How Top Gun Maverick’s Mach 10.5 stunt is physically impossible. #physics #topgunmaverick

Kinetic energy, the energy a body in motion has by virtue of being in motion, depends on the speed of the object. If you want to imagine the deleterious effects of an object in motion coming to a sudden stop, think about this: A car traveling at 60 mph has four times the kinetic energy of the same car traveling at 30 mph. The faster car is four times more likely to result in destruction if it crashes.

Neil deGrasse Tyson suggests thinking about what happens when you stick your arm out the window of a car at 60 miles per hour. It blows back. “Imagine doing 800 miles an hour and what that will do—it starts ripping you apart.”

[loganshipley]

The USAF have tested and built planes specifically for this reason, and they eject the whole cockpit and parachute to the ground.

[michaelbond]

Scott Manley has done an amazing video on this debunking this. He could've survived the mach 10 ejection easily

[ralphcoolbaugh]

Actually we don’t know how long after his engines shut down until he ejected. He may have decreased in speed and altitude significantly before ejecting.

[Julio_Tortillia]

1st, at higher altitudes, the speed of sound is slower, so mach 10.5 at 30 km is ~6600 mph/10000 kmh.

2nd, the air density at ~30 km altitude is so low, that going 6000 knots is equivalent to going ~350 knots at sea level in terms of air resistance so anyone who ejects has a very good chance of surviving and then slowing down as they go into the lower parts of the atmosphere as ejections have happened at such speed and the pilots have survived.

[dollarbill]

The F-111 had an ejection pod that ejected the entire crew in a closed pod.
It was used once and remains on display.

So if the DarkStar had a pod ejection system, he would have survived just fine.

[Thorloar]

At altitudes like the Aurora would be flying at Mach 10.5, the air density is very low. What would be important would be the indicated airspeed, or how hard the air presses on a surface pointed toward the direction of travel. At 125, 000 ft at Mach 10.5 the air outside would only be putting as much pressure on an ejecting Tom as ejecting at 414 knots at sea level, something countless pilots have survived without any problems. So maybe OP lady and Neal (he’s already been corrected on this) need to actually check the science before they try to check the science…

[RobertSmith-slov]

Check out B-58 Hustler or the XB-70 Valkyrie. Both designed to with Mach speed ejection

[peteconrad]

Scott Manley has debunked this debunk. Given the altitude there plenty of opportunity for a survivable deceleration and a temperature that’s entirely survivable.

[immortaldev]

He also ejected hundreds of thousands of ft in the air, meaning little to no atmosphere for air resistance

[jimmyb]

NDT also spent time to figure out how much Thor's hammer weighs and he still was wrong.

[Eric-gikg]

This has already been brought up..
We have no idea how long it was till he ejected.
If you look back in the history of the SR 71, there has been successful ejectisons. Even though the black bird was going more than Mach 3.
Pilots know When, and when Not to eject.

[chuckbowen]

I'm sure you are the type to tell a child he's adopted at his Birthday party.

[gregistopal]

Actually the plane could have been designed to have the entire cockpit eject so the pilot would be protected

[hdmplus]

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[WalnutZen]

Niel was complaining that the stars in the night sky of the titanic movie weren't accurate, the guy loves to hear himself speak

[SantiagoAntonutti]

I mean at that altitude he was probably going at 900km/h or 550mph of IAS. totally survivable

[JakeAvatar]

People like to make this argument while completely ignoring the fact that he is over 100k feet. There wouldn't be enough air at that altitude to cause any major G-forces or heating.

[Utubesuperstar]

Yeah they eject a cockpit capsule they don’t use a seat also people have survived supersonic ejections before there’s tons of precedent however not at Mach 10 to be fair

[Beagle_enthusiast]

Is there not a chance there was time for him to slow down???

[Slimfromcaseohsgroccery]

Bro doesn’t understand aviation technical advancements