I use to fly a lot before I bought my Vette. I use to love the feel of the jet engines kicking in on take-off.. I had not flown for over a year until two weeks ago… Have been driving the Vette since January.. Now, it might be my imagination but, that airplane thrust is nothing now that I have pushed the petal to the floor on my 06C6 a few times !!

 

hey I thought the same thing but I thought everyone would think I'm nuts.

 

I once got to take a ride in an F-15 Eagle. (I'm a mechanic and work on them). I won't say that the accel in a vette can compare to a double afterburner takeoff (64,000 lbs of thrust, climb to 16k feet strait up)....but it's the next best thing to it!!

 

Typical for a jet, but initial accelleration is s-l-o-w when compared to my Vette! Now dig it, I absolutely love my Vette. It's SCARY fast. But it can't do Mach. The airplane I fly (MD80) can't take my wife out for a joyride in the evening like my Vette can. And if they didn't pay me, I wouldn't show up. But the jet is a different animal. Like comparing apples to oranges.

And, like my wife, the Vette is wayyyyy sexier than the jet!!!

Mike

 

That F-15 probably had the Z-51 option.

 

Yeah . . I'm sure it must have . . I saw the emblem right below the canopy . . . .

Blasting off in the Vette - -it's a total kick - - isn't it ?

 

At 200 mph your vette is doing about Mach 0.25 at sea level...not bad!

 

Well, there are airplanes, and then there's the F15.

One of my dreams is to call the tower when #1 for departure and instead of asking for a straight out departure asking for a STRAIGHT UP DEPARTURE!! There's something to be said for an airplane that can accellerate going straight up!

The Air Force has the Streak Eagle at the museum at Wright Pat. One of the most fantastic airplane museums in the world. Anyway, when the airplane first came out they took the gun out of this particular airplane and stripped the paint. The pilot took off and climbed to fifty feet and accellerated to 550 knots. Then he yanked. Set the time to climb record which, IIRC, still stands today. He climbed to 103,000 feet in a little over THREE MINUTES. When in college we watched a video of this extravaganza which included a cockpit camera video located over the pilot's shoulder. The standby altimeter was visible (like us, they primarily use a HUD for instrumentation) and it was unwinding like a maniac!

Mike

 

Mr Mach 2.5 is really close!

According to my E6B, at a reported top speed of 192 mph with the mirrors folded back and a standard 59 degree F/15 degree C standard day at sea level, the Vette is going .280 mach.

How cool is that?????

Mike

 

Yah, I recall seeing holes in the brake rotors and an extra beefy rear stabilizer. Took a ride in a Concorde 20 years ago....takeoff was unlike any commercial jet...double the up angle and much shorter takeoff run. Fool with your cat back system all you want and it won't sound like the two big afterburners reverberating off the runway.

But the neatest experience was when the plane reached about 30,000 feet at .98M and the pilot told us what to expect as the burners were relit. The rear of the plane would drop and then we'd go up FAST. Now, I like the C6 real well. As Wally would say to the Beaver....it's real swell.

However, I was not prepared for the sensation of the plane being free in the thin air and getting hammered by the additional afterburner thrust. Talk about turbos.....

My wife and I were talking and then we both became somewhat disoriented. We later learned that was just our inner ears adjusting to a rate of accelleration never experienced before. The plane leveled off just over 50k feet, the sky turned purple, and a faint curve appeared on the horizon.

Of all the money I ever spent in my life on anything I didn't need this was the best spent. Darn shame nobody has the ***** to keep flying them.

Did I mention the windows was WARM to the touch at supersonic speed not cold as we expected so high up?

What a trip. The C6 is great but can't punch a hole in the sky. Well, having relived all this I think I'll go watch some vids of Saturn V liftoffs just for fun.......

who me, an adrenaline junkie? never. lol. I love it watching those five huge F1s light up. Strange days today when what we had in the past in terms of technology is superior to what we have today.

IMO all.

 

My Corvette is as close as I will get to pulling a Triple 7 off the Runway.

 

Went for a test flight on a 747 freighter a few years ago. Empty that plane weighs nothing. Max power takeoff was a blast and much better than any commercial flight I have ever been on. What was even better though was a full auto brake landing. My vette may have real good brakes but as fast as that 747 stopped really amazed me. Was glad I was in the first observers seat with full belts on. Lap belts would of cut me in two.

 

Hey, you are absolutely correct! I flew to Buffalo and Newark this week and I did notice that the acceleration was a bit lack luster on the 737-800's and especially on the Embraer 145. I guess the Vette has ruined it for me.

 

I flew F-16C's in the Air National Guard. Stopped in 1998 due to a cornea disease. Bought a '07 Coupe 400 miles ago. Next best thing to a fighter. I love sitting in my coupe - it takes me back to my "previous life."

Kurt

 

As a previous post mentioned, it all depends on the jet's weight. A near empty jetliner will accelerate very fast. An MD-88 at Max takeoff weight of 149,500 lbs will be a slow acceleration, especially if it's hot outside.

I'm sure almost everyone has thought about this though.

 

Indeed the acceleration of the C6 beats the acceleration of a typical loaded jetliner flight.

But I think the cool feeling you get taking off in a jetliner has more to do with Gs created by the initial fast increase in altitude leaving the pavement. In other words, it's not the straight line acceleration, but the rate of lift upwards. More of a rollercoaster effect than a straight line thrust effect.

If you ever get a chance to test ride a Triumph Rocket motorcycle (2300cc), go for it... then you will truly understand the feeling of thrust in a land vehicle. It feels like the skin is getting sucked off your bones, hard to breathe, hard to even focus your eyes. I can only imagine what pro drag racers must experience hitting 300mph+ in about 5 seconds the quarter.

 

Only up to about 150. My 767-400 kills it after that!
(Delta Airlines F/O, former Naval Aviator. E6A, LC130, UC12)

 

it definitly has my C-172 beat

 

Yeah, but we won't talk about cat shots!!!
(Also former Naval Aviator/Civilian Test Pilot: A-7E, F/A-18, F-4)

 

never got to do those, but my last tour was also at NWTS Pt Mugu (i ASSume thats where you are?)!!!!! I flew the Metro and C12 there though. Got out in 97