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This will not end well
01/13/12 at 13:35:48

2,000mph car made from bits of space planes and nuclear missiles

One man's mission to ~~break the land speed record.~~ to win a darwin award. Oh noes!

Grin

too funny

...um, WHERE exactly does one get orbiter and misile parts from? ...ebay?

(all engineering talent aside, sharp as a marble that one, darn! Grin

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HOW SONIC SPEED COMPARES...

100mph: Suzuki Savage, downhill and with Lancer-kit, the coolest production motorcycle.

194mph: Suzuki Hayabusa, the fastest production motorcycle.

267.856mph: Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, the fastest production car.

614mph: Maximum speed of Boeing 747-400 passenger jet.

763mph: Current land speed record, Briton Andy Green ThrustSSC.

1,350mph: Maximum speed of Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde.

2,000mph: Proposed top speed of the Sonic Wind LSRV.

2,275mph: Maximum speed of the SR-71 Blackbird.

4,519mph: X-15, the fastest non-orbital aircraft.

18,000mph: Space Shuttle top orbital speed.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086232/Waldo-Stakess-bid-break-land-...

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Bonus section

Anyone remember this?
Amazing photogpaphs!

United Airlines Flight 826 and Trans World Airlines Flight 266 – collide on December 16, 1960, NYC.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086028/Photos-1960-Brooklyn-airline-...

btw, THIS is what a plane wreck looks like, unlike those 911 wrecks.

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Built2Last Serious Thumper Offline Tempt Fate Posts: 1447 FTF Gender:	Re: This will not end well Reply #1 - 01/13/12 at 14:07:02 If he puts a little bit of Sea Foam in the gas tank he'll be able to idle better before he attempts the world record...
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Stimpy - FSO Serious Thumper Offline SuzukisSavage Int'l Division Posts: 1203 Germany - formerly SD, SoCal Gender:	Re: This will not end well Reply #2 - 01/13/12 at 14:15:32 Built2Last wrote on 01/13/12 at 14:07:02: If he puts a little bit of Sea Foam in the gas tank he'll be able to idle better before he attempts the world record... ...and so the sea foam war continues, lol
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28887 L.A. California Gender:	Re: This will not end well Reply #3 - 01/13/12 at 14:43:17 I don't know who's going to lite that candle, but I hope to watch.
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Built2Last Serious Thumper Offline Tempt Fate Posts: 1447 FTF Gender:	Re: This will not end well Reply #4 - 01/13/12 at 17:56:55 Stimpy - FSO wrote on 01/13/12 at 14:15:32: ...and so the sea foam war continues, lol That was just a little joke (and now he's jest jokin' about lighting off Sea Foam WWIII)
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Re: This will not end well
Reply #5 - 01/13/12 at 21:09:07

Stimp, I take issue with the SR-71 top speed. 2275 looks correct as long as you add, "as far as we know". Grin

We have one about 90 miles away at Huntsville Al Space museum. I thought they were going to arrest me for fondling an airplane. And the X-15 has always been a favorite. It still holds the speed record over the shuttle in its classification. I believe it set that record in 1967. I remember when Life magazine had crash photos and all kinds of stuff when I was a kid in the 60's. It made an impression on me. I go to the antique store here and buy Life mags as birthday gifts. You can get one in the same week as people's b'day. They love looking at styles and prices of the week they were born. Always a hit.

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Built2Last Serious Thumper Offline Tempt Fate Posts: 1447 FTF Gender:	Re: This will not end well Reply #6 - 01/13/12 at 22:56:08 Quote: (and now he's jest jokin' about lighting off Sea Foam WWIII) aha
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28887 L.A. California Gender:	Re: This will not end well Reply #7 - 01/14/12 at 09:40:07 both planes can fly fast enough to melt the skin right off it's own back.
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Toymaker Serious Thumper Offline Dragon Rider Posts: 1534 Granite Falls, NC Gender:	Re: This will not end well Reply #8 - 01/15/12 at 04:57:05 speak of the SR-71, there ae many, many things STILL classified about that craft. Top speed is one of them. Also, did you all realize that the early pilots of the '71 use to get their ASTRONAUT wings...until the top brass figured out that we were giving the Russians top secret info in awarding them?...ah....my days at "NASA?" T
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Re: This will not end well
Reply #9 - 01/16/12 at 10:34:10

Toymaker -

I think the X-15 pilots also got astronaut wings, didn't they? Wasn't the requirement to fly an aircraft (spacecraft) at least to 100,000 feet in altitude?

While the SR-71 was a great airplane, I don't think it went that high, did it? At 100,000 there is so little air that a jet engine of any variant would have a hard time maintianing combustion. I have a nephew who was a crew chief on one, maybe I'll ask him if he can tell me.

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Toymaker Serious Thumper Offline Dragon Rider Posts: 1534 Granite Falls, NC Gender:	Re: This will not end well Reply #10 - 01/16/12 at 12:14:44 Jerry, yep that 71 would and did go that high...As for how fast.....all I can say is when they were flying over Red China, the Chicoms would fire s/a rockets...and before they reached altitude, the 71's were landing at Kadena.
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arteacher Serious Thumper Offline Ride as if your naked and invisable! Posts: 2581 London ontario Gender:	Re: This will not end well Reply #11 - 01/16/12 at 15:37:09 True SR71 humor: An SR71 pilot requested clearance to 60,000 feet of an air traffic controller (I forget where) and the controller, who had had less than a stellar day, asked in a snarky tone "How the heck do you intent to get up that high" The pilot replied "I am requesting clearance DOWN to 60,000."
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