Warbird Information Exchange

Plans are afoot for the 1000 mile per hour car!!! It is by the current land speed record holders, so a serious possibility! Wow
Read more about it here http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/

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If the first casualty of war is innocence, the second is sobriety - Hawkeye.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato.
Lies get halfway round the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on - Churchill
If you are going through he11 - keep going - Churchill

I'll let you drive!!!!

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Once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards... for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo daVinci

Only if I can close my eyes the whole way!!!

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If the first casualty of war is innocence, the second is sobriety - Hawkeye.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato.
Lies get halfway round the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on - Churchill
If you are going through he11 - keep going - Churchill

DEAL!

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Once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards... for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo daVinci

Boy, that sounds pretty safe. What could go wrong? Are they seeking investors? Where do I sign up?

Does anybody know how long the race surface at Bonneville is, how far do they have to accelerate and then stop?

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

From the website :- A minimum of 10 miles continuous unobstructed smooth surface, plus over-run areas, and a usable track width of over 1 mile to provide a good safety margin.

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If the first casualty of war is innocence, the second is sobriety - Hawkeye.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato.
Lies get halfway round the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on - Churchill
If you are going through he11 - keep going - Churchill

Whatever happened to the F-104 car?

http://www.landspeed.com/

The quote from the Noble team is interesting:

"Back in 2007 Andy Green and I found ourselves in front of Paul Drayson, Minister for Defence Equipment and Support. With the late Steve Fossett planning an 800 mph attempt on the ThrustSSC record, now was the time to plan ahead. Paul made it quite clear that there was a great opportunity not to be missed. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) - indeed, the entire country - was short of engineers, and he believed that the way forward was to generate a new iconic project which would inspire the school population - he even defined the age range: 5-19.

He related this to the great British aerospace achievements of the past: Concorde, the Vulcan, the Lightning, the Fairey Delta 2, even the Schneider Trophy racers - and made the point that in those times there was seldom a shortage of engineers. Once the Government had turned off the inspiration tap, school leavers started to look elsewhere for their careers."

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James K

"Switch on the underwater landing lights"
Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

www.VintageAeroWriter.com

Well, I guess there is enough room. But frankly, for me no jet airplane without wings running on the ground is ever gonna be as cool as the cycle and the old guy in "THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN".

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK