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NHRA Shop Talk: Why Stuff Blows Up – We Talk Carnage In Pro Stock, Pro Mod, and The Nitro Classes
Why does stuff blow up? That’s the topic of this week’s NHRA Shop Talk Live where Alan Reinhart and I talk drag racing and engine tech for your viewing pleasure. Using footage from the...
Glorious Failure Video: This Film Documents NASA Space Shuttle Main Engine Test Failures – They Blew Up A LOT Of Stuff!
The old expression, “If you want to make an omelette, you’ve got to break a few eggs,” has never been illustrated more clearly than it is in this video. You are going to watch a...
Monster Truck Mid-Air Collision: This Is One Of The Wildest Things We Have Ever Seen! 10 Tons Of Wreckage
There’s always something awesome about seeing a “first”, right? We don’t me a global “first ever” we mean a, “Oh damn, never seen that before!” moment....
This Drone Video Of Brenden Mills Awful Woostock Fire Is Stunning – A Very Close Call, Mills OK
If you are a racer and you can watch this video without thinking about your own safety equipment and habits, you are either doing all the right stuff or you are out to lunch. Brenden Mills is a hard...
Great Save: Watch This Dragster Driver Bail Himself Out At Hal Far Raceway On The Island Of Malta
It all goes awry so fast on the strip, right? That’s what this driver experienced at Malta’s Hal Far Raceway during a run in a wildly quick 4G63 Mitsu powered dragster. What’s cool...
Insult To Injury: Watch This Street Racer Suffer A Manifold Explosion, A Fire, and Then A Visit From Johnny Law
There are bad days and then there are BAAAAD DAYS. The guy in the silver late model GTO suffers the latter in this video that was shot at some undisclosed street racing spot in Anywhere, USA. The...
Bird Bomb: James Wisdom’s Thunderbird Grenades At Bonne Terre
You hate to see it, don’t you? Nice car, sounds beefy, ready to take a rip down the strip, and just when the gettin’ is gettin’ good, there’s one loud report and shrapnel is...
The Ironing Board: What Happens When 1.5 Tons Of Concrete Land On An E30 BMW?
For years, scientists predicted that the Puget Sound region of Washington was due for a quake, and on February 28, 2001, they got it. The Nisqually earthquake measured out as a 6.8 on the Richter...
Classic YouTube: This 1964 FAA Controlled Crash Test Of A Douglas DC-7 – When You Must Be Certain Every Safety Feature Will Work…
Deer Valley, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, has a rather grim history in the aviation world: for quite some time the FAA used the Deer Valley Airport to perform aircraft crash testing. The goal: to...
“Watch The Limbs”: Busted Knuckle Films’ “Maximum Destruction 2”
Smashing, bashing, breaking, carnage, swearing, bystanders gaining a healthy fear of a rapidly escalating situation…no, that’s not this video so much, that’s me breaking up the...
The Cockpit View Of The “Hot Stuff” Accident At The Reno Formula 1 Air Race Is Genuinely Horrifying
With aircraft, any mention of the word “crash” (or any of it’s synonyms, like “incident”, “incursion”, or the ubitiquous “oh, shit!”)...
Rough Video: Watch Drag Week Veteran Nick Plewniak Suffer A Flaming Wreck In The Dirty 30 At Edgewater Motor Sports Park – He Walked Away
There’s nothing more sickening than watching a person you know and respect pile up a race car at high speeds. Add in a lot of fire and you have a recipe for something really stunning and not in...
Ever Want To Hit A Beater With A Four-Ton Wrecking Ball? The Slow Mo Guys Show You What Happens When You Do!
Demolition work is a necessary evil in the world. In nature, trees get cored out by ants, water cracks rocks over the years, and various forms of scavengers and detritus consumers get rid of the...
The Beer Money Mustang Tests A Magnetic Driver’s Education Sign. It’s Great To About 129, And Then It Gets No Bueno
Most every conversation we have about the Beer Money Mustang is at some point or another filled with laughter about something dumb that Lyle has done to, or with, the car. It never ceases to...