To: steve86
I had the throttle stick wide open on a top fuel Bonneville land speed record rocket car doing over 550 mph. When I finally got it into neutral it had broken the sound barrier over three times. The power steering went out around 683 MPH but I was able to steer it with Body English. Then the parachutes malfunctioned but I was out of salt flat anyway. Lived to tell about it.Yeah, but did you save the car?!? LOL.
213 posted on
03/10/2010 8:42:45 AM PST by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
To: IYAS9YAS
It was actually bad enough when my outboard throttle stuck headed toward the dock at 5 or 6 mph. Got it into neutral but didn’t risk crunching the gears by trying for reverse. Hard to port and ended up with just a slight scrape. Would be worse on a jetski where you completely lose the steering.
216 posted on
03/10/2010 8:53:30 AM PST by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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