> > The car has a 10 ft. piece of 4 in. PVC mounted to the undercarriage
> > which slides back onto a piece of slightly smaller cast iron mounted
> > to a 100-odd gallon compressed air tank.  The car only reaches
> > speeds of 45 mph, but you get there in a fraction of a second in a
> > distance of just 10 feet.
> 
> Wow !!
> 
> Sounds like the steam catapults they use to launch fighters from aircraft
> carriers. Always did wonder what that felt like..

Top Gear (yes, them again !!) used a movie-grade (either 10 or 20
tonnes) compressed air launcher to play car darts with stuffed cars
fired over a quarry cliff at a target. Just to make it interesting, in the
bull was the much-hated caravan. It got hit. Caravan Number 14
dies the death

You don't have to like cars to watch Top Gear - it's often nothing
like a car show

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