Flying Elephant

There are many methods to perform this glitch, some more painstaking than others.

Method One
To complete this glitch you need to go to Forge on Sandtrap. Once you spawn, go into forge mode and spawn a Scorpion tank, take it to one of the Elephants and line the front of Scorpion with the back of the Elephant. Go forward and if done correctly, the Scorpion will be inside the Elephant. Go up and there you go, a flying elephant. You can take it all across the map. For more fun, flip it upside down and get at least 3 people on it. Once everyone is on, flip it. It might kill you and them but it will count as a splatter! Try it out some time.

Method Two
 Another method requires that you first remove all Fusion Coils and Plasma Batteries from Sandtrap using Forge.. Then, inside of an Elephant, spawn as many Fusion Coils and Plasma Batteries as possible -- preferably in the back area. Then, set both items' Run-Time Minimum settings to the highest possible values. From here, you may detonate the group of explosives using any method, though Hornet missiles can create an even more spectacular result than other methods.

First, the Elephant will buck from the missiles, but with the Fusion Coils instantly respawning, the force of the explosion will start to carry it skyward. Once the Elephant clears enough ground to begin orbit, it will not come down unless interfered with. Despite being very high in the air, the Elephant will only travel around the outer ring of the map, as there are Elephant-only invisible barriers that prevent it from going anywhere else.

This method has actually been described in a Bungie.net Weekly Update.

"Petar, one of our engineers, found a saved film from one of our testers playing on Sandtrap. He basically placed a RIDICULOUS number of exploding fusion cores on and inside the Elephant vehicle. They had their respawn times set to as close to “instant” as Forge allows, so that every time one exploded, it respawned. Now, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what kind of chain reaction this would cause once a single core was detonated.''


 * ''What we didn’t expect was the effect it had on the Elephant physics. Now the huge metal beastie is indestructible, but it has weight and mass in the game universe, so explode it enough and you can move it. Explode it with a never-ending cascade of fusion cores and you have the most dangerous Halo item ever. A vehicle big enough to park a Scorpion a Hog and two Mongooses inside, flipping around at incredible speeds and tumbling all over the map, releasing exploding cores and the occasional vehicle like some kind of satanic piñata."

- Frankie

Method Three
Proceed like method two, except after you place all the fusion coils, you the place a trip mine on top, then use the Immediate Spawn technique and throw them off the front. Then, before they explode, get in the driver seat, and drive on top of them. After so, hang on.

Method Four
This method is the easiest, quickest, and can be tweaked to perfection, by using Forge. Place a grav lift in the centre of the elephant on the bottom floor, near the holographic screen, and set its "respawn time" to 30 or more (not Never), and "resprang at start" to No. Start a new round, and quickly (depending on the respawn time set) go to the elephant which has the grav lift, (which should not have spawned yet) place one or two drop-pods were the grav lift would be. When the grav lift spawns in, the drop pods will be pushed by the grav lift, which will push the elephant in the air. More grav lifts and drop pods can be placed in different positions about the elephant, including the cockpit, to force the elephant in different directions.

Method Five
This method is very similar to method four, as it uses the "Grav lift-Drop pod" technique. Drive the elephant away from where it would start, place a drop-pod on the centre of where it would appear at the start of a game. You can delay the respawn time of the drop-pod if you like, as explained in method four. Now place a grav lift on the same spot as the drop-pod. Start a new round, and the grav lift will push the drop-pod into the elephant into the air from beneath.

Random Glitch Method
 You DO NOT need Forge for this method. Sometimes in matchmaking or large custom games, the elephant will begin to sink into the ground for some reason. When objects begin to sink in the ground, they will be forced back out. The reason why they sink is most likely caused by lag. In the case of the elephant, when it sinks too much, it will be shot out of the ground and the elephant will be sent flying. Usually it isn't sent too high. But in cases of extreme lag, it can be shot all the way across the map. In most cases, the elephant will simply do a barrel roll and land upside down which will give you the hidden elephant message. The more people and objects that are on the elephant, the more likely it is to glitch. A theory is that this is caused by the "bump" in Halo 3 where when you approach objects you can interact with, they will "bump".

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 * Elephant Flipping