{"id":15272,"date":"2009-06-28T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T20:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15272"},"modified":"2009-07-03T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T22:26:01","slug":"video-skateboard-rocket-board-the-propellor-powered-skateboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15272","title":{"rendered":"Video Skateboard &#8211; Rocket Board: The Propellor-Powered Skateboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ryan Bavetta\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rocket Board doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually use a rocket, but it does look like one. The home-brew prop-powered skateboard carries a 3.7 HP model airplane engine which powers a propellor in a standard house-fan cage. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use gasoline or kerosene but proprietary Glow Fuel, a dangerous sounding mix of methanol, nitromethane and oil. The setup is enough to spin the prop at up to 10,000 RPM which, as you can see, can easily shift a person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What we love best about this video (apart from its entertaining professionalism and the freakin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rocket board) is that it shows &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2009\/06\/rocket-board-the-propellor-powered-skateboard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X8FM-USLlWQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X8FM-USLlWQ\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Bavetta\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rocket Board doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually use a rocket, but it does look like one. The home-brew prop-powered skateboard carries a 3.7 HP model airplane engine which powers a propellor in a standard house-fan cage. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use gasoline or kerosene but proprietary Glow Fuel, a dangerous sounding mix of methanol, nitromethane and oil. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272","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=15272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15529,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272\/revisions\/15529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}