The paper describes the car motion when the contact between its wheels and the road surface is lost. A simulation of such car motion was carried out using a mathematical package “Maple 6†for the two cases: • The car flies off a horizontal surface; The car runs over a springboard. The dependencies of the main parameters of motion (velocity Va and distance S) upon the height H of the horizontal road step or upon the springboard height and its inclination angle (in the second case) a were found. The work presents the graphs of these motion parameters and evaluates the influence of air resistance in both cases. First Published Online: 27 Oct 2010
