An the Winner is ...????

FlashDrive (Poppy) · #1 24-09-2012, 02:38 PM

Obviously a ' race ' was set up between these 2.

Gentleman ... please place your bet's ..!!

Flash ..!! I wager the Tornado ' won ' this.

Varangian (John) · #2 24-09-2012, 02:55 PM

Whoa! Is that the first travel at the speed of light car, cause if it is that Tornado does not stand a chance!

multiweb (Marc) · #3 24-09-2012, 02:58 PM

That was a top gear episode. The plane took oof went 1 mile up and down while the car did a UI at the end of the runway and came back. The plane won.

pluto (Hugh) · #4 24-09-2012, 03:02 PM

Marc, I think you may be thinking of the Top Gear 'race' between the Bugatti Veyron and the Euro Fighter Typhoon.
A quick google reveals this as the source of that pic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNY_4yeXSUk

FlashDrive (Poppy) · #5 24-09-2012, 03:36 PM

Thanks for the ' link ' Hugh'

I won by bet ....

Flash .. !!

koputai (Jason) · #6 24-09-2012, 06:37 PM

Yep, when the Tornado's off the deck with it's wheels up, the wog chariot doesn't stand a chance!

Cheers,
Jason.

Octane (Humayun) · #7 24-09-2012, 06:50 PM

Is that the Reventon?

RobF (Rob) · #8 24-09-2012, 08:55 PM

Nice panning in the shot to blur the background but keep the plane and car sharp!

wasyoungonce (Brendan) · #9 24-09-2012, 10:04 PM

I was at Williamtown back in early 80's....we had a Lambo take on a Mirage III0 over 400 metres.

Mirage won...well they did use a dual aircraft (lighter) with one pilot and min fuel load.

Lambo took of nicely but III0 reeled it in real quick from ~300m mark.

edit:
Well I'll be blowed...a video of the event on youtube, here.

pluto (Hugh) · #10 24-09-2012, 11:16 PM

Wow! thanks Brendan, that was VERY cool :-D

Yes it's the Reventon Humayun.

Octane (Humayun) · #11 24-09-2012, 11:30 PM

Thought so. Do want.

ourkind (Carlos) · #12 25-09-2012, 06:55 AM

The most painful day of my life was when I had to return my Lamborghini Gallardo after a 3 day hire

Yes it was all mine for 3 days!!!

I didn't sleep for 3 days either

ourkind (Carlos) · #13 26-09-2012, 02:55 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/chinese...100313567.html

bloodhound31 (Barry) should add this to his list of projects ...

The_bluester (Paul) · #14 26-09-2012, 07:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wasyoungonce

I was at Williamtown back in early 80's....we had a Lambo take on a Mirage III0 over 400 metres.

Mirage won...well they did use a dual aircraft (lighter) with one pilot and min fuel load.

Lambo took of nicely but III0 reeled it in real quick from ~300m mark.

edit:
Well I'll be blowed...a video of the event on youtube, here.

Scary how little Willytown seemed to have changed, I was there in the lat 90's. Even saw the old SURAD RADAR I used to work on in the clip. They only decommissioned that in 2000!