Hey there
I am wondering if anyone had seen this before.
It comes top of a list of bad drag racing ideas.
"A lot of racers have tried to harness the uncontrollable power of a rocket engine, some better than others. You see, the problem with a rocket in a drag racing situation is that the length of time that thrust is being created is directly proportional to the amount of solid fuel in the tank. The driver is not controlling the throttle; that’s the job of physics. We’re not talking about a turbine here, like that used in a jet airliner – those have on/off switches. A rocket? Not at all. You light the fuse and hang on for however long it decides to burn. And that’s why a lot of guys have been killed driving rocket cars. The Vulcan Shuttle came out in around 1980 or so, a rocket motor housed in a Volkswagen. Yeah, it sounds stupid to us writing this 30 years later. With a surplus engine that was about 10-feet long, this little Bug acted like an out-of-control bottle rocket, and eventually killed its driver, Rodney Poole, during a test pass at an airport."
You can read the rest of the article here which is quite interesting.
The Top 10 Drag Racing Creations that didn't work
vassy66T1 Wow ... are U reading this?
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