Hoovey689

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Jet-powered school bus reaches 350 mph, eliminates tardy slips

Riding the bus to school was never exactly a pleasure cruise, but when we turned 15, it suddenly moved from a lower form of torture like water boarding and squarely into the realm of driving bamboo under our fingernails. Having tasted the freedom afforded by piloting the family Suburban into the high school parking lot with a pale, wide-eyed parent pleading to various deities from the passenger seat, being forced back into the worst possible interpretation of public transportation was an insult too great to stand.

Things might have been different if we'd been riding this beast to school.

Built by Paul Stender and his crew of mad scientists at IndyBoys, Inc, the School Time Jet Bus is a 35-foot long cheese wagon with a 42,000-horsepower GE J-79 jet engine borrowed from an F4 Phantom. While most of the vehicle is a complete custom creation, it can still seat up to three passengers. Did we mention it shoots 75-foot flames? According to the IndyBoys web site, the bus is built to topple the 350 mph barrier, but it's unclear as to whether or not anyone has been brave enough to get the bus close to that speed. Hit the jump for a video of the creation showing off at an airshow.


http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/09/j...s-tardy-slips/

djyoshi626

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Hahahaha that is awesome, but looking at the recent tragic accident in the mid-west, it seems that even buses that go the normal speed limit can't handle that, so 350 mph!?!?!

trukn1

Literally,,,brings new meaning to the term "doing a burnout."

-J-P-L-

350? I find that hard to believe. The video shows maybe 150 MPH. Is there another video? A bus going 100 MPH faster that a Veyron would take tens of thousands of horsepower and be virtually impossible to control even with substantial mods.

bagwell

uh....it has 42,000 HP...I'm sure it has the capability to hit 350mph...but nobody will do it.

-J-P-L-

Well there you go. I knew it would take 10's of thousands of HP. Didn't see where it listed that rating.

So if nobody will do it, it didn't happen. I can't even imagine that bus/truck size tires exist for such speeds.

ALeX300

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there are articles that the bus hit 367mph at that exhibition. And you really think they use regular truck/bus tires?

-J-P-L-

Of course not which is why I questioned the existence of such tires.
I guess they do make special tires for these applications as I also recall seeing rigs set up for extreme speeds.

IS-SV

I doubt the brakes are up to the task.