If watching frontline fighter jets isn't enough for you, try sitting still when you hear one is about to perform a 'performance take-off'!
During regular training sorties at RAF Coningsby, every now and then a Typhoon will depart on full power and carry out a 'performance takeoff'. The jet is airborne in no more than 8 seconds and then converts lots of its speed into height, but since the Typhoon has a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.2:1, it can actually accelerate whilst pointing 90 degrees nose up.
The Eurofighter Typhoon can go from brakes off to 36,000 feet at Mach 1.6 in under two and a half minutes. At sea level it can accelerate from 0 knots to breaking the speed of sound in less than thirty seconds.
All in all, a serious piece of kit - all made capable by 2x Eurojet EJ200 afterburning turbofans, delivering 20,000 lbs of thrust each.
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