A Tight Race with a Plane

"QUANTUM SHOT" #166 Formula One car "Spyker F8-VII" takes on F-16 fighter jet - Guess who wins? More than ten thousand spectators gathered at the Royal Netherlands Air Force base in Volkels, Holland, to witness an astonishing "Full Throttle" racing event: A Spyker F8-VII race car, powered by a Ferrari engine, and "piloted" by Formula One driver Christijan Albers went head-to-head against Air Force pilot Ralph "Sheik" Staal's F-16 fighter jet. (images credit: Autojunk.nl and Motorsport-Total) The Spyker F8-VII was faster than the F-16 over the first 300 metres. However at the closing meters of 1 kilometer race, the plane just proved to have more acceleration. They finished with only two car lengths difference. "It was a tight race..." said Albers. 450 km/h in 15.5 seconds. If James Bond needed to catch that F-16, chasing it from his car, he would need the help of some special effects. No car can do it yet, but the race is getting tighter. Here is a picture of another race - this time with a big rig: Now up the stakes: Lamborghini Reventon vs. the fighter jet (a Tornado F22) at the Ghedi airport in Italy. The Lamborghini Reventon almost won the race! Here is the video of this event: url The spectacular sight of a jet fighter accelerating on a highway brings me to another topic: The Low-Flying Aircraft The following are photos of extremely low-flying planes, taken mostly at air shows. Starting with the Chinese "Su-30 Zhang Jia Jie": (image credit airliners.net) (images credit: www.f-16.net) Belgian MT-48 training airplane flying pretty low: (Photo by Remco Donselaar, airliners.net) Fly-by stunt over Nuclear Aircraft Carrier (click to enlarge): (image courtesy: wrongcrowd.com) These people should get away from C-17 cargo plane, and quickly: (Source: Doug Stephan) Category: Airplanes,Auto, Sports