Jet Reaction (motorcycle)

Jet Reaction
Class Land speed record streamliner
Engine afterburning turbojet
Top speed Over 400 mph (640 km/h)
Power 1,250 hp[1]
Dimensions L: 6.5 m[1]
W: 0.5 m[1]

Jet Reaction is a motorcycle built by British motorcycle land-speed record challenger Richard Brown. The motorcycle is powered by a turboshaft helicopter engine converted to afterburning turbojet.[2]

Brown previously ran the Gillette Mach 3 Challenger hydrogen peroxide rocket motorcycle at Bonneville Salt Flats, setting a one-way speed record of 332.887 mph (535.730 km/h)[3] and top speed of 365 mph (587 km/h).[4] He expects to exceed 400 mph (640 km/h) with Jet Reaction in 2012–2013.[5] If successful, it will be the first jet-propelled motorcycle record breaker.[6]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Hopperton 2012.
  2. ↑ Drury 2012.
  3. ↑ Robinson 2012.
  4. ↑ Rocket biker aims for space record, BBC News, 22 May 2000, retrieved 2012-06-01
  5. ↑ Robinson 2012; Waugh 2012; Walker 2012.
  6. ↑ Hague 2011.

References

  • Drury, Jim (6 February 2012), Jet engine bike passes test-fire trial ahead of speed record bid (Video), Reuters, retrieved 2012-05-30
  • Hague, Robin (20 December 2011), "Record-busting motorbike will be jet engine on two wheels", New Scientist (2844), retrieved 2012-06-01
  • Hopperton, Laura (1 April 2012), 450mph jet powered bike aims to break speed record, Eureka magazine, retrieved 2012-05-30
  • Robinson, Rocky (26 January 2012), Salt Addiction: Richard Brown's Jet Reaction, Motorcycle USA, retrieved 2012-05-30
  • Walker, Steve (11 January 2012), 450mph British jet bike to chase world record (Video), MSN Cars, retrieved 2012-05-30
  • Waugh, Rob (2 January 2012), "Is it a plane? Is it a missile? No - it's a motorbike, and the 450mph British-built beast aims to be the first 'jet bike' in the record books", Daily Mail, retrieved 2012-05-30
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