1/12 scale Jet Dragster that works

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Scratch built Jet Dragster with styrene tube chassis and scratch built General Electric J85 with afterburner. This car runs on a tether down our street driven by the thrust of a class c hobby rocket engine at a very realistic scale speed. It covers the scale quarter mile in about 5 seconds then the engine backfires as designed through a u shaped pipe and fires the drag chute out of the chute cylinders mounted on top of the engine cowling and stops the car. Lots of smoke, fire and noise. Always leaves the crowd cheering. I will post a video at a later date. side by side races are very cool between this and various rails I've built over the years. I'm working on a 1/12 scale Firebird Jet Funny Car and can't wait to video the future match races

Sorry the cars missing the nose cone in these pics

Edited November 20, 2015 by Hammerdown
forgot pictures

[Hammerdown]

sorry trying to get pic up