Sunday, December 11, 2005

Portapotty + Jet Engine = Awesomeness

I'm an avid reader of Car and Driver, and each year as part of their 10Best list, they do a 10Best Winner and Losers feature. This particular winner caught my eye:

Paul Stender really had to go. So he attached a 50-year-old Boeing jet engine to an outhouse--with the original toilet seat doubling as the driver's seat--and used the wall-mounted urinal to funnel 12 gallons of JP-4 fuel into a holding tank. Result: a top speed of around 46 mph.

"It's not real aerodynamic," Stender confessed to Popular Science, which in turn explained to the readers how they could duplicate the flying loo for $10,000. Stender said he no longer equips his biffy with toilet paper because it tends to get sucked into the turbine.

The Speeding Outhouse - Popular Science

2 Comments:

At 12/12/2005 10:07 AM, Blogger Elisa said...

My husband wants that for Christmas.

 
At 12/12/2005 2:38 PM, Blogger Ellen said...

Just get yourself a Costco-sized can of refried beans and a lighter, and you're all set.

 

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