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Land speed record - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Additionally, the records below do not distinguish between different recognized classes of the land speed record, such as top speed for a motorcycle (333.117 mph), top speed for a steam-driven vehicle (145.607 mph), or other top speeds that are not absolutes. Two figures are given, one for the speed measured over a kilometre long course, and one for a mile long course. Early records were not set according to clearly defined rules and thus some of them are controversial. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Land_speed_record   (241 words)

Talk:Land speed record - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The speeds are in mph they are actually 2 records the record of km and record of the mile. After 1914 the LSR as always been established by an automobile except the first Spirit of America wich was a tricycle and then assimilated to a motorcycle. The Budweiser Rocket entry is not an official land speed record. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Land_speed_record   (682 words)

Encyclopedia: Land speed record As of 2004, the population estimates recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 64,422. Richard Noble, OBE (born March 6, 1946) was a holder of the land speed record, and was the project director of the ThrustSSC, which currently holds the land speed record. The Budweiser Rocket was a 3-wheeled land vehicle powered by an hybrid liquid and solid-fuel rocket engine that is claimed to be the first vehicle to have broken the sound barrier on land (near sea level) driven by Stan Barrett. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Land-speed-record   (1964 words)

The Steam World Land Speed Record   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) This record stands as the ultimate record for any land speed record, but in the interest of fairness to different categories of vehicles the sanctioning body has created several classifications for the land speed record (LSR). Land speed records were measured across a marked mile in a single direction and a single pass. Today the FIA is still the sanctioning body and recognizes a land speed record as the average speed of two passes made across a measured distance in opposing directions within 60 minutes of each other. www.steamcar.co.uk /Challenge/Record.htm   (582 words)

Wheel-driven vehicle Land Speed Record History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The land speed record came to the United States in 1904 when Henry Ford wanted to prove to the world that his cars were built better than anyone else’s in the world. Sir Henry also attempted to capture the water speed record in his Miss England II when his boat hit a log in the water and capsized, killing Seagrave and mechanic Victor Halliwell. The record set by Bob Summers, the following week in 1965, was to signal the sunset of an era in land speed racing. www.teamvesco.com /history.htm   (902 words)

channel4.com - science - speed machines A land speed record was first set in 1898 by Frenchman Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, driving at 39.24mph. Having set one land speed record, he put the car up for sale but changed his mind when he learned that Welshman Parry Thomas was about to make an attempt on the record. In a twist to the story though, he did actually break the record, becoming the first person to hold both land and water speed records simultaneously. www.channel4.com /science/microsites/S/speedmachines/landspeed.html   (699 words)

Land Speed Record My bike had 3 speeds, not one, and when I had reached enough speed to flip the lever to 3rd gear, I half expected for the next push on the pedals to lift me off the sidewalk. We are looking for flat out speed but we are also interested in showcasing the superiority of the technological advances that went into the design of the GMC motorhome specifically. This foreboding land seemingly of another planet has lured men and their machines with multimillion dollar, corporate sponsored speed record assaults and shoestring grass roots hot rodding. www.gmccoop.com /land_speed_record.htm   (2915 words)

PUBLIC HIGHWAY LAND SPEED RECORD"tm Qualifications (results-record.htm)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The Record will be held by the driver who completes the 90 mile course in the shortest possible time and will reflect both the time and average speed. Record attempts may only be made on State Route #318 and only during the Nevada Open Road Challenge or Silver State Classic Challenge events. All holders of the Public Highway Land Speed Record will be listed on two perpetual trophies, one in the Capital Building of the State of Nevada in Carson City, and the other to be maintained at the SSCC Office in Las Vegas, Nevada. www.silverstateclassic.com /results-record.htm   (359 words)

The History of Land Speed Racing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Land speed record attempts are now over 100 years old. Gabelich's record stood unchallenged for 13 years, until on October 4, 1983 Richard Noble of the U.K. would drive his Thrust 2 to a new record of 633.468 mph (1016.083 km/h), but this time on Black Rock Desert in Nevada instead of at Bonneville. While the ThrustSSC stands alone in its class of land speed record vehicles to this day, there are those who are setting their sights on getting the record back; working quietly and patiently until their time comes to take a crack at the record and hopefully reclaim it once again. www.landspeed.com /learn.asp   (1601 words)

The Land Speed Record   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Despite the lack of challengers to his record, he wouldn't rest on his laurels and determined to be the first to 300mph. The Car achieved a new LSR of 276.816mph but it was clear Daytona was now becoming too short at 10 miles to give enough room for these high speeds and the soft surface caused wheelspin problems. Cobb's record was only to stand for one day however, as Eyston took his quickly modified behemoth out the next morning and raised the record to 357.50mph. www.peterrenn.clara.net /l.s.r.html   (3734 words)

