Race between car and wingsuit on UK TV - Top Gear

[unclecharlie95 3]

The race is on! Between a wingsuit and a Porsche Cayenne

The BBC have confirmed the schedule:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4224&day=sunday

Sunday 28th May 2006 at 8pm (GMT) in their words:

"Richard Hammond travels to Cyprus where he pits the new Porsche Cayenne Turbo S against the RAF's Army freefall parachute display team, and the (big) star in the reasonably priced car is Ewan McGregor. "


The wingsuit pilot is LCpl Mac McAuliffe of the Red Devils (Parachute Regiment and British Army parachute display team)http://www.reddevilsonline.com/team_dy.php?memberid=12

Whilst Richard drove the Porsche along the rally course Mac flew his wingsuit to the finish, opened his canopy and raced down to land at the finish line....

To see who wins... well you'll have to watch

GPS was used to position the jump helicopter over the start line and radio was used to synchronise the start/ exit.

Mac was flying the brand new Vampire 2 wingsuit and I went along to do the freefall video.

Tune in Sunday!

Long flights,
J

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[unclecharlie95 3]

I repeat - IF YOU KNOW THE RESULT DO NOT POST IT! Lets keep it a surprise. (damn you Zeemax
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[Zeemax 0]

So, what you're saying is, absoultely post the result if you know it?

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[Pendragon 1]

What d'ya reckon? 'Phone a friend or ask the audience?

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[pbla4024 0]

It is not proper race. We want to see another 6 sec canopy ride :-)

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[smiler 0]

And the winner was.... only joking James.

Mac won't be too impressed by the BBC saying he's in the RAF!!

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[unclecharlie95 3]

Teevee They'll get it right on the night

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[Costyn 1]

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If you are outside the UK maybe something will appear on SkydivingMovies.com afterwards..

If you are outside the UK and don't get BBC2 (we get it here in the Netherlands) you can get torrent files of recent episodes here.

Top Gear rocks!! Can't wait for next week's episode.

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[cpoxon 0]

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If you are outside the UK and don't get BBC2 (we get it here in the Netherlands) you can get torrent files of recent episodes here.

Oi! Pay your licence fee you thieving foreigners! :-P

Yeah but will it be finely edited to the pertinent segment of the show conveniently formated in WMV so that the Mac (< OS X) users can't watch it? D'oh!

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[unclecharlie95 3]

yes pwease!

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[skreamer 1]

I have no idea who won but considering how gobby you've been on here I'm willing to take a guess...

[Katherine 0]

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Yeah but will it be finely edited to the pertinent segment of the show conveniently formated in WMV so that the Mac (< OS X) users can't watch it? D'oh!

I am using OSX and have downloaded windows media player (yep, it hurt) but it does work really well for those pesky .wmv files
You can download it for free here, just select 'media player 9 for mac osx' from the version list.

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[MB38 0]

You can also get drivers to make .wmv files play in Quicktime. I forget the company, but google it.

I really don't know what I'm talking about.

[indyz 1]

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If you are outside the UK and don't get BBC2 (we get it here in the Netherlands) you can get torrent files of recent episodes here.

Oi! Pay your licence fee you thieving foreigners! :-P

Yeah but will it be finely edited to the pertinent segment of the show conveniently formated in WMV so that the Mac (< OS X) users can't watch it? D'oh!

How would I go about doing that? Seriously, I paid extra for BBC America until I realized that it was all home renovation and no Doctor Who. I might be willing to cough up the 131.50/year if it meant I could legally download all of the BBC that I wanted.

[Costyn 1]

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Yeah but will it be finely edited to the pertinent segment of the show conveniently formated in WMV so that the Mac (< OS X) users can't watch it? D'oh!

The Top Gear torrents are MPEG4 in DivX or XviD format, which you can conveniently watch under Mac OS X with the absolutely awesome video players MPlayer or VideoLan Client. They will play almost any video file you throw at them.

Alternatively, if you do get a WMV from SkydivingMovies.com (or elsewhere), get the Flip4Mac plugin for QuickTime (which is what MB38 was talking about I believe), so you can play WMVs in the QuickTime player.

Costyn van Dongen - http://www.flylikebrick.com/ - World Wide Wingsuit News

[VectorBoy 0]

I might be willing to cough up the 131.50/year if it meant I could legally download all of the BBC that I wanted.

[bob.dino 1]

Does VLC not play .wmv on Mac?

[Costyn 1]

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Does VLC not play .wmv on Mac?

Hmmm.... thats interesting. I thought it didn't play the newer WMVs, but now that I try out a couple, it seems to work fine. Dunno if it'll play the newest WMV9 files. I don't really have a way of identifying codecs used in files under Mac (there's no GSpot for Mac that I know of).

Thanks for the heads up.

Costyn van Dongen - http://www.flylikebrick.com/ - World Wide Wingsuit News

[Gadget 0]

I know who won


btw nice footage james

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[piisfish 140]

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can a Cayenne beat a man dressed as a flying squirrel, who has just jumped out of a police helicopter? And the answer to that question, is sadly, no.

so where is the video now ?

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[LukeH 0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf4k8BUa_hg&search=top%20gear

[pierre3636 0]

nothing yet on skydivingmovies??

should b super kool !

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[FlyinBob 0]

Ha! That's good! Funny!

Not a terribly realistic contest, but entertaining as hell! And I guess that was the point of it all - and to sell Porche Cayenne's.

Excellent show. Bravo.

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[arai 0]

haha great piece of tv, nicely shot too. I think its good how top gear keeps itself an intesting show, or at least an entertaining one.

great job

[LouDiamond 1]

Nicely done TV/commercial piece. I bet they were not too happy having to give a wrecked vehicle back to Porsche.

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