Jet Powered Wheel Chair

Giuseppe Cannella had a big surprise for his mother-in-law when he put a jet engine on the back of her wheelchair.
Mr Cannella says the chair can now do top speeds of more than 60mph and has proved the star of a model plane championship during the Bank Holiday.

A model plane enthusiast himself, Mr Cannella has been putting on shows at Barkston Heath near Grantham, Lincs.

"It is just the wheelchair with the engine bolted on the back and steering on the front," he said.

Holiday surprise

"Originally it was a gimmick. I had a jet engine and I was going to put it on a go cart.


I have done it for fun - I just like going up and down in it

Giuseppe Cannella
"But the missus says put it on something unusual and so I put it on the mother-in-law's wheelchair," said Mr Cannella, who is from Luton in Bedfordshire.

"She was on holiday at the time so she didn't know what I was doing until she came back.

"She actually thought I was doing it for her."

Mr Cannella's mother-in-law, who had bought a new wheelchair, has Parkinson's disease.

Her son-in-law has been collecting money for the Parkinson's Disease Society and hopes to collect up to �1,500 during the shows at the British Model Flying Association national championship.

"I have done it for fun, I just like going up and down in it," said Mr Cannella.



This could be the next thing for old ladies! What do you think about this?

[edit on 30-8-2004 by Minime]

you ever see "Freddy Got Fingerred"?

Hilarious Tom Green movie including a similar idea although the scientist was a saucy paraplegic blonde who liked to get her legs whipped!!!

I gotta get me one of those!I just got a new TiLite Titanium chair.Bet i could hit 100mph with that jet strapped to it....lol.

Quick, somebody call Christopher Reeve!

LOL I want a jet engined powered wheelchair. I wonder is it sidewalk legal if you can go 60 m.p.h. with it?