On a detachment a few years ago, an RAF Chinook crew suffered some banter from a fast jet crew about speeds and performance of pointy jets versus helicopters.
It was agreed to make a bet over rate of climb. A heli pilot would fly in the back seat of a Tornado and the time from brakes off to 10,000ft would be recorded. A Tornado pilot would then be flown in a Chinook and the time recorded.
The Tornado pilot roared off and up as fast as possible, in full reheat, rattling all the windows and scaring the locals. As the stop watch clicked, quite soon afterwards (only quite soon, it was a Tornado), the jet pilot smugly said: "There, beat THAT!"
So the Chinook lifted to the hover and ambled upwards.......
As it went past 9,990 feet the Chinook pilot announced "Brakes OFF".......
