Figuring that the truck needed serious help attaining the rotational momentum required to complete a full back flip, Millen devised a hinged extension to the ramp which kicks the front tires into the air and releases before the rear tires pass. More than two hundred practice jumps later, Millen decided the actual stunt would be executed using a CORR Pro Lite off-road truck. Several months before Millen's horrific landing, he and his team began experimenting with a 1/10 scale remote control vehicle. Though many factors contributed to Millen's ill-fated attempt to back flip a truck, it boils down to two variables: time and distance. Basem Wasef Anatomy of a Crash: What Went Wrong Here's how he plans to make that jump a sucess. Millions will see the event when it's broadcast live during Red Bull: New Year. He also gave us the scoop on how he plans to battle gravity once more at a secret location in the Nevada desert. We sat down with Millen to discuss the physics of what happened the first time. But Millen and Red Bull have announced they'll be at it again on December 31, 2008, attempting to achieve maximum hoonage in what they hope is the world's first successful back flip of a four-wheeled vehicle. The official event in Sin City never happened. But the New Zealand-born stunt driver, drifter, and all-around adrenaline junky suffered a hard landing last December during a practice session for the jump, fracturing a neck vertebra, breaking his back, and wrecking the truck in the process. Remember Rhys Millen's brash attempt to back flip a truck? It was supposed to happen in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve 2007.
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