Land speed record again under assault   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Mach 1, which is the speed of sound, would be about 750 mph along the mile-high track in the Black Rock Desert. 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. The speed of the runs is averaged, which is how a record is determined. www.chron.com /content/chronicle/sports/car/97/09/06/6moto-nb.2-0.html   (1084 words)

Feature The World Unlimited Land Speed Record is the last great act of hot rod culture - and perhaps the American Dream. Raw speed and this act of perceiving what no one has perceived shoves these racers very squarely back into their bodies and very literally down to Earth, where the clock ticks out milliseconds as loud as a pile driver. Although his damaged vehicle was unable to run the requisite second trial, Breedlove's failed world record attempt was the first time in 13 years that anyone had threatened the still-current record of 633.470 mph set by Britain's Richard Noble in his Thrust 2 in 1983. www.wired.com /wired/archive/5.10/es_speed.html   (802 words)

SUNET Internet Land speed record   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The unit for the record, petabit-meters per second (Pbmps), can seem to be a bit confusing. The reason for using this unit of measurement is that both the transmission speed (gigabits per second) and the distance covered (meters) is taken into account, since it gets harder and harder as the distance increases! As the Internet2 rules state that a single stream record is also considered för the multiple stream class, and our single stream figures are higher than the multiple one, our single stream record actually counts as the official multiple stream record too. proj.sunet.se /LSR   (248 words)

Land-speed record sought in Pierce County / Northwest -The Olympian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) In a hangar at the Shady Acres Airport in Spanaway on May 22, co-owner and driver Ed Shadle sits in the cockpit of an old chase jet that is being turned into a three-wheeled vehicle for an attempt on the land-speed record. Now a team of Pierce County men eager to break the world land-speed record is building it into a 39,000-horsepower vehicle with solid aluminum wheels designed for desert surfaces. Shadle and Zanghi, partners from an earlier superfast-vehicle project, got their idea to re-engineer a fighter jet in 1997 as they were wondering what they needed to break the world land-speed record. www.theolympian.com /home/news/20030619/northwest/32153.shtml   (535 words)

Land Speed Record Obtaining these records was the result of a remarkable team effort that was conceived and executed in three months; mostly using the Internet. When the week was over we held the record we had gone after for and another record that started as just a way to pass time while waiting for a part to arrive, and ended with a second class record. During the few days the Land Speed Records were being set, I can't count the times I was overwhelmed by the good news coming back from the Flats. www.mgnoc.com /_overlay/Archives/land_speed_record.htm   (4264 words)

MG Owners' Club Enjoying MG - October 98 - The Land Speed Recor Among the most widely acclaimed Land Speed record breakers who relied on Castrol lubricants were Sir Malcolm Campbell and Sir Henry Seagrave, whose performances with their Bluebird and Golden Arrow cars captivated the public. This was the last Land Speed Record record to be set on a road or a track, drivers needing to use the large open straights on beaches or salt flats to achieve higher speeds. A set of four Land Speed Record posters is supplied Free with the single retail purchase of four gallons or more of Castrol Classic Oil. www.mgcars.org.uk /cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=mgoc&p=emg/theland.htm   (691 words)

CNN - British duo sets first supersonic land-speed record - Oct. 15, 1997 The jet-powered car rocketed by at 759.333 mph on its first run, and about 30 minutes later set the record when it was clocked at 766.109 mph on its second attempt. The speed of sound, which varies according to weather and altitude, was calculated Wednesday morning at 748.111 mph. Green set a world land-speed record of 714.144 mph in the Thrust SSC on September 25, shattering the previous record of 633 mph set in 1983 by Noble. www.cnn.com /TECH/9710/15/brits.land.speed   (336 words)

ThrustSSC - Breaking the sound barrier on land Having driven the Spirit of America to a best speed of 636 miles per hour in 1997, Breedlove has claimed to be optimistic about regaining the Land Speed Record, with runs of at least 771 miles per hour. When the car was tested at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour, it was found that it could be held in a straight line to within a one-inch tolerance. In order to set a new Land Speed Record (and the first official supersonic Land Speed Record set in a car), the car's first run has to backed up with a second run in the opposite direction within one hour. www.roadsters.com /750   (4550 words)

THE WORLD LAND SPEED RECORD STORY AND THE ELECTRIC BLUEBIRD LAND SPEED RECORD PROJECT HISTORY Captain George Eyston's Thunderbolt record car, a 73 litre, twin Rolls Royce engined monster raised the target to 312.00mph in 1937, starting a duel with the quiet, modest Surrey fur broker John R Cobb, whose exploits in the 23 litre Napier Railton at Brooklands and Bonneville were well known. Although the first land speed record was set by an electric vehicle, electricity as a power source for transport, has not seen the development needed to keep pace with the requirements of modern living, this despite the fact we need clean transport more than ever. The record would then have gone full cycle, where the first land speed record was indeed electric. www.bluebird-electric.net /land_speed_record_history.htm   (5343 words)

