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Jetex was developed in 1947, by Wilmot, Mansour & Company Ltd of Southampton, which had started operations in a decommissioned hangar at RAF Beaulieu. [1] The first motor was demonstrated in early 1948 and was available to the public in June 1948, when Aeromodeller magazine featured Jetex power on its front cover. [2]
Blazing Angel jet dragster A jet dragster in action Two jet dragsters Larsen Motorsport's Florida Tech Jet Dragster. A jet car is a car propelled by a jet engine. A jet dragster is a jet powered car used for drag racing. They are most commonly seen at race shows.
Jet cars were first sanctioned by the NHRA in 1974, and in 1980 official approval was granted for jet-powered Funny Cars. [35] In 1975, drag racer Phillip "Al" Eierdam created Emergency 1, a jet car powered by a Westinghouse J34 engine and stylized to mimic a fire engine. In the 1980s, Eierdam built and raced the rocket-engined Invader, often ...
The arrow-shaped car, under development since 2008, is powered by a jet engine and will be fitted with an additional rocket engine. [2] The initial goal is to exceed the current speed record of 763 mph (1,228 km/h), with the vehicle believed to be able to achieve up to 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 km/h).
The first four cars, FireForce 1, FireForce 2, FireForce 3, and FireForce 4, are jet-powered funny cars. The fifth car, known as FireForce 5 , is a jet-propelled dragster. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] They are all powered by Pratt & Whitney J60 turbojet engines, producing 5,500 lbf (24 kN) of thrust, or around 10,000 hp (7,500 kW).
Spirit of America was the first of the modern record breaking jet-propelled cars, [citation needed] built with a narrow streamlined fuselage, three-wheel chassis, and, most significantly, turbojet engine. Like most of the other competing vehicles, the engine was ex-military.
Three jet engines made it the fastest thing on wheels at most drag racing events, while at air shows it was often the only jet that never left the ground when it barreled down the runway at 300 ...
Arfons sold the car to Bob Motz. In 1962, Arfons began experimenting with jet-powered cars, where his innate mechanical skills proved tremendously useful. Art's first car, the 8,000 hp (6 MW) Cyclops, remains the fastest open cockpit vehicle, recording 330.113 miles per hour (531.265 km/h) in the measured mile in 1962. Unfortunately, his design ...