DMF member wins Rocket Car Day 11

[bigiain]

http://bit.ly/rocketcarday11

http://www.rocketcarday.com

It was a _blast!_

(check out the video if you've got 4 minutes and 6.5M worth of download spare...)

Big - 2009 World Rocket Car Champion 

[Grampa]

 

[bigiain]

I just fpund out Flickr have cropped the video at 90 seconds...

Here's the full 4 minutes on Youtube:

Rocket Car Day 11

big - World Rocketcar Champion 2009!

[Super T.I.B]

 





This looks like it is set in the back streets of Newtown?

[bigiain]

This looks like it is set in the back streets of Newtown?

Close, Newtown's a bit too yuppied up to have deserted industrial backstreets these days - this was about 3 blocks out of the southern end of Newtown in Marrickville.

big

[Slide Panda]

Fun! 

I like these rules:
Remote Control : is not allowed due to it working one year.

Gyroscopic control : is allowed due to it never having worked yet.

Hmm, I might have to see about a version over here...