We named the team after a lever.
In a Hawk, the throttle sits by the pilot's left hand. On race day, ours goes all the way forward when the Combat Corridor opens and stays there until the sortie is over. That is the whole idea behind Throttle Jet Team.
We run two Competition Units in the Jet World Championship. Each one is a Hawk, a pilot in the cockpit and a gamer on the ground. The 2029 season has fourteen rounds on five continents, and the rules say we have to fly the same aircraft type all year. We would have picked the Hawk anyway.
Thursday is inspection day. The jets get checked over, the radios get tested and the championship fits the pyro. Nobody flies until every form is signed.
Saturday is qualifying. Pilots get a feel for the airspace, gamers study the other teams, and the engineers see how the engines cope with the local heat.
Sunday is the Grand Battle. You get a point for every hit you land and lose one for every hit you take. This is the day the throttle goes all the way forward.
The Hawk.
Air forces have trained fighter pilots on the Hawk since the 1970s. It has one engine and two seats, and it reacts fast when you push it hard.
Round 01 starts in
First up is Lusail, just outside Doha, with the Grand Battle on Sunday, February 25, 2029. Thirteen more rounds follow, and three of those are in the US.
Look closely at the T.
The first letter of our logo is a throttle lever, pushed to the front of its track. We wanted the one thing we promise every weekend to be the first thing people see.
For our pilots, that means flying the Hawk right up to its limits. Our gamers keep the fight going when the pilot loses sight of the target. The crew has to get two jets ready again between sorties inside the time the rules allow. And our partners get a team that shows up to every round trying to win it.
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An Austin team in a world championship.
Throttle Jet Team is based in Austin, Texas. Three of the fourteen rounds in 2029 are in the US, in Austin, Monterey and Miami, and we plan to win at least one of them in front of a home crowd. We fly the BAE Hawk with two Competition Units.
Two jets and four seats to fill.
Every team in the championship runs exactly two Competition Units. A unit is one aircraft, one pilot and one gamer. The pilot flies the Hawk in the Combat Corridor, between 1,500 and 10,000 feet. The gamer fights from a station on the ground inside the official JWC game, and both of them score for the same unit.
We will announce each seat as soon as the contract is signed, and you will see the names here before anywhere else.
Seventeen people on the road.
That is a team principal, a strategist, three pilots and three gamers (two for each unit plus a reserve), a chief engineer with two compliance inspectors, four pit crew, two people in operations and logistics, two in content, and a commercial director.
We also keep a third Hawk as our Replacement Aircraft. Under the rules it can only fly if one of the main jets is written off, so the crew's real job is keeping it in the hangar.
| Base | Austin, Texas |
|---|---|
| Home rounds | Austin, Monterey, Miami |
| Declared airframe | BAE Hawk |
| Competition Units | 2, plus one Replacement Aircraft |
| Entry | Confirmed, license signed |
News
The Hawk.
More than a dozen air forces have trained their fighter pilots on the Hawk over the last fifty years. It runs on a single Rolls-Royce Adour turbofan, seats two people one behind the other, and was designed to be flown hard every day. One other team also picked the Hawk for 2029, so the Airframe Award comes down to the two of us.
Why we picked it.
The rules allow six aircraft types. We went with the Hawk for three reasons: it turns better than the others at Corridor altitudes, its engine is easy to look after on the road, and plenty of pilots already know it inside out.
| Type | BAE Systems Hawk, single-engine advanced jet trainer |
|---|---|
| Engine | Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour turbofan, about 5,200 lbf |
| Maximum speed | 1,028 km/h, Mach 0.84 at altitude |
| Rate of climb | Around 9,300 ft/min |
| Load factor | +8 g / −4 g |
| Length | 11.17 m |
| Wingspan | 9.39 m |
| Height | 3.99 m |
| Crew | Pilot up front. The rear seat holds the gamer link and the JWC combat system. |
| Combat system | The championship supplies and installs it: hit sensors on the airframe, a pyrotechnic hit effect and a HOTAS VHF radio. |
These are published numbers for the Hawk trainer family, and they vary a little from one version to the next. The final figures for our race jets come out of the pre-season Aircraft Compliance Inspection.
Adour
Student pilots are hard on engines, so the Adour was built tough. That is a big reason we can get the Hawk ready again in the short gap between sorties.
