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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Craig Breedlove
		Craig Breedlove (born March 23, 1937) was a five-time world land speed record holder.
		Breedlove seemed more concerned about the car than his own well- being Monday after "Spirit of America" caught a jolt of wind, took a sudden right-hand turn at a record speed of 675 miles per hour, tipped on its side and careened a mile-and- a-half off course toward the edge of the dry lake bed.
		Bill Breedlove, a cousin and the project's operations manager, said the wind was almost nonexistent five miles away at the top of the track, and the team was taken by surprise by its velocity down the course.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Craig-Breedlove (463 words)

	The Racing Campbells - Donald & Malcolm Campbell - Craig Breedlove
		His father, Norman, was a motion picture studio special effects man. Breedlove's mother, Portia, worked at the studios as a dancer, performing with the likes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
		With sponsorship funds from Shell Oil Co. and Goodyear, Breedlove finished his revolutionary new jet-car in 1962 and took it to Bonneville, expecting to break Englishman John Cobb's land speed record of 394 mph in an effort to bring home the record to America for the first time in more than 30 years.
		Craig returned to Bonneville with Spirit of America to defend his reputation with a new speed record of his own, at 468 mph.
	www.racingcampbells.com /content/campbell.archives/breedlove.asp (1037 words)

	NOVA Online \| Faster Than Sound \| Speed Machines
		Craig Arfons, a former automotive drag racing champion, was the next to take up the challenge.
		Breedlove, a race car driver since his teens, has assembled a team of mechanics whose goal, according to crew chief Dezso Molnar, was to design "a car as simple as we could possibly make it -- with as few moving parts as possible."
		Breedlove's Spirit of America is slight by comparison -- measuring only 47 feet and weighing a mere 4 tons.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/barrier/machines.html (1327 words)

	Craig Breedlove
		Craig Breedlove (born March 23, 1937) was five time the world land speed record holder.
		He was the first to reach 400 mph, 500 mph and 600 mph, uning turbojet-powered vehicles named "Spirit of America"
		During the 1970s, Breedlove raced a rocket dragster powered with a lunar module motor fueled by hydrazine.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cr/Craig_Breedlove.html (52 words)

	Electric Nevada
		Breedlove seemed more concerned about the car than his own well- being Monday after "Spirit of America" caught a jolt of wind, took a sudden right-hand turn at a record speed of 675 miles per hour, tipped on its side and careened a mile-and- a-half off course toward the edge of the dry lake bed.
		Breedlove, 59, was attempting to set the world land speed record for the sixth time, and for the first time in 31 years.
		Bill Breedlove, a cousin and the project's operations manager, said the wind was almost nonexistent five miles away at the top of the track, and the team was taken by surprise by its velocity down the course.
	www.electricnevada.com /pages96/gerlach3.htm (878 words)

	Craig Breedlove - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Craig Breedlove (born March 23, 1937) was a five-time world land speed record holder.
		Breedlove reached 408.312 mph (657.114 km/h) in the Spirit of America at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, thus making him the holder of the land speed record.
		Breedlove reached 468.719 mph (754.330 km/h) in the Spirit of America Sonic 1 at Bonneville Salt Flats, reclaiming the land speed record from Art Arfons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Craig_Breedlove (426 words)

	CRAIG BREEDLOVE AND SPIRIT OF AMERICA 1937 TO 2004: JET POWERED LAND SPEED RECORD CAR: DON VESCO AND TURBINATOR: ...
		Everyone agreed that Breedlove had driven this 38-ft.-long tricycle in both directions across Bonneville's measured mile at an average speed of 407.45 mph, clearly a record for wheeled vehicles.
		Breedlove's land speed record was recognized by the United States Auto Club, which had established a new class for wheeled jet-propelled land vehicles, and by the international motorcycle body, Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, as a world record for 3-wheeled vehicles.
		Breedlove plans to reclaim the record soon with a run of 800 miles per hour in his new snazzy good looking Spirit of America 3.
	www.bluebird-electric.net /craig_breedlove.htm (1415 words)

