{"id":11608,"date":"2009-05-07T07:51:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11608"},"modified":"2009-05-07T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T15:00:43","slug":"automobile-drag-racing-214-mph-in-25-sec-water-powered-record-stands-the-test-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11608","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing &#8211; Water Powered Speed Record of 214 mph in 2.5 sec."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1974 Evel Knievel launched himself across the Snake River Canyon in Idaho aboard the rocket powered Sky-Cycle in what was to be the biggest stunt and biggest flop of his daredevil career. The Skycycle X-1 and X-2 were more rocket than they were motorcycle and both were powered by overheated water rockets. This incredibly powerful means of propulsion also saw the team at Swissrocketman achieve a blistering 214.7 mph in 2.5 seconds back in 1992 &#8211; a water-rocket record that has remained unbeaten ever since.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Heated water is extremely powerful and plays a larger part in our lives than you might expect. In fact, up to 80 percent of the world&#8217;s electricity is &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/214-mph-in-25-sec-water-powered-record-stands-the-test-of-time\/11622\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CDDI5h8JQE0&amp;feature\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CDDI5h8JQE0&amp;feature\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1974 Evel Knievel launched himself across the Snake River Canyon in Idaho aboard the rocket powered Sky-Cycle in what was to be the biggest stunt and biggest flop of his daredevil career. The Skycycle X-1 and X-2 were more rocket than they were motorcycle and both were powered by overheated water rockets. This incredibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11608"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11616,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions\/11616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}