jet car
{{Short description|Car propelled by a jet engine}}
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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.
Land speed record
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Jet powered cars are commonly used for land speed record attempts, after an FIA rule change that permitted them in 1964.{{Cite news|title=Land Speed Record Agreement |author=our motoring correspondent |work=The Times |date=December 12, 1964 |page=7, col E |issue=56193}}
Drag racers
Some cars such as Green Monster and Vampire raced as dragsters (as well as also achieving or attempting land speed records).
In 2006, while filming an episode for the series Top Gear, presenter and driver Richard Hammond was critically injured in a crash with the jet dragster, Vampire, that he was piloting.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6076018.stm|title=Top Gear presenter 'nearly died' |date=2006-10-23|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2008-11-23}}
More modern jet dragsters such as Robert Albertson's "Blazing Angel" are capable of reaching over {{convert|300|mph|km/h}} in a quarter of a mile.{{Cite web|url=http://blazingangeljet.com/the-car.html|title=Blazing Angel specifications|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-18}}
Most of these modern cars are powered by the Pratt & Whitney J60 or the General Electric J85 jet engine.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Jet-powered automobiles}}
- [http://jetcararchive.blogspot.com/ Jet car archive]
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