Announces Expanded 2009 Season Schedule
Turbine-engine tunes with an emphasis on afterburner base notes will make beautiful music as Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University unleashes a symphony of speed on North America in 2009 when
the student-designed Embry-Riddle Jet Dragster hits the highways for
the next racing season.
The Embry-Riddle Jet Racing Team is perfectly positioned for its
biggest season ever with more than 25 major drag-racing venues already
scheduled for 2009, including major events in Bradenton, Fla., Norwalk,
Ohio, Atlanta, Chicago, and the EAA airshow in Oshkosh, Wis.
The Florida-based team is spending the off-season preparing its
equipment and spares for the fifth full season of exhibition racing of
the Embry-Riddle jet car. The Embry-Riddle Jet Dragster, driven by
veteran drag-racing driver Elaine Larsen, is powered by a Pratt &
Whitney J-60 engine and accelerates from zero to 60 mph in less than a
second and reaches top speeds approaching 300 mph in a quarter of a
mile. Larsen is one of only three women currently driving jet-powered
race vehicles in the United States.