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Rocket bus

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Indy Boys Inc, an Indianapolis-based group of gear-heads, has fitted a jet engine from a warplane to an iconic yellow school bus. It may not be the fastest ground vehicle out there, but at 367mph and with its 80-foot-long plume of flame, it's quite the sight.

The bus guzzles a whopping 150 gallons of fuel in a quarter of a mile thanks to its 42,000 horsepower jet engine, which was taken from a Phantom fighter jet.

“I built the bus for two reasons. The first is to entertain people because, come on, it's a jet bus,” Stender said, concluding, “The second, is to keep kids off drugs. Jets are hot, drugs are not.”

That's true, jets are hot…literally. But saying drugs are not might be a little hypocritical seeing as how drugs were likely the inspiration for this vehicle.
sent by Heather
4/9/2012
source: http://nerdapproved.com/misc-weirdness/rocket-bus-gets-you-to-school-at-367-mph/
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