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A rocket car is a land vehicle propelled by a rocket engine. A rocket dragster is a rocket car used for competing in drag racing , and this type holds the unofficial world record for the 1/4 mile. Opel RAK.1 - World's first public flight of a manned rocket-powered plane on September 30, 1929
The account of the JATO Rocket Car was one of the original Darwin Awards winners: a man who supposedly met his death in a spectacular manner after mounting a JATO unit (a rocket engine used to help heavy aircraft to take off) onto an ordinary automobile. It was originally circulated as a forwarded email. [1]
Opel RAK.1 - a rocket car that achieved 75 km/h (47 mph) in March 1928 and more than 100 km/h in April of the same year [11] Opel RAK.2 - rocket car tested May 23, 1928; reached a speed of 238 km/h (145 mph) driven by 24 solid-fuel rockets [11] Opel RAK.3 - rocket rail vehicle (quoted speed is variously 254 or 290 km/h.
The car will use one EJ200 to provide around half the thrust and power the car to 650 mph (1,050 km/h). [44] [15] A custom monopropellant rocket designed by Nammo will be used to add extra thrust for the world land speed record runs. For the 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h) runs, the monopropellant rocket will be replaced with a hybrid rocket from Nammo ...
[92] [93] In 1928, Fritz von Opel drove a rocket car Opel RAK.1 on the Opel raceway in Rüsselsheim, Germany, and later the dedicated RAK2 rocket car at the AVUS speedway in Berlin. In 1928, Opel, Valier and Sander equipped the Lippisch Ente glider, which Opel had purchased, with rocket power and launched the manned glider.
Blue Flame is a rocket-powered land speed racing vehicle that was driven by Gary Gabelich and achieved a world land speed record on Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on October 23, 1970. The vehicle set the FIA world record for the flying mile at 622.407 mph (1,001.667 km/h) and the flying kilometer at 630.388 mph (1,014.511 km/h). [1]
The Budweiser Rocket is an American 3-wheeled land vehicle, generally resembling the 1970-era Blue Flame land speed record holding vehicle in appearance, powered by a liquid rocket engine with an extra solid-fuel booster from a Sidewinder missile, [1] that has been claimed as being the first vehicle to have broken the sound barrier on land. The ...
Hydrogen peroxide rockets are used to power jet packs, [59] and have been used to power cars and a rocket car holds the all time (albeit unofficial) drag racing record. [60] Corpulent Stump is the most powerful non-commercial rocket ever launched on an Aerotech engine in the United Kingdom. [61] [62] [63]