Jet Reaction (motorcycle)

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]

Jet Reaction
ClassLand speed record streamliner
EngineAfterburning turbojet
Top speedOver 400 mph (640 km/h)
Power1,250 hp[1]
DimensionsL: 6.5 m[1]
W: 0.5 m[1]

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

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  1. ^ a b c Hopperton 2012.
  2. ^ Drury 2012.
  3. ^ Robinson 2012.
  4. ^ "Rocket biker aims for space record". BBC News. 22 May 2000. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
  5. ^ Robinson 2012; Walker 2012.
  6. ^ Hague 2011.

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