GTEK question...

[Al]

Would anyone ever think about taking there gtek on a plane during takeoff?

I am just wondering what a jet would run in the 1/4 as well as 0-60 and 0-100.

[SMOKDU]

im not sure you could hold it tight enough.

[turbogarrett]

ask the pilot to stick it on the window :goof

[Teufelhunden]

ask the pilot to stick it on the window :goof
:rolf

[DCDZ28]

ask the pilot to stick it on the window :goof

LOL! :thumbsup

Actually that is an interesting idea. I don't know if it would fall under the "approved electronics" catagory though. ;) :-P

[Al]

It is self contained, so it isn't sending or recieving any radio frequencies.

You could probably secure it to the chair in front of you.

I might just send an email to Midwest airlines...

[CruxGNZ]

Good luck finding the exact weight of the plane. Would be cool though :cool2:

Some of the puddle jumpers I've been in feel like a 12-13 second vehicle, but more of a linear acceleration. :burnout

!M!

[Cjburn]

The problem with jets are that they do not accelerate like a car, meaning they accelerate at an exponential rate. The faster a jet engine can injest are the faster it will go. Jets do lag initially at the hit then get faster and faster until they reach take off speed. You'd have to do a rolling start on those guys...

[SMOKDU]

i dint think you will need the weight. thats just for hp and torque nombers

[BAD LS1]

Id bet a commercial jet wouldnt be all that impressive... they sometimes set you back in the seat hard but dont really pull that hard.

Lingenfelter had a test with a blue angel's FA18 hornet and a 650hp twin turbo Vette that ran mid 9s and the vette did actually pull on the jet and beat it by a small margin through the 1/4 mile from a stand still.

[Al]

The gtek would have some trouble finding a shift point, or it would think that it has an impressive torque converter.

The weight could be off, I just want to know 0-60 0-100 1/4mile.

Jets also like airflow like ram air. Thre is even an engine that will only work when the speed of the plane is over mach 1, they are called ramjets.

[Syclone0044]

This will definitely shed some light on the situation.

F18 Hornet drag races a Formula One car (http://www.dataflo.net/~mpurintun/videos/f1_Car_outruns_F18.mpeg)

And BlueBullet, that's an interesting question; I've had the same one, I just flew to NYC and back, and the plane flights are always fascinating to me. The jets I fly on seem to pull pretty hard on the launch. Usually the pilot actually "brake torques"/spools the turbines from a standstill and they take off harder, this time around they didn't seem to do it on either flight. But it was a new Boeing 717 (or was it 707).

[TransAm12sec]

I was told at the EAA event they raced GT-40 against a plane. The race started someone in the high 100 mph range.