Hey guys ChrisFix here today I'm going
to answer that one question that's on
everybody's mind how far can an airbag
launch of football
so to answer that question i went to my
local salvage yard and i purchased a
bunch of airbags and a little fun fact
that I learned when you buy a bunch of
airbags the salvage yard is actually
supposed to report you to the FBI the
so FBI as you're about to see these airbags
are only going to be used for launching
footballs I promise
and speaking of footballs i bought a
bunch of footballs because well i think
we're going to need them and these
footballs are the official size and
weight of the NFL football and this
should give us a fun comparison to
something like an NFL kicker
so before we launch the footballs right
now is the perfect time for you guys to
take your guesses, comment below, let me
know how far you think we're going to be
able to launch a football by the end of
the video I definitely want to hear your
guesses i'm gonna guess 50 yards that's
my guess
if we could get it launched I'm thinking
50. alright so let's get started and the
first thing i want to do is I want to
show you how an airbag works and to do
that we're going to launch one and i
have a high-speed camera but the one
difficult thing about the high-speed
camera is somebody has to actually press
the button and run right before the
airbag goes off because this only record
for about three seconds and a thousand
frames a second since thousand pictures
in a single second takes a huge amount
of memory to record so quickly
so this adds a little bit of excitement
to our day so let's watch this thing in
slow motion
3.2.1.
and I can't believe it but our first
airbag is a dud
if you were relying on this for your
life this did not work the plastic
didn't break apart so the airbag didn't
even open it just opened off to the
sides
let's try that again with another airbag
so the only thing that I could think of
besides this being a dud is that we use
a 9-volt battery which isn't a typical
voltage in a car
typically get 12 volt in the car so
instead of using a 9-volt for this next
one I'm going to use an identical airbag
and we're going to use 12 volt so let's
try this again 3 2 1 alright let's
check this out
finally the airbag exploded just the way
we wanted it to
that's the difference of 12 volts and
nine volts so we're going to be using 12
volts for the rest of the day and with
that being said this is not something
you want to do at home this is not a toy
this isn't a joke and airbag get
seriously hurt you or kill you
I work with airbags all the time with
fixing cars so I know what I'm doing
this isn't something you should be doing
at home so we just saw how powerful and
airbag is now let's go see how far we
can launch one of these footballs but
first to measure how far the football
goes i'm going to set out cones every 10
yards and that last own mark 70 yards
from the goal line will the football
even get close
we will find out but that is a long ways
away next to brace the airbag I'm
counting a steel pole into the ground
and then our airbags going to be set up
right at 45 degrees since a 45-degree
trajectory will give us the furthest
launch and the team's gonna hold the
ball against the airbag so it's ready to
launch and I have a long length of wire
to keep me away from the exploding
airbag and here we go
how far will a football go for the first
launched three two one all right it
worked and that thing flew
22 yards not bad
let's check out the high-speed camera
and you can see the ball launches at
about 60 degrees but we want to launch
at 45 degrees for maximum distance so
let's try that again wire up the new
airbag and set the ball up to try to get
that 45 degree angle
let's do this ready 321 321, go, whoa, okey
30 yards 30 32 yards go check it out
so there's where the first one landed
all right and the second landed right
around here that's pretty good that's
about 30 yards this time we were close
to that 45 degree angle still a little
too high and as they say time flies when
you're having fun and we are running out
of daylight so what I want to do is I
want to see if we could get a field goal
using an airbag since this is our last
shot i'm going to try to be reasonable
so this is going to be like a 15 yard
field goal and if we check out how
football is lined up
it looks like we're going to split the
uprights so can we get a field goal
using an airbag let's find out right a
321
whoa 321 and it's good so I'm
just kind of curious it hit the flagpole
and it was still going
so let's get a measurement to the
flagpole I think we beat our record
going this way man that airbag launched
it so it's still in the air at the
flagpole hundred thirty feet so that's
43 yards and hit the flagpole could
still kept going on man that's exciting
so there you go the furthest distance of
today was 43 yards and that was using
afford airbag all right now that is a
rap that was really cool totally
different than what I normally do on my
channel launched in football with airbags
but that was fun, we managed to get a
football over 43 yards when we got that
field goal and we actually got a field
goal with a football and an airbag i
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