Wow.What a huge waste of money.
not really - I am pretty sure Scotland yard have a few lambos as well - its hard to pull someone in a supercar capable of doing 200+ mph when your patrol car tops out at 150 mph.Hell most helicopters don't get much above 150 mph - the lynx is rated to 200 Mph and the record is for 249....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBB/Kawasaki_BK_117Max. Speed 155km/hThis is a similar model to the Lifeflight Rescue Helo down here in Welly.
This really isn't a question about speed, it's about staminaSo a bike is only going to sit on 300km/h for half an hour before its tank is empty? so the furthest you can go from any point is only ~150kmA police helicopter can top out at 280km/h, but can do so for much longer (I think it'd be about 4 times longer, but as we're about to see it only needs to be a little bit longer)Given that you can only out run a police chopper in basically a straight line we'll run with the following:The police helicopter would get 139km before you ran out of gas at 150km, so it's 11km away, and closing at 278km/h which gives you 2 minutes and 20 seconds to refuel and/or find somewhere to hide.So I'd only attempt a runner from a helicopter if I was on an adventure bike, I'd hike it into the high country where no cop car could follow, and just work away at the helicopter and hope he ran out of gas first, this would give me at least 40 minutes (they have a 20 minute reserve tank) to refuel and find somewhere else to hide.
they definitely need to put bigger engines in them
*Links to Wikipedia articles where it states 155 mph.*Posts 155 km/h on forum.
1: public image - if the average clientel in an area are able to outrun or outgun the police then the police look bad (and certainly dubai would meet the critiera of having average clientel owning supercars)2: Psychological factor - if I am hooning away from the police in a powerful car and leaving the average police cars behind and then suddenly I have a lambo on my tail that is able to match me corner for corner, speed for speed - it provides a huge psychological motivation to give up - you know that you aren't going to be able to get away, might as well give up.
I have shamed myself, I must commit sepuku!However, before I go and make a mess of the lounge carpet, I would point out that cars have to drive on roads and go around corners, helicopters don't.
I'm not sure if many people in a car chase think this at all, of all the car chases I've seen from american television it's always a fat american in an average piece of shit being chased by more fat americans in equally piece of shit cars.America is a bit of a key factor there though...
helicopters have a hard time changing direction, bikes on the isle of man leave them standing.
Too true on that point - there was a UK based cop show though where a guy in a Porsche out drove the Police Heli, and all the pursuit cars, he ended up parking the car, calling his lawyer and then waiting for the police to catch up.I wish I could remember the series name but alas it escapes me.Another point to raise is Cruising speed vs Vne (velocity never exceed) a lot of the figures quoted in this thread for heli speeds are for Vne, which even the bravest pilots are unlikely to sit at Vne for very long periods of time (as generally they run the risk of retreating blade stalls or exceeding the structural limitations of the air frame - both of which aren't very wise)generally even when pushing it, most pilots will sit 10-20 Knots under Vne to make sure that a gust of wind doesn't push them over or that they aren't over-stressing the air frame.
I know some 3 Squadron pilots that can thrown an Iroquois around pretty well!Also, we were talking about cars, now you're talking about bikes? Back to the lavatory with you!
People like this is why they can afford to and need to have Lambo's as their squad cars.
Do you not have goons following you round handing you cash like that? Sheesh! Monkeys..
