Turbonique chemical rocket

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Available to the general public back in the 60's......ever heard of them?

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http://bangshift.com/blog/turbonique-video-a-five-minute-turbonique-promotional-video-from-the-1960s.html

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yeah, I remember them.
I remember the VW and the cart in the last segment too.
some crazy shiat going on back then!
 
Can you IMAGINE the liability in today's world? "That outfit" experimented with quite a few half baked ideas, some of them had merit, and some did not.

http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/engine/hrdp_0403_turbonique/

http://www.the-rocketman.com/turbonique.html


Having been described as "the real Acme" (re: Roadrunner cartoons) check out the Ford Galaxie down this page:

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/bolus/turbonique/

Not too sure what you're supposed ta' do when the thing melts your chute strap:

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NOW THAT'S A HYBRID, lol! Seriously, thanks for posting. Always read about these monsters,the video was awesome!!!!
 
Peroxide and alcohol or kerosene? Cant remember. Pretty sure the exhaust is steam. Brave souls drivng those 500 hp gocarts.

Thanks for the info!

Well, im wrong about fuel and oxidizer. Thermolene and lox. Supposedly the LOX is just for startup. I guess the turbine ingests air after getting rolling and the thermolene is a hi caloric fuel of some sort.
Oh, it simply self sustains after getting going as the thermolene is self oxidizing?

Really interesting. Thanks again. Here is another link of use with a bunch of links at bottom>

http://www.tunersgroup.com/tunerwire_live/turbonique.html
 
I want to go back to these days.......

From 67Dart273's link:

http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/engine/hrdp_0403_turbonique/

The problem is that a typical air-breathing gas turbine uses over half of its total turbine power to drive the compressor. Turbonique engineers sidestepped the problem and simply replaced the weighty, expensive, and inefficient compressor with a high-pressure storage bottle containing Normal Propyl Nitrate (Thermolene), a stable, milk-white liquid fuel that brings its own oxygen to the party and that moves the engine into the category of a rocket because it can run without the benefit of atmospheric oxygen. When the Thermolene is introduced to the combustion chamber at 600 psi and ignited by a glorified spark plug connected to an on/off switch, the immediate result is an intense release of hot gases to spin the turbine blades. Anti-swirl turbine wheel vanes prevented flames from exiting the tailpipe, but a special wheel was optional for "spectacular flaming night runs."
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!


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Apparently in the mid 60s Jack McClure was connected with Turbonique but moved on to bigger and crazier things in the late 60s/early 70s.

In the early 70s I saw Captain Jack McClure run a rocket powered go-kart at Union Grove Wisc. that went 200+ mph.

If you google Captain Jack McClure you can read all about it.
 
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