naisho
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Me and a friend were talking about the bike + plane intro scene in GoldenEye 007, when Bond jumps off the cliff of a Russian secret laboratory from a motorbike in pursuit of an unmanned airplane.
Obviously this is next to impossible in real life, as you have a ton of different variables like human error, reaction, plenty of things to make this stunt 99% virtually impossible if it actually was. Not to mention the fact that what's shown in movies are fake as well.
But I wanted to check mathematically if this was even at the slightest possible.
Basically what happens is:
An unmanned plane is falling at neutral speed off the cliff - Bond leaps off a bike about 1-2 seconds behind it. Would it have been remotely possible with physics, that he would have reached the cockpit of the plane before it hit the ground?
I would assume the Terminal Velocity equation applies in here? If I remember back correctly from intro physics class, there was a formula to calculate the speed of an object falling after a given time.
Off Wiki, that seems to be:
What we do know from this video:
- The plane was rolling off the cliff at least within 5-10mph, any higher, the fight out of the plane would've had a different scenario.
- Bond leaps about 1.8 seconds right after the plane falls off the cliff
- Let's assume the motorbike was going around 30-50MPH for that short period of time.. so maybe 40MPH to work on average.
- Bond looks like he's about 150-200 feet away from the cockpit during the leap.
Lets say we take the time before you hit the ground variable away -- is it even remotely possible that a human can reach the cockpit of an unmanned airplane falling at neutral speed in midair using gravity?
Obviously this is next to impossible in real life, as you have a ton of different variables like human error, reaction, plenty of things to make this stunt 99% virtually impossible if it actually was. Not to mention the fact that what's shown in movies are fake as well.
But I wanted to check mathematically if this was even at the slightest possible.
Basically what happens is:
An unmanned plane is falling at neutral speed off the cliff - Bond leaps off a bike about 1-2 seconds behind it. Would it have been remotely possible with physics, that he would have reached the cockpit of the plane before it hit the ground?
I would assume the Terminal Velocity equation applies in here? If I remember back correctly from intro physics class, there was a formula to calculate the speed of an object falling after a given time.
Off Wiki, that seems to be:
What we do know from this video:
- The plane was rolling off the cliff at least within 5-10mph, any higher, the fight out of the plane would've had a different scenario.
- Bond leaps about 1.8 seconds right after the plane falls off the cliff
- Let's assume the motorbike was going around 30-50MPH for that short period of time.. so maybe 40MPH to work on average.
- Bond looks like he's about 150-200 feet away from the cockpit during the leap.
Lets say we take the time before you hit the ground variable away -- is it even remotely possible that a human can reach the cockpit of an unmanned airplane falling at neutral speed in midair using gravity?