Sep

03

2007

Why not more Jetiness? – It’s a holiday!

by Skip

Hey, if Doug can do Grok N’Roll, I can do more jet stuff, right?  RIGHT? It’s a holiday – the last of the summer.  Time to be light today.

But this guy is NUTS!  A 112 MPH on a board 2 inches from asphalt with 80 lbs of thrust???

Jet powered street luge board

 Jet powered street luge

From Gizmodo:

Joel King just broke the world speed record on a jet-powered street luge, racing at 112mph (180km/h) —lying horizontally just a couple of inches above the asphalt of an old US air base at Ipswich. He strapped a small 90,000-rpm jet engine to the two-meter board, which gave him up to 80lbs of thrust. We talked with Joel and he revealed all the secrets of his heart-stopping feat.

Go and see the whole thing - including the video! 

 

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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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