I would think it would brake/bend most of the suspension system
BjP
----- Original Message -----
From: "jonathon" <jemery@execpc.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, 12 January, 2001 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] CCKW-353 has arrived home!..MVs in movies questions.
>
> >Also if you watch the scene were Rambo jumps the M135 over the police
cars
> >you can the gas tank come off when it lands back on the ground.
>
> The one thought I had when I saw that scene, well other than how does a
> vehicle get launched when it's supposed to be running into something, but
> then this is Hollywood, is that when it landed it looked like the
suspension
> was a bit stiff. Would a normal 2-1/2 ton land like that? and if it would
> land like that, would the axles and such survive? Inquiring minds want to
know.
>
> je
>
>
> >
> >Bobby Joe Pendleton II
> >MVPA#17657
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "chance wolf" <timberwolf@wheeldog.net>
> >To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >Sent: Friday, 12 January, 2001 10:06 PM
> >Subject: Re: [MV] CCKW-353 has arrived home!..MVs in movies questions.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> >
> >> > In a message dated 1/12/01 5:12:21 AM, tonygull@ozemail.com.au
writes:
> >> >
> >> > >can anyone tell me what MV features in "First Blood" with Stallone
> >> > >crashing a cop car..
> >> >
> >> > The best possible HMV to destroy- M135 Ha!
> >>
> >> Heh. First Blood.
> >>
> >> That movie was filmed in British Columbia, and was one of the first
films
> >> the company I work for did for the industry (though before my time.)
> >>
> >> The trucks themselves were M-135CDN's, and were still in the service of
> >Her
> >> Majesty's Canadian Forces when borrowed from local militia units in
> >exchange
> >> for a generous cash donation by the film company.
> >>
> >> I do know that the M-135 that did the gas-station deal looked pretty
nuked
> >> when all the pieces landed, but it evidently was salvaged and went on
to a
> >> new life somewhere in the 'states, if memory serves. The others went
back
> >> to their respective units, and one of our fellow list members happened
> >> across one of them in a farmers field some years afterwards, and was
> >> surprised to find a U.S. white star when he sanded down a bumperette.
> >>
> >> There's another scene to watch out for in that movie. When Stallone
had
> >to
> >> do his jump onto the top of the one deuce-and-a-half as it drove by,
> >> evidently the stuntman who first tried it didn't realize the canvas was
> >not
> >> used to supporting a jet-propelled human being, and predictably, he
went
> >> right through. The solution after that was to stuff a mattress between
> >the
> >> canvas tarp and the top bows (presumably supported from beneath as
well)
> >so
> >> he could land a bit less spectacularly. If you run the film, you can
> >quite
> >> clearly see the outline of somebody's Sealy Posturpedic where there
should
> >> be nothing but oaken skeleton.
> >>
> >> Andy Hill
> >> MVPA 9211
> >> Vancouver, B.C.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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