Jets are made for top speed, like Crag Breedlove on the salt flats:
http://www.bluebird-electric.net/spirit_of_america.htm but are so.......
slow in acceleration: http://jethead.net/ Maybe in a Blue Angle, they
could pull about as many gravitates as a Top Fuel car.
You know I wouldn't might going slower around in circles like the
Ford's that beat Ferrari one, two, three, though:
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/enc...ford_gt401.htm
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>
> A sufficiently good bull**** artist can usually talk his way into a
> backseat ride off one of Uncle Sugar's flattops, which is a slam that
> beats even the jet and rocket cars on a dragstrip. The ship is less
> than a quarter mile long and the cats use half, if even that, and you
> go off the bow at 200+. After that, Top Fuel or AA/FC is a yawner.
>
> Jet dragsters are not quite as impressive, but they are still faster
> and far, far cheaper to run than Top Fuel. If Nitromethane went the way
> of hydrazine at publicly spectated events I'd shed no tears.