World Record Truck Jump
The truck jumped an incredible 83 feet and 7 inches, which according to EMC and Lotus, who organized the stunt, is new world record.
Stunt coordinator Mike Ryan called it one of his dream stunts, in part because it was one he had never seen done before.
Why jump?
Why jump a giant semi-truck over a speeding Formula 1 car? If you’re EMC and Lotus F1 Team, it’s a unique way to demonstrate how we “Redefine Motorsports,” bringing the power of EMC technology to the Lotus F1 Team—and setting a world record in the process!
Stunt Driver and Stunt Coordinator, Mike Ryan drives his jack knife rig in a Verizon Commercial.
Verizon Television Commercial
Starting in 1990 on a Michelle Pfeiffer film “Love Field” Stunt Coordinator Bobby Minor, the Special Effects team and I developed one of the first semi trailer jack knife systems that would adapt to any trailer. Our system uses large caster wheels tucked in-between the trailer tires and mounted on a hydraulically actuated lifting device. The benefit that we have over the other jack knife rigs in the industry, that place a front-steerable axle on the trailer, is that you can shoot the wheels as the stunt happens on ours and we can control our closure rate all the way into a full 90 degree jack knife, keeping the tractor parallel with the road, with the trailer perpendicular, to fully block the roadway.
The Fast & Furious 7 Bus Roll
Mike has become the “go to” guy for big truck and bus stunts including Fast & Furious 5, where he did most of the big “bank vault” crashes and doubled Paul Walker pulling the vault out of the police department with Henry Kingi doubling Vin Diesel in the other Dodge Charger. He drove the tank transport rig in Fast 6, rolled the bus and jack-knifed a big rig in Fast 7 and did many Army Truck stunts in Fast 8. He cannoned a city bus in Captain America 2 and a Peterbilt tanker rig in Monster Truck. Then drove the green Dodge monster truck for the run of the film.
Racing
Mike holds 7 Big Rig speed records in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, 2 big rig records in New Zealand’s Queenstown Goldrush Hill Climb, and was the first and only big rig to race theMt. Washington Hill Climb and Silver State Classic open road race. Mike held a one-way Bonneville record in the “Modified Diesel” Big Rig class at 225/675MPH.
Typography is the art and technique
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point size, line length, line-spacing (leading), letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space within letters pairs (kerning).
Monster Trucks
A stunt heavy film!
Monster Trucks is a 2016 American monster action comedy film produced by Paramount Animation, Nickelodeon Movies and Disruption Entertainment for Paramount Pictures.