What is the cheapest way to get from 0-62 in sub 4 seconds?
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Fastest 0-60 I've done was about 2.5 seconds in a sub 400kg fibreglass 2 seater with about 250bhp diesel engine. The trick is keep the weight down...by not carrying the engine with you.
Usually around £80 for a trial flight with a local gliding club.
Usually around £80 for a trial flight with a local gliding club.
Edited by RizzoTheRat on Friday 14th October 18:02
£95 is a bit expensive when you can do it for free if it's for a good cause.
http://www.skylineparachuting.co.uk/tandem-skydive...
http://www.skylineparachuting.co.uk/tandem-skydive...
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To serious answers: Thanks guys, I like the VX220 idea, I will consider that.
To bike answers: Thanks but no thanks, this form of transport will also need to get me to work, and I wear a suit - the idea of changing at work is a real polava bearing in mind I work 5 minutes drive down the road.
To skydiving answers: Sounds fun and it may give me the buzz i'm looking for, but I don't plan on skydiving into work everyday... so maybe not.
To jumping-off-a-cliff answers: Have you taken that for a test drive before? I wouldn't rate it...
To bike answers: Thanks but no thanks, this form of transport will also need to get me to work, and I wear a suit - the idea of changing at work is a real polava bearing in mind I work 5 minutes drive down the road.
To skydiving answers: Sounds fun and it may give me the buzz i'm looking for, but I don't plan on skydiving into work everyday... so maybe not.
To jumping-off-a-cliff answers: Have you taken that for a test drive before? I wouldn't rate it...
After 5 pages of replies, NOW you tell us you want to do it while wearing a suit and for the daily commute. 
The correct answer would still be a bike (with a textile oversuit, thousands do it everyday), but I suspect you will find some other reason to discount it. Next time state in your orginal post that the vehicle must have a roof and 4 wheels.
The correct answer would still be a bike (with a textile oversuit, thousands do it everyday), but I suspect you will find some other reason to discount it. Next time state in your orginal post that the vehicle must have a roof and 4 wheels.
Huff said:
1G to 62mph = 2.81secs.
1G to 60mph = 2.72secs
Conversely, 4secs to 62 = 6.91m/s^2 = 0.70G acceleration *average*
There's an awful lot of crap posted in this thread so far I doubt would actually achieve it.
Speaking of crap posted in this thread, all the skydiving replies so far are nonsense unless you're skydiving off something that's not moving, like a balloon. (NB this is very much like a base jump, and it's quite dangerous).1G to 60mph = 2.72secs
Conversely, 4secs to 62 = 6.91m/s^2 = 0.70G acceleration *average*
There's an awful lot of crap posted in this thread so far I doubt would actually achieve it.
You aren't going from 0-62 in a normal skydive. You're going from the speed of the jump plane horizontally (typically about 100mph) horizontally to about 120mph vertically. In skydiving parlance it's called "going down the hill". As such, there's actually very little acceleration, just a change of direction (so, for example, there's no "leaving your stomach behind" feeling).
Anyone wishing to argue the point should look at the thread title, specifically the "0" part of it.
The cheapest way to safely do 0-62 is probably to go on the intamin coaster at thorpe park, "Stealth"...
CraigyMc said:
You aren't going from 0-62 in a normal skydive. You're going from the speed of the jump plane horizontally (typically about 100mph) horizontally to about 120mph vertically.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolvingAnd revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
[quote]As such, there's actually very little acceleration, just a change of direction
JuniorJet said:
the idea of changing at work is a real polava bearing in mind I work 5 minutes drive down the road.
Assuming that you don't live and work next to a very quiet motorway:
Or, if it is a bit further, one of these:
If you're lazy:
I either cycle or I ride a 600cc motorbike 12.5 miles to work and there are no opportunities to do a (legal or otherwise) 4 second 0-60 run in either direction.
Edited by MC Bodge on Saturday 15th October 10:37
CraigyMc said:
You aren't going from 0-62 in a normal skydive. You're going from the speed of the jump plane horizontally (typically about 100mph) horizontally to about 120mph vertically. In skydiving parlance it's called "going down the hill". As such, there's actually very little acceleration, just a change of direction (so, for example, there's no "leaving your stomach behind" feeling).
Anyone wishing to argue the point should look at the thread title, specifically the "0" part of it.
Horizontal speed may well be whatever you are traveling at but unless the plane is in a dive the vertical speed would be zero. Anyone wishing to argue the point should look at the thread title, specifically the "0" part of it.
B.A.S.E Jumping isn't as dangerous and the kitten killers make out either.
CraigyMc said:
The cheapest way to safely do 0-62 is probably to go on the intamin coaster at thorpe park, "Stealth"...
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