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Rocket Powered Car Races!

Posted April 15, 2010 10:56 AM

From MAKE Magazine:

Over in Sydney, Australia, the fine folks at Robots and Dinosaurs entered the annual Rocket Car Day. The event looks hilarious- participants build small vehicles to enter into the competition, which are then fitted with model rocket engines and pitted against each other in a race! It's sort of a space-age answer to Pinewood derby. Awesome!

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Re: Rocket Powered Car Races!

04/15/2010 11:07 AM

Health & what???

Oz must be the only country in the world where you could get away with that!

Brilliant!

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Re: Rocket Powered Car Races!

04/15/2010 3:26 PM

From their official event website

If you're racing, try to bring your own C6 rockets with fuses (you can
get these at most hobby stores like HobbyCo).
I might have a couple for sale on the day, but not many.

An ignition system is provided on the day.

And just a reminder: try to test your cars so you know they're not
dangerous and are awesome.

If you can't we'll just guess on the day. Too light, won't race.

Bring beer and umbrellas and snacks.

I have fresh t-shirts and have even whipped up some clothes for rocket babies: so bring lots of money to buy them off the lovely t-shirt girls.

There will also be A BBQ apparently. Yeee ha!

Priceless.

From the posted video of a camera-equipped vehicle it looks safe carefully thought out fun to me

http://vimeo.com/10942976

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04/15/2010 9:40 PM

Thanks jack of all trades,

This video is way better than the lengthy article video (most likely due to the skill of the "cameraman")

Mike

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04/16/2010 9:57 AM

I believe you have stumbled across the annual event of the Wile E. Coyote fan club.

He would run and skip in a similar manner when standing "downstream" of small rocket projectiles (see video).

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