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  • ( air blowing )

  • ( shouting ) We're in the...

  • ( shouting inaudibly )

  • ( shouting inaudibly )

  • ( television beeping )

  • - Well, that was too loud. - I should say so.

  • - Should we try again? - Yeah, yeah. Go again.

  • Okay, we're in Nuneaton, England

  • at the Horiba Mira full scale wind tunnel.

  • Gav: It's usually used for studying the aerodynamics of different things,

  • like cars, but today, we'll be testing ourselves in the wind tunnel

  • in a very highly requested video.

  • I feel like I've got eight years worth of emails saying,

  • "Get in a wind tunnel." So we did.

  • Well, the thing is, I used to be way more aerodynamic

  • than I am now, so that's gonna be quite a challenge for me.

  • Well, I feel we've waited the perfect amount of time

  • - to make this video. - Great.

  • Why don't we start by cranking this thing up to the max

  • and get some lovely Phantom shots

  • of us trying to stay upright.

  • What's your pose gonna be like?

  • It might be one of these,

  • - or like a-- - Okay, to practice.

  • I'm just gonna do this.

  • So this wind tunnel goes upwards of 80 miles an hour

  • and you can't really just have a bunch of lights

  • and cameras loose,

  • so we've got everything tethered down,

  • weighted down.

  • Even the crew are tethered in.

  • ( laughter )

  • One thing to note about this wind tunnel,

  • it's probably common in wind tunnels,

  • - is that it sucks. - Oh, it doesn't blow?

  • It doesn't blow, it sucks all the air out this way,

  • and there's a load of grates on the other end.

  • I never really knew that about wind tunnels,

  • but I guess that's probably true for all of them

  • because otherwise you're gonna get the buffeting of the fans.

  • Whereas 'cause it's sucking, it's like really clean air.

  • Yeah, and the other side of the fan it's very turbulent

  • and much harder to measure aerodynamics.

  • All right, okay, ready for a thumbs up?

  • ( sharp exhale ) Yeah, let's go.

  • Okay, we're good.

  • Look at him sitting there

  • with his perfectly nice air conditioned room.

  • ( exhales )

  • - ( fans whirring ) - Gav: Okay.

  • - Dan: It's already scary. - Gav: And it's spinning.

  • Dan: Yeah.

  • ( shouting ) It's hard to breathe!

  • ( fans stop )

  • Well, that doesn't mess around.

  • I feel like I could lose my--

  • you know, like, my sleeve's half on, half off.

  • - Yeah. - I feel like this could go.

  • - ( laughs ) - I feel like I could lose it.

  • Should we go see what that looks like?

  • Oh, I'm breathless.

  • - Yeah, oh, my mouth is so dry. - ( babbling )

  • Gav: Imagine if you did a hundred meter sprint

  • - and they cut to this slow mo. - Dan: And you look like that.

  • They'd be like bloody hell, this guy could run.

  • Gav: Well, if you ran 80 miles an hour

  • then that's exactly what it would look like.

  • Dan: This is the least flattering,

  • like it displays all the gut...

  • - Gav: Hm. - Dan: ...receded hairline.

  • - Gav: Yeah. - Dan: It's got it all.

  • Gav: Yeah, I can tell. I can see.

  • All right, Dan. Re-point the camera to the side.

  • A nice profile shot should really show

  • the flappy lab coats

  • and the amount of lean that we can get on this.

  • Do you think I'll be able to get--

  • you'll be able to get more lean than me

  • because you weigh less? Or do you think--

  • - Probably, maybe. - All right.

  • - Okay, we're ready. - Ready.

  • Let's go, let's hit it.

  • ( fans whirring )

  • ( soft music playing )

  • Gav: You're so good at this.

  • Look at ya.

  • Dan: That's a full 45 right there.

  • Gav: Oh, you're so good at this compared to me.

  • ( laughs )

  • Dan: Really struggling there.

  • You are properly at 45 degrees,

  • maybe even lower.

  • Gav: I'm proud of that.

  • I'm gonna try a jump.

  • Might be dangerous.

  • The thing is, I weigh so much more than you.

  • I'm gonna be like, I'll flap back

  • I'm just gonna be like...

  • - All right, you ready? - Yeah, I guess so, let's go.

  • ( fans whirring )

  • Dan: So I was trying to see if 80 miles an hour is enough

  • to be sat in a wind chair

  • and it worked, it worked.

  • Gav: You just down on air.

  • Dan: I feel like five seconds I just sat there like this, like--

  • Gav: I was trying to grab the back of my lab coat

  • to make a little parachute...

