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gpmcdermott writes "What does a man with too much time, a jet engine, and his mother-in-law's wheelchair, do?
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I'd say he's trying to get rid of his Mother-in-Law.
Right is wrong when left is right.
I'm not claiming to be psychic but my gut feeling is that Giuseppe Cannella's last words will be "Hey, watch this!"
Trolling is a art,
For his next projects, Giuseppe will be working on Jet-Powered Segways, aptly to be named JetWays.
Did anyone else notice this guy NOT WEARING a helmet?
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Does Stephen Hawking know about this yet?
This is probably a step down frmo his exeskeleton suit though...
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Great, now I can run that bigshot down the hall from me at the seniors home with the Racsal right out of the hallway.
I'm fact, I'll be the first one to the bingo table!
If you had a mother-in-law and a jet engine, what else would you do?
If the ADA crowd starts getting these en masse, then we should get some of those primo parking spaces back. It's only fair.
If you never make mistakes, it's probably because you're not doing anything.
This is old news. Doesn't anyone watch the AOL commercials? They've already attached the AOL optimizer to a wheelchair, a motorcycle, and a hot rod! The hot rod must have hit 88.8 miles per hour (and 1.21 JIGGAWATTS of electricity!) because it went back in time! ;-)
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Oh, wait...I just pictured the elderly rushing road blocks. Too late...
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Check out THIS baby. 85mph with 300LBS of thrust?!?!?
Maybe I'm just behind on my new geek toys, but who the heck just has jet engines laying around their house?
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Cannella is actually preparing for the X-Prize, this is just a land-based test launch.
Team Cannella's orbiter vehicle will have radiation shields made of old kettles.
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What does a man with too much time, a jet engine, and his mother-in-law's wheelchair, do?
He probably wathces a lot of porn.
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A little while ago I was reading some snopes at work (bored) and somehow I managed to surf over to this story. Very long, but incedibly interesting.
...no two people are not on fire.
So, what is the land speed wheelchair record?
I mean, depending on where the engine is mounted relative to the center of mass of the chair/dude combo, it might not be all that dangerous. After all, if the direction of the jet is exactly lined up with the centor of mass, and the rider never moves even at all, why, it could even hit a small bump without becoming airbor...
On second thought, this is as stupid as it appears.
Does he just throw his mother-in-law overboard with some sort of tether?
Was that socially inappropriate?
He wouldn't have felt it then...
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I'd say this guy should me Lawnchair Larry, who attached helium weather balloons to his Sears aluminum lawnchair and tried to control his height with a pellet gun. He got cold and dropped the gun. oops
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http://marineturbine.com/motorsports.
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Reading stuff like this brings tears to my eyes. On july 15 I was cut off while riding my 2000 r6. I was wearing a helmet (damn now its all scratched up), but that was all. I didnt get much road rash, so leathers wouldn't have helped much. I spent 2.5 weeks in the hospital (80k in med bills, anyone know of anyway to get help on uninsured med bills?), my pelvis is both shattered and broken, as is my wrist. I have 10 pins, and 2 external fixators. I will be out of work for atleast another 2 or 3 months. Lots of pain and stuff, lots of general badness, and lots of money troubles.
Then i see people riding with out helmets, on tv, on the internet. Soon Virginia will get rid of its helmet law. I am really saddened when i see this kind of thing
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Jet. Powered. Beer. Cooler.
Best quote: " I knew from some long forgotten physics lecture that when a liquid expands into a gas it will draw heat from its surroundings. And I happened to have a source of a suitable liquid right in my shed in the form of a LPG cylinder (liquid petroleum gas). What I needed was a way to use up a lot of fuel very, very quickly. What I needed was a jet engine! "
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an article:
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And there's a pic of a conventional bike with a jet attached here:
http://bikerodnkustom2.homestead.com/rQr2.html
Early racecar drivers didn't wear seatbelts either as the fuel tanks were so prone to catching fire that it was better to be thrown out of your vehicle than to be strapped into it. With the development of the fuel cell, it is now much safer to be in a harness, of course but back then, 7/10 motorsport deaths were due to fire.
$#!^ happens, but why does it always have to happen to me???
How did a helmet help you there? If you hadn't been wearing a helmet you would have avoided the hospital bill and the recovery time.
