Just about every iteration of the Batmobile has had a jet engine with an afterburner attached, giving it a boost when necessary, but you seldom see anyone in real life build a car with a rocket ...

This vicious circle is known as the “tyranny of the rocket equation,” and is why it takes a two-stage rocket the size of an office building to launch a satellite the size of a car. Staging a ...

Jet and rocket engines are showing up and actually being ... It was basically a modified Budd commuter car with US Air Force surplus General Electric J47-19 jet engines. They were placed in ...

A jet and rocket-powered car designed to go faster than sound is ... Bloodhound car is driven by a Rolls-Royce EJ200 turbofan jet engine — the same as used for the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft.

proving to the world that almost anything can be turned into a rocket. He is obsessed with pulsejet engines and he uses them to power anything from skateboards to tricycles, go-karts, bikes, cars ...

About two weeks ago, Robert Maddox, a.k.a. the Crazy Rocketman by his internet moniker, introduced us to his latest contraption: a twin jet engine trike ... bikes and cars to flame-spitting ...

a car designed to hit 1000 miles per ... Right now it's using just the thrust of a euro fighter jet engine. Eventually they'll add a rocket motor, you know, for that extra kick.

Artist's concept of the Bloodhound When the Bloodhound Supersonic Car ... jet engine from a Typhoon fighter, and a V8 CA2010 Formula 1 engine to power a high-capacity fuel pump for the rocket.

He builds pulse-jet engines. There’s a difference ... lake bed and slaloms past Sterchi’s lens. The three engines do look ...

In the spirit of speed, [James Whomsley] strapped a jet turbine engine to an RC car, and learned some hard ... having previously experimented with a rocket plane.

The heat exchanger is key in managing the high temperature airflows of the SABRE engine that is described as a hybrid between a rocket and jet engine. The company’s precooler was found to be ...