	Craig Breedlove - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
		Craig Breedlove bought his first car at the age of 13.
		Breedlove clocked a record run of 407 mph in this car at Bonneville in 1963 to return the world land speed record to America after more than three decades.
		Breedlove plans to reclaim the record soon with a run of 800 miles per hour that would far exceed the minimum 771 mph run needed to break Green's existing mark.
	www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/2000/Craig_Breedlove_main.htm (246 words)

	Craig Breedlove Unveils Speed Of Sound Land Speed Record Car
		Craig Breedlove, former holder of the World Land Speed Record, now 59 years young, showed The Auto Channel and a group of automotive journalists the actual Shell sponsored 45000 HP three wheeler with which he'll go for the gold in August.
		Breedlove has been working for a dozen years on the new "Spirit" and he vows that he will run well over 700 MPH at Bonneville next month.
		Actor/racer Craig T. Nelson attended the unveiling and has lent his name to the effort, as he has bought the movie rights to the Craig Breedlove story.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/date/19960712/news01216.html (443 words)

	Gay Rights Watch
		Breedlove, then an intern for state Rep. Kim Thatcher, a Keizer Republican, asked to meet with Adams the next time he came to Portland.
		Craig, who announced Saturday that he intended to resign from the U.S. Senate effective Sept. 30, backed away from that announcement this week by saying he would resign only if he wasnât able to clear his name first.
		Larry Craig, R-Idaho, is reconsidering his decision to resign after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting and may still fight for his Senate seat, his spokesman said Tuesday evening.
	www.gayrightswatch.com (1916 words)

	Motorsports Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Breedlove's Goodyear-backed effort ignited an intense "tire war" with the Firestone-sponsored Arfons brothers that would see the LSR change hands six times in three years.
		Craig recaptured the LSR at 526.277 mph, but nearly drowned on the record setting return lap.
		Breedlove's final LSR would endure for five years before Gary Gabelich averaged 622.407 with rocket power.
	www.mshf.com /hof/breedlove_craig.htm (427 words)

	articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Breedlove crashed at the tail end of his first run, which means he never got to make a second, which means his 675-mile-per-hour run, his attempt to break the sound barrier in a car, was all for naught.
		Craig Breedlove is just that, a guy in a garage, and he has always been just that, and this is the reason he is such a national treasure.
		All of this isn’t to say Craig Breedlove is lucky, because if he were just lucky, he might have set one land speed record and not five; if he were just lucky, he might have broken his legs or his back or had his jaw wired after driving a car headlong into the sea.
	stevenkotler.com /articles/gq-breedlove.html (3077 words)

	Land speed record again under assault (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Craig Breedlove, 60, hopes to turn back the clock to his land speed glory days and bring the record back to the United States.
		Breedlove predicts a record in his Shell Spirit of America car and a 700-mph run, but he said the speed of sound must await further testing by an automatic pilot system that hasn't even been designed.
		Breedlove went much faster last year at Black Rock, reaching a speed of 675 mph Oct. 28 before a gust of wind caused him to lose control of the vehicle.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/sports/car/97/09/06/6moto-nb.2-0.html (1084 words)

	4.11: The Fast American Hero
		Breedlove was 13 years old in 1950 when he bought his first car, a chopped and channeled 1934 Ford three-window hot rod coupe with a supercharged V-8 engine.
		At 59, Breedlove is unwilling to pull back from his goal of again holding the land speed record, as he did for a stretch in the 1970s and 1980s.
		Meanwhile, Craig Breedlove focuses on the present, the brief precious moments, the beauty of the complicated design process, and the equipment that will mark his last run for the record book.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/4.11/breedlove_pr.html (3333 words)

	Breedlove Was A Hell Of An Act To Follow (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Craig Breedlove wangled his way into see Vic Holt, who just happened to be president of Goodyear, and made his Land Speed Record presentation.
		Breedlove also made his pitch to Shell Oil co. and got another 10 grand and lo and behold in 1963 the brash young dare devil was screaming across the Salt Flats in his 38 foot long, rocket powered Spirit of America.
		Craig, the master of understatement, tells the story, "here I was hurtling along at about 500 miles an hour with no steering, no chute and no brakes.
	home.flash.net /~dralstin/stories/BreedloveAct.htm (886 words)

