Bryan Habana, a South African rugby player, raced a commercial jet in a video released this week, according to FOX News. The 30-year-old athlete from the Western Province of the country won the amazing race against technology.
Habana, a rugby wing, famously raced a cheetah in 2007 to raise public awareness of the endangered species. The rugby player recently accepted a challenge that seemed impossible, racing a British Airways jet plane in a 100-meter race.
"It was a tough test of man versus machine," Habana told reporters. "Once the A380 is on full throttle it picks up speed very rapidly, but you need to tune in to the video to see what happened next."
Looking at the race statistically, the win seems crazy.
"Habana is fast but had stiff competition with four Trent 900 Rolls-Royce engines, each one producing 70,000 pounds of thrust and accelerating very quickly indeed," Peter Nye, a Senior First Officer with British Airways, said. "We got airborne at 140 miles an hour, where we then flew up to 600 miles an hour."
Bryan Habana is 30 years old and weighs 207 pounds at a height of five feet, eleven inches. The British Airways Airbus A380 is 24 meters high at a length of 73 meters and a weight of 808,000 pounds.
Habana was then joined by his fellow teammate Jean De Villiers, as well as Chris Robshaw, and English rugby captain, to try to tow the British Airways Airbus A380 down the runway, all 808,000 pounds of it.
This victory against the jet plane follows the reveal, earlier this month, of the physics behind the sprinter Usain Bolt's performance at the World Championships in Berlin. There, the Jamaican athlete ran 100 meters in 9.58 seconds, which broke the world record as the athlete triumphed against the cadre of aerodynamic hurdles that were against him.
The race between Habana and a jet plane.
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