James May's 20th Century - Eurofighter Typhoon - BBC Two

[fyrep0w3r]

one day

one day...

[khayum]

LOOOOOL@2:11 that smile says it all.

[raftornado]

standing start to 35000ft in 2.5mins to be precise. the lighting did it in half that!

i should know, i fly tornado :-)

[midnightmilo]

Climb rate of typhoon is c50,000 ft/min, they reached 6000 ft in ~20 secs; so the plane could climb faster under full military power. But up to say 40K ft it literally is like a rocket, it would keep up with Soyuz or the Space Shuttle.

[miccato554]

who is the pilot?

[TheOverloadChannel]

@miccato554 Flight Lieutenant Conan.

[sambo734]

i cant emagine how it would feel to fly those... out of this world :D

[TheOverloadChannel]

@sambo734 It's an amazing feeling, and I get to do it as a day job!

[sambo734]

he is one lucky guy.. id rather fly or ride in one of those.. than bloody be with my gf for tha day! srry bby but EF RULES!!!!!!

[mustanglead]

Can't believe I missed this.. May you are one lucky man! Typhoon has better thrust to weight than the Raptor and boy does that thing climb.

[bertyUK]

When someone like James May reacts as he did when they began to climb from take-off you know this is a very special machine indeed.

He has a good technical appreciation and this must have been the limit.

[incubusslayer]

can someone say what that automated voice was saying in that plane please? James is one luky SOB, man how I envy him :D

[wayhay1994]

THat is the best jet since the spitfire, despite the spitfire not actualy being classed as a jet.

[aimatunub]

haha im on a scholarship to be a fighter pilot

ive been in one before =]

honestly the real thing is so much better than it looks

[JVson002]

@aimatunub What was it like?

[carmichaelsj]

Lucky sum-a-bitch!

I'll have to wait 20 years when the Eurofighter is decommissioned and rides in it will still be like £10000... I'll start saving now.

[BohemianFish]

Eurofighter Typhoon is the Dee's Bees.

[crystalrain2k6]

He was not captain slow then! Lol

[Maximus1908]

"Flys like a homesick angel"

[mistral55]

all my relatives were test pilots,... Glen Miller, Buddy Holly, Jim Reeves, John Denver,...

[bollybib678]

lol captain slow at mach 2 at 9 gs!!

[blademanx]

This is a variant of the orginal 1 seater

[Andyboy747]

Wow! How fast does that climb!!

[pablomason635]

Andyboy 747 - From brakes on at the end of the runway to 20,000 ft in 90 secs.

[GooperUK]

i made the exhaust ductwork for the typhoons engines just up the road from Coningsby

[JoshR343]

Oh so thats why they blow up then? LOL!

But serously, I helped design the wings.

[jamesboz07]

I hope to be in RAF when i'm older fixing typhoons, my summer camp at RAF Coningsby was awesome --- Typhoons were buzzing round on loads of sorties when the russians were causing trouble, my dream to fly in typhoon, the engineer who works on typhoon said he has had a flight in one, so that makes me more determined to join RAF very soon!!!!

[JoshR343]

Keep it up, although I am not in the raf, I work for BAe, at the moment, I did pass training for the RAF Gunners.

[jamesboz07]

gdgd, ty, well hope 2 be in RAF soon anyway josh

[Typhoon1]

i did work experience on the Typhoons

[tai18]

luky get RAF conningsby the place for it!

[UKtonyUK]

bet clarksons jealous...and so am i, hope i get to work on these in RAF

[thevegetarian]

I would kill to do that

[mpetik]

Did anyone else see this last night on BBC 2? It was great. Very intoxicating. :-D

[amyjefferies]

would love to fly in that beauty.

[mpetik]

One of the things I'd love to do before I die, as well as parachuting.

[Markdorman]

Bet Clarksons done it twice. Lol!

[musketeerwang]

Just the once AFAIK, in a US F-15. And he puked.

[ogglefish]

lucky git