  • - Dan: Yeah. - Gav: ...but it was bloody hard to get it

  • 'cause... ( imitates wind blowing )

  • Dan: Yeah, exactly.

  • Gav: It's hard to hold on to it.

  • - It leapt forward into the wind. - Dan: Whoa.

  • Gav: I actually caught air.

  • Dan: You did, and it's pushed you backwards and you--

  • Gav: That's purely blowing me back

  • because I made sure to jump a little bit forward.

  • Dan: Yeah.

  • Why don't we start testing some elements?

  • - Ooh, okay. - Yeah, all right.

  • Like, uh, real water, like, fire.

  • Just like water. Probably not fire.

  • Okay, just not fire.

  • All right, I feel good about this.

  • - Dan. - Dan: Yes?

  • How do you feel about this?

  • - Not good. - ( laughter )

  • I gotta get some air.

  • That's some like light rain there

  • and some not so light rain there.

  • Hey, we haven't even started yet.

  • All right, let's crank the wind.

  • Ah, man.

  • ( fans whirring )

  • Gav: Thank you.

  • Did you get a bit wet?

  • I didn't stand a chance. ( chuckles )

  • Ah, man. What did that feel like?

  • Like I was literally in a storm

  • of some sort of magnitude of...

  • I've never heard of.

  • Gav: You look like a certain singer from a 90's music video.

  • ( Dan laughs )

  • Gav: ( chuckles ) You can see--

  • Dan: Look, it's turning into thicker water

  • when it goes past my ear.

  • Gav: It's splatting off your face, mystifying,

  • and then you're leaving like mist trails.

  • - Dan: Yeah. - Gav: Look at that.

  • Dan: It's like I'm a plane going through the air

  • causing mist.

  • Gav: We deliberately back-lit this

  • so the rain shows up really well

  • against the black background. ( laughs )

  • Dan: I strained my head as well.

  • Didn't go for my body, straight to the head.

  • Gav: Well, yeah. See? And that was, like, full stream.

  • You can see how it mystifies it all.

  • Dan: Oh, yeah. The wind's so powerful that it just--

  • Gav: That is really raining sideways.

  • Dan: Oh, God. Look at underneath there.

  • It's just completely streaming away.

  • Gav: It's hitting you so hard that it will bounce off

  • and it will literally bounce away from the wind

  • that there's so much force.

  • Dan: So the way the hose is, it's like a stream, right?

  • - Gav: Yeah. - Dan: I'm turning it into a mister.

  • - Gav: Yeah. - Dan: It goes into me and turns into mist.

  • Gav: It's a two part misting system...

  • - Dan: Yeah. - Gav: ...and you're part two.

  • The rain was all right, I think we need something

  • - slightly more torrential. - Dan: All right.

  • Do you reckon this is torrential enough?

  • - Oh! - Not bad.

  • - It's a bucket of it. - I'm gonna do well to actually bloody get this

  • into the air, it's gonna be well hard.

  • You're just gonna hit my legs with it.

  • I'm either gonna splash your legs a lot

  • or I'm gonna let go of it

  • and the whole thing will knock you off.

  • Oh, no, I don't want-- do not let go of that bucket.

  • Well, I'm not gonna do it on purpose, am I?

  • All right, let's tether all that..

  • I'm gonna get my block knocked off.

  • ( fans whirring )

  • Uh... ( laughs )

  • - Hey! - ( laughter )

  • So cold.

  • That's what I was dealing with the bucket, basically, right?

  • - I threw it. - Yeah.

  • Like, air got inside it. It was gone from that point.

  • The air was swirling around inside it, like...

  • - ( babbling ) It soaked me. - ( laughs )

  • And I was just trying to hold it,

  • it was like a kite.

  • Bugger.

  • Let's take a look at that.

  • Gav: Look, from the previous attempts

  • - the water that is still on you... - Dan: Oh, yeah.

  • Gav: ...is blowing off, it's actually an air dryer.

  • - Oh-ah. - Dan: You nailed my face there.

  • - Gav: I did. ( laughs ) - Dan: Oh, you soaked me.

  • - Gav: That looks cool. - Dan: Look at my face.

  • - Gav: It's a 90 degree shutter. - Dan: It's like a windshield.

  • Does it ever rain that hard?

  • - Gav: Like a bucket's worth? - Dan: Yeah.

  • Gav: Maybe.

  • ( imitates splash noises )

  • ( chuckles ) That is absolute.

