Jet-Powered Motorcycle

This bike is made ​​with the intent to break the record for the fastest bike, researchers from the University of Huddersfield UK, creating a jet-powered motorbike that can shot with a speed of 425 mph (or approx 693.97 kph).

In this powerful motorcycle engine mounted Jet Reaction, where the engines technology is commonly used in aircraft and helicopters. Richard Brown also tested the vehicle and record as the fastest man driving a two-wheeled vehicle.

Two-wheeled vehicle is designed to the shape of the head end vehicles like aircraft that has the aerodynamic package that makes its speed increasingly able to glide smoothly and very quickly.

Jet-Reaction bike for new 
land speed record. (Picture from:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/)

Richard Brown also collaborated with Professor Rakesh Mishra from the University of Huddersfield to create these super vehicles.

"At the speed of 425 mph, the air being pressed. Modeling compressible flow using computational fluid dynamics is quite challenging," said Taimoor Asim, technology specialist computational fluid dynamics (CFD) which also helped Richard to develop this jet bike.

He said, using the Jet Reaction, means a risk to the stability of the vehicle while speeding so he uses computer simulations and find solutions to overcome the instability.

Final design of Jet Reaction rendered on 3D CAD drawings. (Picture from: http://www.jetreaction.net/)

All dressed up and ready to go. Richard plans on going after the British motorcycle speed record in 2012, and return to Bonneville in 2013. (Picture from: http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/)

Furthermore, he explained, he did testing on the effects of air pressure on the aerodynamic behavior of motorcycles. When the research is completed, then it sends the results to Richard. "The main purpose of this report is to analyze the influence of aerodynamics on Jet Reaction time it reaches the target speed is 425 miles per hour. This is an excellent report and the design has been verified and enabling Jet Reaction technologies proceed to the next stage, namely the production of motorcycles with jet power," he said.

Based on a 1,250 horsepower helicopter engine, the massive turbine is placed inside a frame not unlike a traditional streamliner frame. (Picture from: http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/)

Currently, the motorcycle and speed record stands at 376 mph (606 kph), set in 2010 by Rocky Robinson. Richard Brown will begin his trials with Jet Reaction in this year, before making an attempt on the world record in 2013 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, US.

Richard Brown with the 365mph Gillette Mach 3 Challenger bike. (Picture from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/)

His first record attempt in 1999, using a Gillette Mach 3 Challenger bike, failed because soft ground meant the team had to use conventional tyres rather than the preferred aluminium wheels. (See another Jet-powered bike). *** [SCIENCEDAILY | MOTORCYCLEUSA | JET REACTION | SRI | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 08112012]

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