WHEEL DRIVEN LAND SPEED RECORD By the time Al Teague had scraped 409,one could buy a road car that genuinely did over half that speed, if it had the space, and a top fuel dragster could top 300mph in 4 seconds with a mere 440 yards of acceleration. Vesco has now run 427 mph (although this is only officially a national record) but it was a long and arduous effort to reach that figure - it's taken many years of trying and hundreds of thousands of dollars. The gas turbine engine offers an awefull lot of power for very little weight,and the potential is there for a much greater speed, if only they can run on a course that's smoother and longer that the depleted salt flats in Utah. www.simonlewis.com /lsr3.html   (540 words)

CNN - British team breaks land speed record - September 25, 1997 GERLACH, Nevada (CNN) -- British fighter pilot Andy Green shattered the world land speed record on Thursday with a run nearly 74 mph faster than the one his boss set here almost 14 years ago. Under the rules, the car must exceed the old record by 1 percent during two timed runs through a measured mile. The British car is in a back-and-forth showdown in the desert against American driver Craig Breedlove, who held the land speed record several times in the 1960s. www.cnn.com /TECH/9709/25/land.speed.record   (385 words)

World Land Speed Record Albert Einstein, as a corollary to the theory of relativity, suggested that time and mass are distorted as a consciousness approaches the speed of light. They are scheduled to make a run at the new land speed record in an hour and a half. “Speed, in terms of a race car, is hard to explain to someone who has never had an opportunity to sit in one or do anything like that. www.pyramid.net /burghart/racers.html   (3858 words)

New Land Speed Record One of the problems of living in Vermont and building a land sailing yacht is there is no place to sail it. They shattered the world record on March 15 by going 108mph, and on March 20 they increased it to 116.7mph. Schumacher and Dill are hoping to bring together a group of sailors and designers focused solely on speed at next year's event. www.harborwatch.com /news/new_land_speed_record.htm   (472 words)

New Pocketbike land speed record - 78mph - TwoWheelForum Motorcycle instructor Alec Tague, 39, broke the mini moto speed record on his miniature Italian bike when he took to the tarmac yesterday. Alec reached a speed of 78mph on the bike - which has a seat only a foot off the ground - smashing the record of 63.8mph previously set by American David Myers. Meanwhile, a 47-year-old estate agent broke the world speed record for driving a car blindfolded - on his practice run. www.twowheelforum.com /showthread.php?t=868   (411 words)

Internet2 Land Speed Record Multiple Stream Class: 216,300 terabit-meters per second by a team consisting of members from the University of Tokyo, the WIDE project, and Chelsio Communication and other organizations by sending 1485 gigabytes of data across 30,000 kilometers of network over 30 minutes at an average rate of 7.21 gigabits per second. Any record setter in a single stream class will be automatically be considered for the multiple stream record in the same category. In computing the amount of data transferred, only data transferred from user-process-space buffer(s) in the data-source network application to user-process-space buffer(s) in the data-sink network application may be counted. lsr.internet2.edu   (904 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Land Speed Record [Live]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) On LAND SPEED RECORD, the Minnesota trio Husker Du debuted with a chaotic live recording that presented the band in allits unbridled early fury. LAND SPEED's decidedly low-fidelity recording suits the primitive rage of the music. Land Speed Record is a fabulous example of early hardcore in action, and surely if I'd been alive back then live would be the best way to listen to the compressed fury of the music. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000M46   (586 words)

Land Speed Record models Lately, things have gone a little quiet in terms of record attempts, due to the huge budgets and years of planning that are needed to have a crack at the record today. This lull in interest in the outright record has lead to a boom in other record attempts, such as the wind-powered record. Many of the LSR cars that are currently being modelled are ones that competed in the lower classes, such as the beautiful Svesda M Nami from 1951 (VER004). www.grandprixmodels.co.uk /newspages/landspeed.htm   (523 words)

New Scientist Breaking News - Electric land speed record attempt all set The "ABB e=motion" car will have to surpass the existing record of 396 km/h (245 mph), and the British Primetime team behind the car believes that 480 km/h (300 mph) could be achieved on further runs. Fallows and Newby are experienced drag racers and hold the UK speed record for jet-powered cars. The existing electric land speed record was set by driver Pat Rummerfield in White Lightning at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, US, in October 1999. www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn5077   (556 words)

Land Speed Record Cars - Mail order North America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Alex Xydias's So-Cal Speed Shop was one of the leading garages producing exceptional salt flat cars and the So-Cal tank ran three different flat-head Ford engines in 1952 in three different classes. It broke two records in 1952 at 198.34 mph and would probably have broken a third had the first Chrysler Hemi powered tanks not arrived. At the Bonneville Speed Week in 1952 it won 6 awards and was declared "The Most Honored Car In The History Of Bonneville." www.sportcraftcars.com /landspeedrecord.htm   (204 words)

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