When we were growing up, we had the coolestCox used to make a guide-line dragster, there was a bead near the end of the line that shut off the engine and deployed a parachute. It was pretty cool when it worked.
This is great!
With your guideline setup, does the car just crash into the screwdriver on the far side? Or you just run the line longer than the car will go?
My son and built a guide line rocket car. We run it on a baseball diamond as that gives a very flat run.
When I saw the photo of your car, I thought maybe it was a Tether Car. Something I've always wanted to do but rocket powered.
Not tethered via a string but tethered via a rigid pivot arm.
I saw a tether car demonstration as a kid when competing in the control line combat state championships here. They used the circular pad that the speed planes were using.
Anyhoo... totally insane. Been looking for one at the right price ever since. Seems like my right price is 'super low-ball'.
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The tether is 30 feet in length. The bridle is V shaped.
Extra care would be needed to ensure that the baseball diamond had some sort of fence/barrier to catch an errant car. I suspect that a rocket car would be safer than one of the fan Cox cars due to reduced run time. Spectators could watch from behind the catcher fence.
A long while back I thought about doing this. I might still, but back then my thoughts wandered to doing this, but with boats. Like a hydroplane.My son and built a guide line rocket car. We run it on a baseball diamond as that gives a very flat run.
I saw a tether car demonstration as a kid when competing in the control line combat state championships here. They used the circular pad that the speed planes were using.
Anyhoo... totally insane. Been looking for one at the right price ever since. Seems like my right price is 'super low-ball'.
This picture brings back good memories. I remember back in Jr. High School (7th, 8th & 9th grade) our Science and Woodworking classes making and launching these on wire guided drag lanes. We’d have competitions with different weights of the rocket cars on Estes A, B, C and D motors.I picked this one up on Ebay many years ago. Someone carved it out of wood.
I remember a hovercraft, not sure if it would work on water without some modification, powered by a cox .049 engine. … could tether one of these, add rocket power … roads? Where we’re going who needs roads?A long while back I thought about doing this. I might still, but back then my thoughts wandered to doing this, but with boats. Like a hydroplane.
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However Every scenario if ran through my mind ended in disaster so I didn’t. Still seems fun though.
Was it full of eels?I remember a hovercraft, not sure if it would work on water without some modification, powered by a cox .049 engine. … could tether one of these, add rocket power … roads? Where we’re going who needs roads?
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/testors-galax-iv-hovercraft-1970s-049-441538775
Go for it!A long while back I thought about doing this. I might still, but back then my thoughts wandered to doing this, but with boats. Like a hydroplane.
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However Every scenario if ran through my mind ended in disaster so I didn’t. Still seems fun though.
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