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Converting a jet into a 800 mph car

APR 21, 2009

DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023270

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The New York Times : When Ed Shadle was growing up, you could buy a junker for a couple hundred dollars, pound out the dents, drop a big engine in it, paint it candy apple red, take it to the outskirts of town and race from stoplight to stoplight until the cops told you to go home.
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