---
title: "How Much Air Can One Get in a Willys Jeep?"
description: "Enough to scare an Army cadet."
date: "2016-01-06"
modified: "2016-01-06"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/1532/how-much-air-can-one-get-in-a-willys-jeep"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "History"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Jeep"
  - "vintage"
---

# How Much Air Can One Get in a Willys Jeep?

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When one thinks of the United States Armed Forces taking to the skies, one pictures a plane. How trite! Of course, with enough verve and pluck and speed, most any vehicle can become airborne. Sometimes, for example, the army delivers multi-ton tanks to ground forces via airdrop. Take a gander at [this video](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50cpPAVoxJQ>), in which four M551 Sheridan Light Tanks float down thousands of feet from a cargo plane like so many heavy-artillery-equipped dandelion puffs. The Army has done similar things [with boats](<https://www.britishpathe.com/video/airborne-motor-boat-aids-rescue/query/Airborne>). And, in Texas in 1943, a duo of drab-clad youths once took an unsuspecting Willy’s Jeep toward the sky to, quote, “Prove They Can Take It.” The driver is out of his seat, enthralled; the passenger is bracing for impact. That’s because, of course, any old person can take sailing through the air in a Jeep—it’s surviving the landing that takes mettle.

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

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