The Producers of the Blues Brothers had to apply to the FAA to certify a Ford Pinto. But unlike everything we’ve discussed, this was a Certificate of Air *UN*-worthiness.
To recap (and if you need more than a recap, stop reading this and go watch it), the Nazi Car (I’m telling you, you need to see this movie) falls off the top of a parking structure. It falls for 15 seconds, looking epic with the Sears Tower in the background.
But what if it didn’t fall? What if the Ford Pinto achieved in aerodynamics what it never could hope to in aesthetics? If it was too much like a wing, it would transmogrify from dead weight into a glider, and instead of smashing into concrete, it might hit a pedestrian, or worse, an expensive building.
Producers of the movie proved to the regulators’ satisfaction that a Ford Pinto would not, in fact, fly (a fact that was common knowledge among its drivers). Ford has never advertised that it is the only car that isn’t a plane, and can prove it.
To recap (and if you need more than a recap, stop reading this and go watch it), the Nazi Car (I’m telling you, you need to see this movie) falls off the top of a parking structure. It falls for 15 seconds, looking epic with the Sears Tower in the background.
But what if it didn’t fall? What if the Ford Pinto achieved in aerodynamics what it never could hope to in aesthetics? If it was too much like a wing, it would transmogrify from dead weight into a glider, and instead of smashing into concrete, it might hit a pedestrian, or worse, an expensive building.
Producers of the movie proved to the regulators’ satisfaction that a Ford Pinto would not, in fact, fly (a fact that was common knowledge among its drivers). Ford has never advertised that it is the only car that isn’t a plane, and can prove it.
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