View Full Version : Did you know a motorcycle can outrun a helicopter?
Shawthing
09-06-11, 11:24 AM
Anyone else fed up with ITV4 TT comentators explaining that the helicopters cannot keep up with the bikes?
The one s on road wars can :) sure they have to say something i guess
My god yes. I've only watched it twice and I was fed up with them saying it.
There was also something else they kept saying but I can't remember what it was now!
Shawthing
09-06-11, 11:43 AM
Was it explaining Shellgrip? That also gets me!.
Youd think they might do some preparation and think of somethin else to say.
Motorcycle 205mph, Sikorski X2 299mph. Thyve got the wrong 'copters.
Noooooope wasn't that although I did get the idea it was grippier after the third time I heard it. Damn, I wish I could remember!
The Guru
09-06-11, 12:00 PM
Probably when Steve Plater was commentating and everything he said was "For sure" I know he was doing my head in..
Most choppers max out at about 180mph depending on weather. Those tt bikes are hitting 200mph
metalangel
09-06-11, 01:22 PM
The world record according Wikiwahwah is 249.1mph in a modified Lynx.
Is that air speed or land speed?
metalangel
09-06-11, 01:43 PM
Airspeed. Unfortunately the FAI's record site for rotorcraft is offline so there's no further details.
dizzyblonde
09-06-11, 01:48 PM
I know an org helicopter pilot, I also have a rather fast bike at the bottom of the garden.
Once upon a time, he was given the keys to it and took it on a bimble. Aparently on his return he handed back the keys drips white, and shaking, proclaiming it was faster than his heliflopter. Somehow he'd got it to the rev limiter, the owner hasn't got it that far up the rev range cause its stupid fast without doing so.
daveyrach
09-06-11, 02:37 PM
The world record according Wikiwahwah is 249.1mph in a modified Lynx.
Correct me if i am wrong but a Lynx is a piece of Military hardware not the same as the Helicopter by Bell etc used by news companys and TV crews?
thedonal
09-06-11, 02:58 PM
Anyone else fed up with ITV4 TT comentators explaining that the helicopters cannot keep up with the bikes?
It does seem to be a recurring theme.
A bit like Martin Brundle a few years ago and "The Ragged Edge".
good to see the coverage hasnt changed since last year, i have missed the coverage thus far this year, but remember the helicopter being outrun a lot last year as well
DJFridge
09-06-11, 04:21 PM
It does seem to be a recurring theme.
A bit like Martin Brundle a few years ago and "The Ragged Edge".
Don't mention Brundle - him and Coultard doing the VETTel / veTTEL rap every GP gets a bit wearing!
I bet none of those bikes could outrun Airwolf though.
Drumming_Animal
09-06-11, 04:43 PM
My god yes. I've only watched it twice and I was fed up with them saying it.
There was also something else they kept saying but I can't remember what it was now!
Is it Guy Martin not blinking? They seem to have said it a few times when it's been the camera looking up at him on the bike
metalangel
09-06-11, 05:31 PM
Correct me if i am wrong but a Lynx is a piece of Military hardware not the same as the Helicopter by Bell etc used by news companys and TV crews?
The Lynx is a military helicopter, the most popular chopper for news crews is the Bell JetRanger which bears a slight resemblance.
Probably when Steve Plater was commentating and everything he said was "For sure" I know he was doing my head in..
Its Parish...Steve Parish! (Pronounced:- Annoying eejit!)
Plater-man is a legend:cool:
kellyjo
09-06-11, 05:56 PM
Won't matter tonight perhaps - my sky box appears to have given up working :smt089
daveyrach
09-06-11, 06:18 PM
The Lynx is a military helicopter, the most popular chopper for news crews is the Bell JetRanger which bears a slight resemblance.
Do look similar, much prefer the Lynx though
davepreston
09-06-11, 06:24 PM
piffff
i cleared a typoon to hit 1800 mph tuesday
no thats not a typo
don't know about outrunning a helicopter. but i do know that you can sneeze and fart at the same time and its sore.
tactcom7
09-06-11, 06:28 PM
A Chinook is faster than an Apache...
davepreston
09-06-11, 06:40 PM
A Chinook is faster than an Apache...
they can all crash at terminal voelosity ;)
Airwolf does 350 mph.
and so can my fully fed flying pig :0)
tactcom7
09-06-11, 06:57 PM
they can all crash at terminal voelosity ;)
True, hopefully none of the ones I worked on! (Which is all of em)
Bluefish
09-06-11, 07:03 PM
Pppffftt, my satnav's got 350 odd mph on it
Shawthing
09-06-11, 07:50 PM
The world record according Wikiwahwah is 249.1mph in a modified Lynx.
Oficially yes But in wikiland
on 15th sept 2010 unoficially but happened
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_X2
300mph
The Guru
09-06-11, 08:35 PM
Its Parish...Steve Parish! (Pronounced:- Annoying eejit!)
Plater-man is a legend:cool:
No.. It was plater. He was a guest commentator on ITV 4's coverage with his broken arm.
DJFridge
09-06-11, 09:05 PM
Airwolf does 350 mph.
Stenno, I don't know if I'm impressed or disturbed that you know that. Mind you, that's without the turbo thrusters which took it up to "Mach 1+". Just found a rather sad end to the real helicopter on wiki
The flying Airwolf helicopter was actually a Bell 222, serial number 47085, sometimes unofficially called a Bell 222A. During filming of the series, the helicopter was owned by Jetcopters, Inc. of Van Nuys, California. The helicopter was eventually sold after the show ended and became an ambulance helicopter in Germany, where it crashed in a thunderstorm and was destroyed on June 6, 1992, killing all three crew members
OK, pop quiz, how fast was Blue Thunder?!
phi-dan
09-06-11, 09:21 PM
OK, pop quiz, how fast was Blue Thunder?!
Who cares? it had whisper mode :D
...
OK, pop quiz, how fast was Blue Thunder?!
Hmm. Are we talking fully laden or with the fuel light blinking? ;)
Surely they just have to go higer and use a better camera! Sorted.
xXBADGERXx
10-06-11, 01:44 PM
piffff
i cleared a typoon to hit 1800 mph tuesday
no thats not a typo
Yes it is .... it`s "Typhoon" :safe::smt063
Specialone
10-06-11, 01:52 PM
Surely they just have to go higer and use a better camera! Sorted.
Exactly what I was thinking, if they are higher they don't need to cover the same distance as fast surely, they can cut corners, don't have to slow for tighter corners etc.
hongman
10-06-11, 01:56 PM
Hey
Did you know a TT bike can outrun a helicopter?
No? Where did you find that out Hong?
hongman
10-06-11, 01:59 PM
Some TV program about a guy on a bike that doesnt blink.
And certain grippy corners?
xXBADGERXx
10-06-11, 02:01 PM
Anyone else fed up with ITV4 TT comentators explaining that the helicopters cannot keep up with the bikes?
Most choppers max out at about 180mph depending on weather. Those tt bikes are hitting 200mph
Hey
Did you know a TT bike can outrun a helicopter?
LOL ..... reminds me of "The Young Ones" episode .
"Oooh , have we got a video ?"
"YES WE`VE GOT A VIDEO"
hongman
10-06-11, 02:02 PM
lol :D
I must of missed the bit about the grippy corners :(
Specialone
10-06-11, 05:55 PM
LOL ..... reminds me of "The Young Ones" episode .
"Oooh , have we got a video ?"
"YES WE`VE GOT A VIDEO"
I loved that episode, well funny, and relevant as well cos at the time not everybody had one lol
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