This is the directors cut of our jet fighter ad for Zoo Magazine. The whole concept of the advertising campaign was that we had £10,000 to spend on each advert, but instead of wasting the money on actors and graphics etc, we blew the cash on ourselves and just filmed that instead.
This jet fighter advert took place mostly in Cape Town. Unfortunately, it costs £8,500 to fly an hour in a Blackburn Buccaneer Nuke-Attack Jet (1960's-ish), so only one of us could actually fly in it. This was decided by the ancient game of scissors-paper-stone, on the runway, with the jet ready for the sorte next to us. AND I WON - GET IN!!
It's important for me to point out a few interesting "Steve-Facts" about this flight...
Firstly, modern RAF fighter pilots wear compression suits to keep the blood in their heads while taking large G-Forces... Sadly, we were only given black boiler suits. At the highest loading, I took 6G's in that Jet - suddenly increasing my body weight to 66stone - therefore I blacked out left, right and centre.
Ejector seats are the most frightening seats ever created. Small red strings are all that stop you from going from 0-200 miles an hour in a split second, vertically up. I suffer from "what does this little red DO NOT PRESS button do if I press it disease", so I was going mental sat in that seat. To be honest, using the rest of the antiquated equipment as a guide, i pretty sure if I had pulled that string in an engine failure the result would have been reminiscent of a Party Popper from Poundland - Phfut! Oh dear!
Oh yeah... And you don't get any sick bags!
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This is the directors cut of our jet fighter ad for Zoo Magazine. The whole concept of the advertising campaign was that we had £10,000 to spend on each advert, but instead of wasting the money on actors and graphics etc, we blew the cash on ourselves and just filmed that instead.
This jet fighter advert took place mostly in Cape Town. Unfortunately, it costs £8,500 to fly an hour in a Blackburn Buccaneer Nuke-Attack Jet (1960's-ish), so only one of us could actually fly in it. This was decided by the ancient game of scissors-paper-stone, on the runway, with the jet ready for the sorte next to us. AND I WON - GET IN!!
It's important for me to point out a few interesting "Steve-Facts" about this flight...
Firstly, modern RAF fighter pilots wear compression suits to keep the blood in their heads while taking large G-Forces... Sadly, we were only given black boiler suits. At the highest loading, I took 6G's in that Jet - suddenly increasing my body weight to 66stone - therefore I blacked out left, right and centre.
Ejector seats are the most frightening seats ever created. Small red strings are all that stop you from going from 0-200 miles an hour in a split second, vertically up. I suffer from "what does this little red DO NOT PRESS button do if I press it disease", so I was going mental sat in that seat. To be honest, using the rest of the antiquated equipment as a guide, i pretty sure if I had pulled that string in an engine failure the result would have been reminiscent of a Party Popper from Poundland - Phfut! Oh dear!
Oh yeah... And you don't get any sick bags!
This is the directors cut of our attempt to beat the record for the worlds longest scalextric track, as part of the ZOO MAGAZINE 2006 advertising campaign.
We had £10,000 to spend on track and little cars, that simple.
The pit-girls featured are the wonderful Nikkala Stott and Zoe McConnell from the Sun's Page 3 stable... Yes, we had it rough!
The track's distance beat the Guinness world record, which previously stood at 777.24metres. There was 1,105.57m of track in our record beating tangle of track, made up of 2,683 straights and 724 curves. The straights totalled 939.05m and the bends amounted to 166.52m.
To put it into context Mount Snowdon, the highest peak in England and Wales, is 1,085m.
I think it's important to mention that previous record attempts were very boring in structure and design, as they were just a series of very long straights and returning 90degree curves. We wanted to make our track not only the worlds biggest, but the most intricate in design. This naturally caused enormous problems, and headaches for the Hornby Scalextric guys that were helping us, but if you throw enough money at a problem it eventually works.
Enjoy.
One of our models got a bee sting, which we obviously found hilarious being naughty little boys. Singing casualty theme tune was a bit mean though (erm... not really, it was funny).