Watch This Twin-turbocharged Porsche 911 Gt3 Rs Outrun A Helicopter

Remember that clip "Top Gear" raced a Bugatti Veyron against a Eurofighter Typhoon? The car mislaid that race, and contempt nan Veyron's immense capabilities, nan numbers were stacked against it. Fast-forward to nan present, and nan Officially Gassed YouTube transmission has arranged a much evenly matched title betwixt a Porsche and a helicopter, because nan Porsche's capacity is conscionable that good.

The 992-generation Porsche 911 GT3 RS is an astonishing car, pinch progressive aero and physics alchemy that make this thoroughfare car connected thoroughfare tires faster astir nan way than a title car connected title tires. We've tested this ourselves. But nary of that matters successful this race, only straight-line acceleration. ES Motor has turned up nan already basking wick of the 4.0-liter people aspirated flat-six motor by adding 2 turbos, bringing its stock 525 horsepower up to 870 bhp (or 768 astatine nan wheels). That enables nan astir 3,600-pound car, including nan modifications and driver, to get retired of its measurement rather quickly.

That matches up nicely pinch the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X helicopter that HelixAV brings to nan race. The exemplary sanction refers to nan 505 horsepower produced by its Safran Arrius 2R pitchy engine. Though little powerful than nan Porsche, nan chopper weighs conscionable nether 3,000 pounds, helping to dress up for that loss. It besides doesn't person to interest astir traction aliases driveline losses.

The car and chopper compete successful 3 half-mile races, skipping nan quarter-mile because they want high-speed shenanigans. The first title is from a "rolling" commencement (with large aerial quotes for nan helicopter) from 50 mph. The Porsche gets an instant jump and leaves nan chopper eating its dust, though providing immoderate awesome shots that look for illustration an action movie chase on nan way. The 2nd title originates pinch a opinionated start, and nan car dominates moreover more, finishing pinch a five-second spread by nan extremity of nan half-mile. For nan 3rd race, nan Porsche makes a opinionated start, while nan chopper gets a 60-mph "rolling" start. Even pinch this important disadvantage, nan Porsche is quickly gaining connected nan chopper by nan half-mile mark, but it doesn't rather adjacent that spread successful time.

The Porsche's capacity figures during these races are rather impressive. From nan opinionated start, it did 0 to 60 mph successful 2.98 seconds, and nan 4th mile successful 10.56 seconds astatine 144 mph. By nan clip it crossed nan decorativeness statement astatine half a mile, it was up to 174 mph. That's faster than nan Bell 505's apical speed, which happens to beryllium nan aforesaid 144 mph nan Porsche was up to halfway done nan run.

Despite its power, an craft pushes against air, not coagulated ground, and that's ever going to slow its acceleration. According to OG's estimates and their disposable data, nan chopper did zero to 60 successful 8 seconds and vanished nan 4th mile successful 18 seconds astatine 97 mph, which are beautiful slow numbers by Porsche GT3 standards. By nan extremity of nan half mile, it was up to 132 mph. Its advantage, however, is nan expertise to support specified speeds without slowing down aliases stopping for traffic, obstacles, aliases speed traps. The only velocity limits successful nan aerial are 250 knots (288 mph) beneath 10,000 feet and subsonic speeds complete land. That's why nan craft will triumph immoderate title complete distance, astatine slightest unless James May is flying.