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Sun, 23 Oct 2011
TIV2
Robert started the day re-watching the MythBusters episode of testing Tornado Intercept Vehicles (TIV) against really strong winds (the exhaust of a 747’s jet engines). Then we went to the Air and Space Museum by Dulles to see the TIV2 in person and watch Tornado Alley about their efforts to drive into a the middle of a tornado.
The poster and web site for the movie are pretty over-produced, but it was fun and interesting. And it’s cool to see in IMAX glory on the really big screen what it’s like in the middle of a tornado. Actually seeing the car and talking with Marcus, the driver, was the highlight though. It turns out that to straighten the spike which were bent filming the MythBusters episode, they drove very slowly forward.
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