	The New York Times: This Day In Sports
		The record runs were so smooth and effortless that Breedlove slowed down at the south end of the course, made a big sweeping turn and parked the streamlined vehicle next to a moving van that served as his mobile repair shop.
		Craig Breedlove's record was broken by Gary Gabelich of Long Beach, Calif., in October 1970.
		Craig Breedlove driving his jet-powered Spirit of America across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to a world land speed record of 468.719 miles an hour in October 1964.
	www.nytimes.com /packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/11.15.html (734 words)

	Wired 4.11: The Fast American Hero
		It's this rarely revealed obsessive side that compels Breedlove to become the fastest man on the planet, a distinction that defines his celebrity and has sometimes overwhelmed his life.
		Breedlove speaks almost bashfully when reminded of Noble's threat, reminding you of his own big stick: a 44-foot vehicle with a J-79 General Electric jet engine (with afterburner) from a Navy F-4 Phantom fighter aircraft.
		Craig and his wife, Marilyn, live in the front of the garage in the converted showroom.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/4.11/breedlove.html (712 words)

	San Francisco - News - Magnificent Obsession - sfweekly.com
		Breedlove found himself skidding across the ground like a giant Roman candle, the desert floor roaring by inches beneath him, careening at nearly supersonic speed toward a mountain range at the edge of the playa.
		Breedlove's latest Spirit of America is the culmination of a love affair that began in 1958 when, at age 21, he became dissatisfied with the drudgery of working two jobs to support a wife and three kids.
		Breedlove was working as a fireman, and during his downtime began reading books on aerodynamic speed vehicles, sometimes carrying the books with him to the scene of a fire.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/2000-11-15/news/feature_full.html (4299 words)

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		Craig was in town for the grand opening of RaceRock which was coordinated with the local SEMA auto show in vegas.
		Craig told me the car ran on rocket fuel which just after finishing the car was made illegal for use in the US.
		Craig was forced to go back to using jet power for his cars (which he uses in his current car).
	thcnet.net /index.php?section=article,29 (176 words)

	Sam Low's Library - Speed
		Craig Breedlove pilots Spirit of America through the flying mile at Bonneville's land speed record course.
		Breedlove, now 59 years old, still looks the youthful "Captain America" who captured the land speed record five times and set a record of 600.61 MPH in 1965.
		Craig is certain the after burner produced excessive much thrust which caused him to modulate the throttle.
	www.samlow.com /speed/fastestrace.html (3885 words)

	American Motors AMX
		Breedlove, his wife and Dykes began the assault dn records February 4, 1968 on a circular five-mile track in Texas and methodically erased Class C marks for 25 through 5,000 kilometers as well as one, three, six, 12 and 24 hour records.
		Craig and Lee Breedlove toured the U.S. in a series of AMX dealer introductions in 1968.
		Approximately 50 Red, White and Blue Craig Breedlove 290 4 speed AMX's were made by the factory and sold to the public in in honor of the record run.
	www.amxfiles.com /amc/breedlove.html (808 words)

	LAS VEGAS RJ:NEWS: Craig Breedlove seeks to break sound barrier
		Craig Breedlove is determined to become the second as he tries to return the world land-speed record to the United States.
		Craig Breedlove races across the Black Rock Desert 100 miles north of Reno during a qualifying run Oct. 27, 1996.
		Meanwhile, Breedlove struggled to reach a peak speed of 636 mph, barely exceeding Noble's mark of 13 years earlier.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/1998/Mar-19-Thu-1998/news/7160235.html (534 words)

