Just for fun... Jet vs S4 1/4 mile
02-24-2006, 11:55 AM
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Just for fun... Jet vs S4 1/4 mile
I don't have enough money yet for any upgrades to my S4 so in the mean time I thought I'd do a little quarter mile action in my other daily driver a T-38 talon...
The quarter mile had to be estimated from the 1000 feet remaining boards (they're the little black boxes with white numbers on the side of the runway, watch for them next time you're in an airliner, that's how many 1000's of feet of runway are left.)
Also, I didn't have a groundspeed from the GPS (it doesn't kick on until you're airborne) so my "trap" speed was airspeed, in knots (1 knot = 1.15 mph) +/- whatever the winds were.
The aircraft weighs about 12,600lbs, and has two 2,900 lbs/thrust engines. The afterburners light after you release brakes and push the throttles to Max, which takes 1-2 seconds - I noted the time when they lit and was traveling ~ 10 mph (so I cheated a little, call it a street start)
1300' later I checked my airspeed and clock which was 13 seconds later at 115 Knots -> 132 mph
so there you have it, of course this just a WAG, but I'd say if you timed from brake release it'd run around 15 seconds in the low 120's. So a bit slower off the line, but then at a mile you're looking at around 220kts ~ 250mph I didn't catch the time for that one as I was airborne by then...
So a stock S4 would beat the jet to a quarter mile and kill it to sixty.
I've got a 2000 MT S4 stock... IMHO the greatest car in the world this side of a 911
The quarter mile had to be estimated from the 1000 feet remaining boards (they're the little black boxes with white numbers on the side of the runway, watch for them next time you're in an airliner, that's how many 1000's of feet of runway are left.)
Also, I didn't have a groundspeed from the GPS (it doesn't kick on until you're airborne) so my "trap" speed was airspeed, in knots (1 knot = 1.15 mph) +/- whatever the winds were.
The aircraft weighs about 12,600lbs, and has two 2,900 lbs/thrust engines. The afterburners light after you release brakes and push the throttles to Max, which takes 1-2 seconds - I noted the time when they lit and was traveling ~ 10 mph (so I cheated a little, call it a street start)
1300' later I checked my airspeed and clock which was 13 seconds later at 115 Knots -> 132 mph
so there you have it, of course this just a WAG, but I'd say if you timed from brake release it'd run around 15 seconds in the low 120's. So a bit slower off the line, but then at a mile you're looking at around 220kts ~ 250mph I didn't catch the time for that one as I was airborne by then...
So a stock S4 would beat the jet to a quarter mile and kill it to sixty.
I've got a 2000 MT S4 stock... IMHO the greatest car in the world this side of a 911
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02-24-2006, 12:29 PM
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Patrick Carpentier raced an F 18....
A couple of years ago they showed a clip of the Players/Forsythe champ car racing an F-18 in Canada. He smoked it to about 2000 feet then got rosted to the deck as the pilot went vertical. It was a cool vid.
