bigfoot record jump

December 5th, 2006

Add yet another spectacular “first” to the long list of achievements and innovations belonging to the BIGFOOT monster truck team. Saturday afternoon at the Tennessee Aviation Days Air Show at Smyr.na Airport, BIGFOOT 14 and driver Dan Runte became the first to jump a monster truck over a jetliner. In the process, they set a new world’s record for monster truck long jump. Runte’s spectacular jump of 202 feet shattered his previous record of 144 feet.

The top of the jet, a retired Boeing 727, was about 14 above ground. BIGFOOT creator Bob Chandler estimated the truck was at least 24 feet in the air.

“I would never have believed that a 10,000 pound monster truck could fly that high and that far,” Chandler exclaimed. The air show crowd stood in stunned silence for a few seconds, then broke into wild cheering. “Was that an illusion?” an unidentified fan asked. No, the huge truck really did it, and has the scars to prove it.

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