The quadrant
The throttle is one lever on the left side of the cockpit. On Sunday our pilots keep it pushed all the way forward. Yes, that is where the name comes from.
The wing
The wing sits low and is only slightly swept back, which gives the Hawk the best sustained turn in the field. Most fights in the Corridor go to whoever can keep turning the longest.
Livery.
Our jets are gloss black. One yellow stripe runs from the nose down the side and stops at a short white bar just in front of the tail, the same way the lever stops at the front of its track. The race number is yellow and sits on the nose, the logo goes under the canopy, and the spaces for partner logos are already marked out.
Fourteen rounds, three in the US.
The first Jet World Championship season starts in Doha at the end of February and wraps up in Miami the weekend before Thanksgiving. Every round runs from Thursday to Sunday, with the Grand Battle on the last day.
Until the Grand Battle in Doha on Sunday, February 25, 2029.
Our home rounds are the three in the US. Dates come from the published Season 2029 calendar and can still change under the championship's sporting rules. There is a freight break in the middle of the season on September 1.
How scoring works.
Land a hit and you get a point. Take a hit and you lose one. Points from pilots and gamers all go toward the team total, and whoever has the most at the end of the season is World Champion. If two teams finish tied, they fly one more sortie before anyone goes home, and the first hit wins it.
There are four awards at the end of the year: Best Team, Best Pilot, Best Gamer, and the Airframe Award for the aircraft type with the most points. Only two teams fly the Hawk, and we want that last one.
Put your logo on a race jet.
A league deal puts your name on the series. A team deal gets you a jet in your colors, two pilots, two gamers and a result to talk about every Sunday. We sell our own partner spots at four levels, and every round is backed by the marketing the championship has already committed to.
Your logo on the nose of the jet and on the gamers' chests, and your name in the team name. There is only one of these, it is exclusive, and you get the first chance to renew.
Your logo on the side of the jet, the gamers' sleeves and the pit crew uniforms, plus appearance days with our pilots and gamers for content or client events.
Your logo on the tail, the wings and the gamers' caps, and in the digital overlay on the broadcast. How much suite access you get depends on the level.
Our team colors inside the official JWC game, plus our social and video channels, sold one market at a time.
What every partner gets
Your brand on the jets and on team gear at all fourteen rounds, the right to use our logos, content we make together all year, a spot in the game, hospitality based on your level, and a report after each round showing what you got.
What we cannot sell you
Category exclusivity and the Official JWC title belong to the league, not to us. If your category is already taken at league level, we clear the deal with JWC Holdings before anyone signs.
Next step
We price every deal on its own. Ask for the 2029 partnership deck and we will set up a call with our commercial director.
Request the deck.
Leave your details and we will send the deck, then follow up to find a time to talk.
Store.
This is the same gear our pilots and crew wear, in the same black and yellow. Orders start shipping when Round 01 kicks off in February, and anything in your bag stays saved until then.
Bag.
Watch from the Corridor.
At every round, our suite sits right next to the Combat Corridor. Guests get a paddock tour and time with our pilots and gamers. Thursday is quiet, so it is the best day for clients you actually want to talk to. Sunday is for the ones you want to impress.
Thursday
The jets arrive and go through inspection. It is the calmest day of the weekend and your best chance to see the crew, the hangar and the aircraft up close.
Saturday
Qualifying day. The suite opens with the first sortie, and our strategist stops by between sessions to explain what is going on.
Sunday
The Grand Battle. You get seats facing the Corridor, a live feed from the gamer stations inside the suite, and the final result at the end of the day.
Book one round or all fourteen.
One round makes a great client day. A season package gives your company the same suite with the same team in fourteen cities, so you can plan the whole year around it.
Ask for availability.
Tell us which round you want, or the whole season, and how many guests you are bringing.
Come work with us.
Seventeen people keep two jets racing across fourteen rounds. Everyone on the team signs the championship's Participant Agreement, and we hire people who want to be the best in the paddock at what they do.
Pilots need a commercial pilot certificate with a jet type rating, an ICAS ACE card with the dogfight endorsement and a current medical. Pit crew must be 18 or older. Almost every role travels to every round.
Apply.
Tell us which seat you want. You do not need to attach anything yet, and we will reply with where to send your resume.