00:01This Tesla is upside down, 20 meters up, and it's not falling.
00:07Then it lets go, flips in midair, and lands on its wheels.
00:11No human is inside.
00:13How?
00:14Two tricks, and both are just air.
00:17First, the upside down part.
00:20Right now, air presses on you with about 10 tons on every square meter.
00:25Under the car, fans suck that air out, and seals stop it from sneaking back in.
00:30With less air below, the air outside pins the car to the ramp, like a vacuum cleaner stuck to your
00:36hand.
00:37Tesla says that grip can reach twice the car's weight, enough to hold it upside down.
00:43Now the landing.
00:45Off the ramp, the suction is gone, so air does the opposite job.
00:49Hidden inside are two carbon fiber tanks with about 250 kilos of squeezed air, feeding 10 nozzles, four at the
00:58back, the rest around the car.
01:00Think of a balloon you let go.
01:02Air rushes out one way, the balloon flies the other.
01:05Puff air from one side, and the car spins upright.
01:09Puff the other side, and the spin stops.
01:12Jets slow the fall, and it lands safely.
01:15A hop, not a flight.
01:16Blast air out the back, and it shoots forward.
01:20Tesla says the rocket version will hit 60 miles per hour in under 0.59 seconds.
01:27SpaceX uses the same trick to flip its rockets in the sky.
01:30So, it's not magic.
01:32It's air.
01:33Pulled out to stick.
01:35Pushed out to land.
