If the fighter had been able to go supersonic, it would not have been close. The Bug was balls out as fast as it could go. The end would have been fun, too. He sees the plane go by, then Bam! Gets hit by the sonic boom.
Yeah, but the "zero" turning ability of the eurofighter was also in play here. If it had bee say and F-16 or some other traditional jet, the dayron may have won it.
The "Hamster", for it was he, is always up to that sort of thing. He got very lucky last year when he was rescued from a crashed dragster that had rolled at nearly 300 mph. At lest he won the race from some dead end place in Europe to Waterloo Station.
Someone made a comment that if the Eurofighter went supersonic it would have won by more. The Fighter can not go supersonic in a mile climb straight up. If it went supersonic on the way down it would not be able to make the pull up at the end. Someone else mentioned the zero turn ability of the Eurofighter. What do you mean by a zero turn ability. Did you mean to say turn radius.
I agree the jet did approx 4 miles 1 down the strip one straight up and one down and one back to the finish line approx. I think the jet blew his ass off.
The fighter may have had gravity on its side on the way down, but it had gravity working against it on the way up, and since it comes down faster than it went up, gravity has less time to help it accelerate coming down. It winds up being a small net disadvantage to the fighter.
The way the race was described, I was under the impression the jet was going to have to land on the runway and cross the finish line on it's gear. If that were the way the race was run, I think the car would have creamed the jet as the jet would have had to decelerate so much to actually touch down.
Perhaps if the jet did a touch and go across the finish line it would have been a close race
love to see that from the pilots point of veiw. the plane should have at least have had landing gear down, ready to touch down on the mile marker! Other than that, that was a cool video man!
In races between motorbikes and cars that happen to be faster, the bikers always snivel, "Yeah, but the motorbike is only $10k and that car is like $300k."
So I supposed one could make the same comparison here. Well, assuming that I was a sniveling biker.
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WOW! What an amazing race. I agree that both vehicles are way too impressive. no matter who won or why, just watching them is a cool experience, I can't imagine actually BEING there... wow and more wow!!!
down the run way then up a mile then back down the run way
down and one back to the finish line approx. I think the jet blew his ass off.
Perhaps if the jet did a touch and go across the finish line it would have been a close race
Other than that, that was a cool video man!
the bikers always snivel, "Yeah, but the motorbike is only $10k
and that car is like $300k."
So I supposed one could make the same comparison here. Well,
assuming that I was a sniveling biker.