Airshow acts have a car racing up and down the runway burning rubber throwing U-turns while a plane roars overhead and does stall turns at the ends of the runway. Like professional wrestling, the winner is chosen beforehand.
This doesn’t mean that the whole idea of plane vs car races is a bad one. Thirty years ago, Aero Africa magazine did a proper comparison. And now Sling Aircraft have done a race between a Sling TSi and the airlines. To their credit, the Sling race was a real challenge, and with typical Sling bravado, it was ambitious.”
– Guy Leitch (SA Flyer)
