Patriot Jet Dragster Tököl, 2006. October 22.

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In the last 5 years I've logged many fast, many interesting vehicles, but nothing compared to this one! Thanks Ulrike, Thanks Gerd! This jet dragster is powered by a huge Rolls Royce jet engine. It's smoke and flame show is very impressive, and so is its acceleration... You might remember Ulrike's interview in our video where she told us about the difference between her super-comp dragster and this jet-dragster. While the wheel driven car launches hard and acceleration eases as it goes faster, the jet car is quite the opposite. It starts quite softly, but there's a sudden increase in acceleration from 70 km/h on. This might be due to driver input or maybe it's how this engine works. Acceleration start to decrease from around 200 km/h, which is most certainly is caused by the air drag, as power output keeps rising all through the run.* If we look at the 1/4 mile view it's evident that the run didn't lasted the full 402 meters. That's because due to the strong wind the start causes, the starting point was around 50 meters in front of the normal starting line. Since Ulrike didn't pushed after reaching the Q/M finish line sign, we only have around 350 meters of acceleration. The official trap figure for the run was 308 km/h. Unfortunately we can't compare the logged speed to this 308 because obviously acceleration didn't exactly stopped at the finish line. Above 300 everything happens fast. :) * I'll write more about this run in details on the miscellaneous page, with charts with the correct scale to everything clearly.

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