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I myself am in a wheelchair and have been considering some "added mobility" features.
I don't want plain old electric motors. I want to have to wheel myself around with muscle mass. I'm in a wheelchair. I need all the excercise I can get.
But for longer distance or varying conditions, having other means is nice.
Where are the details? plans? How do I outfit myself with a jet engine? What kind of jet engine is it? turbine? pulse jet?
For the curious, my current plan is to hand build a wankel. Actually the whole engine will be hand built. Central keyed axle going through a series of flat modules; one power pack (battery+starter/generator), one wankel, one ducted fan assembly. The ducted fan will have two exhausts with louvres on the back to change the ratio of thrust to lift.
The modules will be enclosed in aluminum. The mounting bolts will be electrically isolated from the chassis, and serve as power distribution. Fuel will come from a propane tank; I'll have an emergency camp stove propane tank to guarantee I can always get back to my car to swap out.
That should give me a nice self contained bolt on ground effect system. I only plan on using it when on rough terrain (wheelchairs don't like gravel)... so I can buy a second chair and modify it for that purpose. When the GE engine is off, the chair will just sit on its legs (traditional style chair legs with big rubber feet for stability and traction)
Hmmm does this mean it'll still be a wheelchair?
But yeah I'd consider doing all/some of this with a jet engine; if I could find some details...
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Decent leathers contain shock absorbing armour - the modern stuff is very effective and would almost certainly have helped reduce your injuries.
I wrote off a CBR400 T-boning a car that pulled a U-turn right in front of me. I was probably doing about 25mph at impact (because I was able to break some before hitting), and flew over the back of the car. I was wearing full Dainese racing leathers, helmet gloves & boots.
The gloves took a lot of damage, I slid into the gutter & hit my shin very hard on the curb and the bike ended up on my foot. my only injuries were a bit of bruising on my foot - the shin armor in the leathers spread the curb impact over my whole shin, so I didn't get hurt at all by that - but it would have broken my leg without the armor. The arm, shoulder area and & hip also took a bit of abrasion, and I was also a bit bruised on my hip, but again the padding there helped absorb a lot of the impact, so I reckon the $1000 investment in the leathers was definitely worth the money.
Here's some info on abrasion resistance of different materials:
Reprint from a
Sept 88 "Cycle" magazine article "Abrasion Testing: Torn in the USA".
Drag Test
"For the Drag Test, samples were stitched to a bag that held a 75-pound
sandbag inside a milk crate, then dragged behind a pickup truck..."
New, 100% Cotton Denim Jeans 3' 10"
Senior Balistic Nylon 3' 10"
Leather, Lightweight, Nude Finish, 2.25 oz/sq. ft. 4' 3"
Leather, Fashion Weight, 1.75 oz/sq ft. 4' 4"
Two-year-old 100% Cotton Denim Jeans 4' 5"
Cordura Nylon Type 440 18' 3"
Kevlar 29 Aramid Fiber, Style 713 22' 1"
Leather, Competition Weight, 3 oz/sq. ft. 86' 0"
Taber Test
"For the Taber Test, the specimen was mounted on a rotating platform and
scuffed by two rubber-emery grinding wheels." The numbers represent the
number of revolutions until the fabric totally fails. A vacuum clears
debris.
Two-year-old 100% Cotton Denim Jeans: 168
New 100% Cotton Denim Jeans: 225
Kevlar 29 Aramid Fiber, Style 713: 506
Cordura Nylon, Type 440: 559
Leather, Lightweight, Nude Finish, 2.25 oz./sq. ft.: 564
Leather, Fashion Weight, 1.75 oz./sq. ft. 750
Senior Ballistic Nylon: 817
Leather, Competition Weight, 3 oz./sq. ft.: 2600
More to consider...
"Finally, protection from road abrasion cannot be guaranteed by a
materials abrasion resistance alone. A jacket may have panels of
highly abrasion-resistant materials, yet if low-quality stitching joins
those panels and the seams come apart upon impact or during a slide, then
the abrasion resistance of the panels could count for nothing.
Furthermore, an ill-fitting garment may ride up in a slide, contorting
the body and exposing the skin. And the best jacket in the world, left
unzipped and/or unsnapped, won't give riders the protection they pay
for. When it comes to safety, the issues are more complex than just the
abrasion resistance of materials."