Nissan Patrol 2013 pulls plane to set new record in UAE
A 2013 Nissan Patrol was used to pull a “RUS Aviation” Ilyushin IL-76 cargo plane to set a new Guinness world record right here in the UAE.
The Patrol was apparently fully stock except for the special towing hitch and the sandbags of weight in the boot. The plane was also loaded up with sandbags to set a new record of 170 tons, pulled around 50 metres at a speed of a few kilometres per hour at the Sharjah International Airport. It sounds a lot more dramatic than it looks.
The previous record was held by a diesel-powered 2006 Volkswagen Touareg V10 TDI that pulled a 155-ton Boeing 747 near London.
Comments
donski
Volkswagen Touareg V10 TDI that pulled a 155-kilo (TONS)right? Boeing 747 in London.
Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury
Maybe it was a 155-kiloton nuke!
Ironman
155 Ton 😉
Farooq
Its seems weight was added in the trunk to increase the grip. No wonder it looks so low at the rear. If thats true, then isn’t it cheating?
Akshay
No actually look at the rod through which the plane is attached to the car. It automatically pulls the car down because of the weight of the plane
shafik
its funny how they show only like 10secs of pulling and have video of 1min “It sounds a lot more dramatic than it looks” for sure
INDIAN
Pfft…. we have PEOPLE in India who can pull airplanes
kevin
Lol, yes but what’s the use, unfortunately we are unable to pull down our corrupt politicians.
kevin
Well no one is going to tow that much in real life. Second thing something which is heavier multiple times as well as taller, if you try to tow, the rear will lift with power going to front wheel and that itself will end rotating at same place. Remember how cranes lift much bigger weight than themselves, but they use hydraulic legs to support themselves on ground, inspite of that we have lots of funny videos of cranes falling down when performing such an attempt. The engine wins here, by the way there are small but powerful and well balanced trucks out there in airport that tow planes day and night, with cargo, passengers etc.
torqy
I hope it was within warranty….
Asif
May be it was other way around…plane was pushing Patrol 🙂
Bobby
That guy whistling -_-
Mehdi / IRAN
Well,
I ordered one patrol 100’000$
This price for this car is reasonable
nawaf optima
they just want people to buy their crap product, and of course weight added in the trunk to increase grip.
Liakat
Flexing the muscles .Aircraft Vs Four-wheeler.
Hamza
real credit goes to engine and specially gearbox
moaz
shocked to see actually that none of the readers here every hitched a trailer behind a 4×4 in the land of 4×4 if you just Google the term “tongue weight” you would know why this car is low….when you properly tow a trailer on any car you always calculate the center of mass relative to the hing point from which it is being pulled… honestly i am surprised! and i don’t even own an SUV!
here is the article
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/auto-parts/towing/towing-capacity/information/tongue-weight1.htm
http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/towing-weight-distribution-2.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1027/738988663_0037062608.jpg
http://www.procarcare.com/images/shar/encyclopedia/tccs1005.gif
Hamood
he must have been flooring it