Jet Reaction (motorcycle)
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 2 3 Hopperton 2012.
- ↑ Drury 2012.
- ↑ Robinson 2012.
- ↑ Rocket biker aims for space record, BBC News, 22 May 2000, retrieved 2012-06-01
- ↑ Robinson 2012; Waugh 2012; Walker 2012.
- ↑ 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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