[Shotimes] Re: Upgraded brakes - how about a couple 2x4s

[MonsieurBoo@aol.com]

Jason H:  "I still believe that the best braking system is a pair of  
forward-facing JATO rockets. you just don't stop much quicker than that."
 
I'd probly point them in the other direction.  How many of you saw the  
"Mythbusters" show on the infamous '67 Chevy Impala rocket car legend?
 
Here's the most interesting perspective on this story that I've  found:
 
_http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-363/index.html_ 
(http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-363/index.html) 
 
 
This kind of shenanigans is awfully tempting, being involved in  designing a 
rocket engine using Nitrous and paraffin (that's right, candle wax)  here on 
the east coast similar to what the Stanford gang has done on  the west coast, 
see
 
_http://www.stanford.edu/~cantwell/_ (http://www.stanford.edu/~cantwell/) 
 
scroll to the very bottom of the page and click on the "Black Rock paraffin  
hybrid rocket flight Oct 18, 2003" link to see their flight from last  fall.
 
Would be entirely too much fun to mount a couple of the 6" diameter big  boys 
in coffins in the back of an old Caddy hearse and really "light the  
candles"...
 
Cheers,
Mark LaBarre
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