by The Ruptured Duck » Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:05 pm
It was the show Mythbusters that inspired me and a friend to start the Holyshit projects. The first one was a RC dune buggy that I fixed model rocket engines to and ignited. It went like a gun 2X.
HS2 was a pinewood derby car with a slightly smaller rocket. This was greatly unsuccessful, as it had a tendancy to spin around like a top
HS3 was a Jeep Wrangler RC fitted with: 1 medium rocket fitted vertically on the nose, 2 medium rockets on top, and 2 high powered rockets on the bottom.
We did not have the juice to ignite more than 2 at a time, so we lit the nose rocket first (did a 1080), then the 2 on top (spun horizontally because one rocket was pointed the wrong direction), then the 2 on bottom. The last was quite spectacular as it traveled approx. 6 inches forward on the ground before it took flight. The flight took the car in a spiraly path 20 ft in the air, before it came down, on fire and spinning.
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