Land speed record over 1000mph

Hey there's an idea......

http://www.landspeed.com/

They're shooting for 800, better hurry.....

Rich

 

Does anyone know if the rules allow moveable airfoils to control direction on these things, or must steering be done via wheels?

 

i already know how to fly , been doing it for 38 years

 

Burkland's adveaged 415.896 September 2008

 

May the force be with them...

 

it has a v12 as the fuel pump
surely that must get the old uns excited

 

I think this is the record for piston powered.wheel driven cars, while Vesco's is the record for wheel driven cars-but they use a gas turbine to drive the wheels.

 

They don't used "tires"-the "rollies" are all metal.

 

I wonder if they acted like Dr. Evil when they were ask how fast they were gonna attempt to go.

You know, 1 million dollars...mmmmmuuaaaaaa!

I guess that would be,.... 1 thousand miles an hour....mmmmmmmuuuaaaaaa!!

 

Here is a very interesting site with the records listed in sequence.

http://www.peterrenn.clara.net/l.s.r.html

 

I remember seeing a do***entary about an unmanned rocket sled going 6,426 mph and thinking….DAMN
I’m impressed by speed; it doesn’t matter if it’s in the air or on the ground
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I wish them luck.

 

ferny

 

yikes. that's scary. I opened up this thread because I thought it read "land speed record over 100mph"... We're building a 27T 4 cyl to run over 100mph in the vintage cl***. ha ha.

 

36-3Window wrote:

If you want to break the 1000 mph barrier, then haul the Space Shuttle over to Black Rock, lay her on her belly and light her up. At least you'd wouldn't have to worry about burning up. Crashing may be a problem.
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Why? At some point, this just gets pointless and ridiculous. They might already have crossed that point in my opinion. Just do it until enough people die I guess and then you will know it was too much. Some where along the line, just basic physics, reality along with some luck with variables dictates the limit and I guess they want to find where that is. Hate to see that a few deaths might be what is required to make the point that just seems a bit pointless.

 

good luck to them

 

Scheduling my Bonneville trip NOW for that one!

 

Plan on being pretty lonely if your at Bonneville while they are doing the 1000mph runs

 

The speed of sound is 742 mph will trear be a sonic boom?

 

The speed of sound actually depends on humidity,air pressure and temperature,so it is variable. At sea level, the speed of sound in dry air at 20 &#176;C (68 &#176;F), is 343 m/s. This also equates to 1235 km/h, 767 mph,or 1125 ft/s.

So when a record is attempted, the speed of sound will need to be calculated for that time and place. And yes, if it is exceeded, there will be a sonic boom. Observers heard a sonic boom on both ends of Thrust SSC's record run.

 

Yep!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aYxN6koH9v8

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aYxN6koH9v8

Just listen to the speed which he clicks of the speed in that second video. 350-400-450-etc.

 

now if anyone thinks that ain,t cool!!...........

 

kinda fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXro9CNOjY

 

added film at start

 

Im impressed by it, still more impressed buy something that is pushed along by the old reciprocating piston but hey....
I got to meet Andy Green the 'pilot' of SSC, he was a pretty down to earth guy, not full of himself for being the fastest man on the surface of the planet. Pommy Tornado pilot and skydiver. Meet him at the military parachute nationals and jumped with him. Wonder if they will look for another pilot for this one?

 

You know when Andy Green arrived back in England when he got that ***tle nobody was there to greet him, Kind of a hollow achievement, seems like a lot on here think so too!!!.................

 

great some british guys with tons of money to blow on a jet car thing (16 million I dont know if it includes the donated eurofighter engine)come over here and go 1000mph with a wingless jet. I think it is cooler when a guy in his garage builds his own car and breaks a much much slower record.

 

I'm wondering if they will bother with a roll cage and 5 point harness, etc. or will they just depend on the drivers **** puckering enough at 1000mph to stick him to the seat?

 

see

 

Most of the same people who are unimpressed with the 1000 mph effort are the same people that egerly followed the Breedlove - Arfons see saw in HRM. But now they are cooler than that. That is the ones old enough to read HRM at the time