1000 mph car's rocket test.

[Herr-Berbunch]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19810160

Today will be the first full throttle run of the engine due to drive Andy Green further into the record books. When you use a Cosworth F1 engine as a fuel pump you know it's a serious business! :o

The first run of the engine was last year in the Mojave Desert - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12653148

Go Britain - we'll soon have a thriving aeronaughtical industry again. :03:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Update, now it's been run - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19818009

[Stealhead]

I am sure that this is an urban legend but I heard that some guy in Indiana managed to purchase some surplus JATO tanks designed for C-130s supposedly they where still live and he mounted them to his 1977 Firebird in an attempt to make a rocket car.So he got out on the road and let them rip but lost control killing himself in the process.

No doubt they made a Mythbusters episode about it but I heard this long before that show was around.

[Oberon]

No doubt they made a Mythbusters episode about it but I heard this long before that show was around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO_Rocket_Car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuES9eHjGkg

[Herr-Berbunch]

Alas that's not true. http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/jato.asp

But we all wish it was. :D

[Karle94]

Dump that F1 engine and mount this F1 engine:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/F-1_Engine_Test_Firing.jpg

[Herr-Berbunch]

Dump that F1 engine and mount this F1 engine:

Er, that's quite a chassis for a car! :o

[Jimbuna]

I doubt we'd be able to afford to run it here in the UK :o