[simpits-tech] Long read - but WORTH IT!

[Andre Breytenbach]

Sounds plausable! Just a few queeries on the JATO:
only 2500 pound thrust for only 2.5 seconds? Sounds a
little low? Anyone know better? 
Now you will have to check my maths, last time I did
this was at school 25 years ago!

What does that Impala weigh? If the car was 1500
pounds as he states, it should have accelerated at a
bit less than 2G (then deduct wind and roling
resistance). My calculations give me all of about
160km/h (100MPH) terminal speed. If heavier, then
slower terminal speed. He talks of 300MPH and the way
the car leapt when the rocket ignited, perhaps more!

Who knows what Myth Busters found?

Help me out guys!

Andre

--- Brian Sikkema <bjsikkem at gimail.af.mil> wrote:

> Be prepared to spend some time reading this, but I'm
> telling you right now it's worth every second.
> 
> Anyone who's been exposed to the internet for more
> than an hour or so has most likely heard the rocket
> car story. Guy straps a JATO rocket to a car, flies
> it into a mountainside.
> 
> Clearly it's an urban legend, and I always figured
> someone just made it up.
> 
> Well, as it turns out... it has roots in reality (or
> at least what I think is reality - this IS the
> internet, so this guy may just be a very, very good
> bullshitter).
> 
> I give you:
> http://www.rocketcarstory.com/
> 
> The REAL Rocket Car....
> 
> Turns out it was a '59 Impala, not a '67.....
> 
> Brian
> 


		
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