Nov

17

2006

More JET goodness

by Skip

YES!!! A Jet Powered Fire Extinguisher!

(H/T:  Gizmodo)

Let’s take one perfectly good jet MIG-21 fighter, strip out the engines, and put them on a  tank, and go looking for a fire to play with!

 

A team of Hungarian engineers have created the ultimate fire extinguisher. They’ve removed the gun turrets from an old Russian tank, replaced them with 2 turbines from a MiG-21 fighter jet, and injected the whole thing with gallons of water. The result is the first ever jet-powered fire extinguisher. Though it’d be difficult to get the tank to confined spots, the turbines’ speed and power could potentially help firefighters with oil-fires, which typically take days to extinguish.

My question: when they let off the brakes, how fast CAN those tracks go? 

 

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by Skip Murphy

Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us). My fight, from a Conservative (with small "L" libertarian leanings) and evangelical Christian perspective, is with the Progressives that are forcing a collectivized and secular humanistic future upon us. As TEA Party activist, citizen journalist (and pundit!), my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture again.

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