Date: Wed, 18 Oct 95 17:30:48 -0700
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: CECIL_TURNER@HP-Roseville-om1.om.hp.com
Subject: Re: /f acceleration
Reminds me of an article I read in the paper a few months back. Seems
the highway patrol happened up on a smoldering glob of molten metal in
the New Mexico desert, but noticed the reminants of automobile wheels.
Curious, the patrolman be gan to investigate the scene, or what he
could reach of it, since this pile of metal was embedded in the rock
wall of a curve in the road. And as he was inspecting what he thought
to be a wreck of some space ship, commandered by an alien life form,
he discovered the emblem of a '65 Mercury. Further, as he looked
under this narley mess of twisted metal and rocket motors, he noticed
the brake drums had been ground completely down thru the metal in a
futile attempt to stop what ever this was.
Well, the patrolman and a few of his buddies concluded that this WAS
in fact a 1965 Mercury Meteor which had been outfitted with surplus
STOA (Short Take Off Assist) solid fuel rockets from a C140. Problem
was that once the rockets were ignited, they couldn't be turner off,
they had to burn out completely. They estimated the poor fool tried
to stop after about two and a half miles, or once he passed thru the
300 mile per hour, and ground his brakes compeletly off in the
process. He hit the wall in the curve at between 280 and 340 the
patrolman estimated.
Go figure what was on this idiots mind.
Cecil
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Subject: Re: /f acceleration
Author: Non-HP-vanagon (vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu) at HP-Roseville,unixgw2
Date: 10/18/95 12:38 PM
RE>/f acceleration 10/18/95
The place I'm temping has a business unit that manufactures the turbine
engines for the Navy's Harpoon missile, and it looks like an IDEAL size
to strap/weld onto the sides of a Transporter for vastly improved freeway
acceleration.
The only drawback might be the $80,000 apiece price tag...
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Yeah, but think about the original intended application - it's probably
guarnteed to work ONCE!
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