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by petewailes 1276 days ago
I could go into the physics, but in short, no. Two hard contact patches just grab way more than a propeller can on air.

In water it'd work, but then you've made a boat and the wheels are irrelevant.

Boats have always been capable of faster acceleration in theory. Problem Child, for example, did 0 to above 250mph in about 3.5s.