  • Dan: That looks like it's mist.

  • Gav: An absolute torrent.

  • You can actually see the goggles flapping

  • - against your face. - Dan: Oh, yeah.

  • And my cheek is going-- look at my cheek going.

  • Gav: A little bit of chest hair going.

  • Dan: All right here comes the torrent.

  • Gav: It's like you have an open chest hair.

  • Dan: That is proper sideways rain.

  • Gav: Oh, it's magic.

  • As the water bounces off your face,

  • it bounces off, but all like the same distance

  • before it gets blown back.

  • So you end up with those weird, like white, mist masks...

  • Dan: It's like a halo around my face.

  • Gav: ...just sat around-- look at that liquid.

  • - Dan: Oof! - Gav: You must have drank a lot of it there.

  • Dan: ( laughter ) I think so.

  • Gav: You gotta love that.

  • So, you said to me, you wanted to do a test.

  • Well, you know when you're like blowing a balloon and everything,

  • - you're blowing up a balloon. - Gav: Yeah.

  • I brought my own balloon and I thought I wanted to

  • try blowing up a balloon in a wind tunnel.

  • - Gav: Okay. - Okay.

  • - Gav: Yeah, that kind of a balloon. - Yeah, it's a balloon.

  • - All right. - It's a slippy balloon.

  • - ( laughs ) - You know, one of those lubricated balloons

  • Yeah.

  • The see-through party ones.

  • ( laughing ) Okay, let's see what happens with this.

  • Okay, here we go.

  • It's a condom.

  • ( fans whirring, air blowing )

  • ( screaming )

  • ( laughter )

  • That is without a doubt the stupidest thing

  • I've ever recorded in slow motion in my life.

  • Dan: ( laughs ) It was like a wind sock.

  • Gav: What have our lives become?

  • Dan: Look at my face. I'm enjoying myself so much.

  • It was going like this for ages,

  • I was like, stretch it.

  • As soon as I let the wind like even slightly stretch the edge,

  • it went-- whoa!

  • - Whoa. - Gav: Look how big it got.

  • - Dan: It's huge. - Gav: It's fobbling all over the place.

  • - ( slow motion screaming ) - ( laughter )

  • Gav: How do they-- like, why do you need different sized ones

  • if that's how big they get?

  • I saw that little twinkle in your eye.

  • The little idea twinkle.

  • You've come up with a new sport haven't you?

  • I have.

  • - You know you get sailboats and stuff? - Yeah.

  • - How about wind powered skateboard... - Yeah.

  • - ...Powered by a balloon? - Yeah.

  • So I'm gonna lay here... ( grunts )

  • let the wind inflate my balloon

  • and hopefully it'll have enough power to pull me along

  • like a rocket.

  • This is a world first, this.

  • I don't think this sport's ever been done.

  • I wouldn't have thought so, I'm very excited.

  • ( fans whirring )

  • ( laughs )

  • It's almost offensive the amount of effort

  • gone into a place like this

  • and then we show up and do that.

  • Yeah, for scientific testing purposes

  • - of automobiles and then, ooh-- - Have a look.

  • ( laughter )

  • There is definitely technique to it as well. ( laughs )

  • I'm just like, "I've got this."

  • Something about your flat hair with your smug face,

  • - with that flapping in the wind. - ( laughter )

  • Goodness, gracious me.

  • That was funny.

  • ( sharp exhale ) I've got a headache now after that.

  • It was just so much fun.

  • Well, that was absolutely insane.

  • I've never operated a Phantom

  • in such mental conditions.

  • You are telling me I've stood here

  • during this outro

  • and I feel like I'm like this.

  • - Like, isn't it-- - Preparing.

  • I'm like wait, oh, yeah, wait I'm not in there anymore.

  • At one point I was trying to steer,

  • 'cause the camera kept panning in the wind

  • and then I was holding it

  • and the screen started flapping around.

  • But somehow we got some very usable, lovely Phantom shots.

  • Yeah, it should be a test

  • whether you could be a good camera operator

  • if you can withstand those conditions.

  • - Yeah, for like-- - A hurricane category one against me as well,

  • - because I had the wind. - Yeah, I feel like I need a certificate or something.

  • Yeah, also, these propellers are actually from

  • a World War II bomber, which is pretty crazy I thought.

  • Yeah, well hopefully you enjoyed that video.

  • A big thanks to Horiba Mira

  • for letting us use this massive wind tunnel.

  • Make sure you check out part two

  • and feel free to subscribe

  • to the Slow Mo Guys.

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