	Marshall Pruett » Blog Archive » Black Rock
		Craig, having flipped over at 575mph in ‘96 on an initial trial run in the SOA, skidding almost upside down for nearly 3 miles(!) finally coming to rest in a shallow lake, and insisted that load cells and the dash alarm lights be implemented during the vehicle’s repairs.
		As a veteran of land speed pursuits, Craig was attuned to his vehicle enough to feel the slight shift at the rear of the SOA, and said he noticed the light came on just as he felt the slight pitch at the rear.
		Craig had just driven for nearly a full mile at over 350mph in a rocket that was bicycling on two wheels.
	www.marshallpruett.com /2006/03/11/black-rock (1681 words)

	ISO-Insights.com: Sprit of America
		Craig Breedlove, the first person to drive a car at 400 mph, 500 mph, and 600 mph, is at it again.
		Breedlove was easily on his way to the 700 mph mark when the car flipped up on its side.
		Craig Breedlove isn’t the only one venturing into the unknown on this project.
	www.iso-insights.com /spiritofamerica.html (1509 words)

	World's fastest car is sold, Breedlove says / Look for the Spirit of America to assault the land speed record
		Breedlove started messing around with cars in high school in Southern California, the fertile training ground that provided many of the nation's top race drivers and engine and car designers and builders.
		Earlier this year, Breedlove answered the doorbell at his sprawling facility in Rio Vista and gave this reporter an impromptu tour of the home base for the new Spirit of America -- new in the sense that it was a successor to the old one.
		Breedlove talked about the 1997 blown engine "putting us out of business" and the fact that he had been "working on getting sponsors ever since." But they never came through.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/31/MTGRJNA8051.DTL (755 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Craig Breedlove
		John Campbell's speed of 403.164 mph, set in 1964, was recognized as the record for axle-driven vehicles and Breedlove's was recognized as the jet-powered record.
		On October 15, Breedlove reclaimed the record with an average of 526.61 mph.
		He was clocked at 539.89 mph on the second of the required two runs, which ended in a terrible crash when Breedlove couldn't stop the vehicle.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/breedlov.shtml (356 words)

	Mr. & Mrs. Speedlove \| TIME
		And then there was Craig Breedlove, 28, an ex-fireman from Palos Verdes, Calif., whose addiction to speed has cost him his life savings, one marriage, and very nearly his life.
		Breedlove wrecked the original Spirit by driving it into a salt pond, and this fall he was back at Bonneville with a four-wheeled, jet-powered monstrosity that looked like the product of a union between a pop bottle and a fighter plane.
		Craig himself designed the car's aluminum and fiber-glass body; the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. agreed to foot most of the bill (about $200,000) and supply tires guaranteed to 850 m.p.h.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,834580-1,00.html (691 words)

	ThrustSSC - The fastest car in the world
		Breedlove and his team struggled with everything from a damaged engine (and a spare engine back in California that they hadn't even brought with them) to getting their truck and trailer stuck in the mud (and then being pulled out by the members of the ThrustSSC team).
		Craig Breedlove stated that he still intends to beat the current record set by the ThrustSSC team.
		Craig Breedlove and the Spirit of America race team were already at Black Rock, preparing for their own assault on the land speed record, and the sound barrier.
	roadsters.com /750 (4550 words)

	Oregon Aero - "Customers" (page 4).
		Craig Breedlove sits on a custom designed Oregon Aero seat cushion system when he drives at supersonic speeds.
		Craig Breedlove wants to be sitting on an Oregon Aero seat cushion when he drives at supersonic speeds!
		A five-time world land speed record holder, Breedlove and the Spirit of America™ World Speed Record Team asked Oregon Aero to design and build a custom seat cushion system for the confined space of their LSR vehicle.
	www.oregonaero.com /Customers5.htm (671 words)

	Land Speed Record - History - Hot Rod Magazine
		Meanwhile, Craig Breedlove—the first person to officially top the 400-, 500- and 600-mph mark—is trying to be the first to officially go faster than the speed of sound (730 mph at sea level) on five wheels.
		Here, Breedlove is on his way to a new Unlimited record of 408 mph, which he set on August 5, 1963.
		Breedlove’s first record return run ended up in a brine pond at the west end of the Bonneville Salt Flats after he experienced a drag chute failure.
	www.hotrod.com /thehistoryof/land_speed_record_history (1284 words)

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