Racing jets

[Gary]

Number 1:  You could have the unlimited class, balls all the way out there for speed, but have ta fly IN the Grand Canyon below the walls. (goes real fast but steers like a brick would be bad)

Number 2:  The Airliner build. Using retired 727's 737's and so on recovered from the boneyards, these jets are reengined with nonafterburning engines and painted up like corporate whores and set to race along the coast of Baja or someplace where an accident is less likely to kill mass amounts of spectators.

Number 3: Straight wing 50's jets rebuilt to race. T-33's verses Panthers. A seperate swept wing singlr engined nonafterburning class could include Hunters against Sabers. The wilder the paint, the more fun.

[Hobbes]

these jets are reengined with nonafterburning engines

Spoilsport  
Afterburners would make things...interesting.  

[Mike Wren]

Number 3: Straight wing 50's jets rebuilt to race. T-33's verses Panthers. A seperate swept wing singlr engined nonafterburning class could include Hunters against Sabers. The wilder the paint, the more fun.

I started a couple of these a few fews ago, did a Skyhawk in a flame scheme & a black MiG-15, both from the ancient Airfix kits    

[lancer]

Number 1:  You could have the unlimited class, balls all the way out there for speed, but have ta fly IN the Grand Canyon below the walls. (goes real fast but steers like a brick would be bad)

Number 2:  The Airliner build. Using retired 727's 737's and so on recovered from the boneyards, these jets are reengined with nonafterburning engines and painted up like corporate whores and set to race along the coast of Baja or someplace where an accident is less likely to kill mass amounts of spectators.

Number 3: Straight wing 50's jets rebuilt to race. T-33's verses Panthers. A seperate swept wing singlr engined nonafterburning class could include Hunters against Sabers. The wilder the paint, the more fun.

Well, I'm open to No's 1 & 3. Should be LOTS of fun!!!

[Nick]

I did a racing Meteor last year in a shade of BMW red. Might follow it up with something else one day.

Nick B)  

[retro_seventies]

that sounds like a LOT of fun....

the cherry 7up dc8 is totally going to rule the airliner class, and a mint green venom fb4 would look killer lined up against banshees, phantoms, panthers, meteors, p-80s and f-89 scorpions.

swept wing single engined...is there a year restriction on this, or a performance restriction?  

this is VERY interesting indeed...

[Mike Wren]

What If? becomes reality...?

Peter Diamandis, the man behind the $10m X-Prize for suborbital space travel, has brought forward his new initiative: the Rocket Racing League.
The RRL will see Grand Prix-style races between rocket planes, flown by top pilots through a "3D trackway" just 5,000ft (1,500m) above the ground.



BBC news link

[NARSES2]

Saw that in this morning's Metro Mike - you beat me to the post !

Chris

[Spey_Phantom]

it reminds me of an old playstation1 game i used to play: N-gen racing.

you buy a fighter plane and fit it with new engines, winglets, canards,....
i loved that game.

ontopic: looks like the Reno races are getting competition  B)  

[The Rat]

Number 2:  The Airliner build. Using retired 727's 737's and so on recovered from the boneyards, these jets are reengined with nonafterburning engines and painted up like corporate whores and set to race along the coast of Baja or someplace where an accident is less likely to kill mass amounts of spectators.

Well, Clay Lacy once tried turning the pylons in a DC-6  

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Nice idea.... and I've got the old Heller F-84G sitting in the pile that was "Going free to a good home"....

A definite 'maybe' for next year (far too much to do this year ! )

I H-G