever.

      On a completely different note, what an extraordinary race at the F1 Sakhir GP! Apart from anything else, there were some great overtaking moves, there is something to be said for a simple track layout.

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    2. Jeff Glucker Avatar
      Jeff Glucker

      I have a signed copy of Yeager’s autobiography. Not signed to me, mind you. I found a used copy with a signature for sale online and bought it. Someone should’ve held on to that one.

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  3. William Byrd Avatar
    William Byrd

    I need to figure out where that 150 mph jump too place, pretty sure I’ve driven on that road. Going 150 to begin with would be nuts, doing a jump like that in one take is incredible.

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    1. Zentropy Avatar
      Zentropy

      The skill (and guts) involved is impressive, but when I see stunts like this, my mind first goes to the engineering. How much chassis reinforcement was required to pull off a landing that he could actually drive away from?

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      1. Jeff Glucker Avatar
        Jeff Glucker

        That car probably cost 500k to build. It’s as if a WRC team was allowed to have zero rules in building a car for competition.

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