Aerial Performers

USAF Jet Car

 

USAF Jet Car

Hear the deafening roar of an engine, see billowing clouds of smoke, feel the reverberations of mini sonic booms.  On the taxiway sits the Air Force Reserve Jet Car preparing to accelerate. 

 

Before beginning his show driver, Bill Braack, slowly drives past the crowd.  He engages the afterburner which shoots 20-foot flames, producing billowing smoke and mini-sonic booms.

 

At the end of the runway, the jet car comes to a standstill, an airplane above has challenged Bill to a race.  Jaws drop as the aircraft approaches.  Bill is signaled by his crew member Erik Ricketts, that the aircraft is directly overhead.  He kicks in the afterburner and accelerates the Jet Car. He races at speeds approaching 400 mph and overtakes the plane in seconds.  Eyes blinking, the crowd is astonished at what it has just witnessed.