Last time he took on a cheetah, this year he’s taken on a plane…
South African rugby star Bryan Habana pushed himself to new heights this week as he took on British Airways’ brand new superjumbo, the Airbus A380 in a 100m race.
Habana, who famously raced the cheetah in 2007 in an effort to save them from extinction, took on a new challenge racing British Airways’ ‘new animal’ in the race.
Weighing in at 95kg with a height of 1.8m, Habana is pictured preparing to race British Airways’ superjumbo of 366,000kg, with a height of 24m, a wingspan of 80m and 73m in length. Model, Georgia May Jagger was on hand to fire the starting pistol.
Peter Nye, Senior First Officer A380, said: “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. We got airborne at 140 miles an hour, where we then flew up to 600 miles an hour.”
Habana said: “It was a tough test of man versus machine. Once the A380 is on full throttle it picks up speed rapidly, but you need to tune in to the video to see what happened next…”
