Better to burn out than fade away (this guy's on his trolley!)

Check this out (it's work-safe!): Off his trolley

 

:mana:

 

Anybody who flies in micro-lites or hangliders needs their brains testing. If i was him i think i'd wear a nomex racing suit, a full face racing helmet and fit a large stainless/titanium heatsheild between me and all that go-go juice.

 

That bloke's a nuttah !

 

I learned a new word from this site: doodlebug. Never came across it yet and had to look it up. Interesting mix of meanings.

 

Markus, I remember my Grandmother talking about the doodlebugs during the war. Surprised you hadnt heard it before, also surprised the damn things managed to get to Britain at all.

 

Aha, the great British eccentric, and, one suspects, a future Darwin Award winner.

 

http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/lhkart.shtml

There's loads of other pulse jet stuff including some V1 video on that site.

Paul

 

Excellent,
Now then, if we junk the pulse-jet, and try a solid fuel rocket booster say a modest 15000lbs of thurst, it could get entertaining

 

tone you want a J.A.T.O. shopping trolley - maybe sid 'n' coke could help there.....
cheers

julian

 

A Darwin Award winner did that with a car IIRC - ended up permanently embedded in a rock cliff face Nice...

 

You must be thursty! Mind you, I'd need to drink that much to have the nerve to get into that thing at all.

 

That story was disproved, just an urban myth im afraid.