Today in the elevator we had yet one more opportunity to relive a favorite episode of an entertaining show called MythBusters.

The premise:

The story of the jet-assisted Chevy goes like this. The Arizona Highway Patrol stumbled across a blackened crater in the side of a mountain at the end of a long stretch of desert road. After an investigation, they learned that an Air Force sergeant from a nearby military base had attached a rocket-assisted takeoff unit to the roof of a 1967 Chevy Impala. He got up to about 80 mph, and then fired the things off. Within seconds the car was traveling at 350 mph. The crater was found in the mountainside 100 feet off the ground. Who do you think will be the "dummy" to test this myth?

So, these guys try to recreate the scene. The first thing they do is call GE and/or Pratt & Whitney, and say "Hi, I'd like to order one JATO engine please. How much will that costs?"

On the other end of the line you hear a long pause... "Um, sir, we don't usually sell just one to a private citizen."

Ok, after typing that in, it makes me think that maybe this is only funny to an aerospace engineer. But it cracks me up.