The lack of protection in the cockpit is a scary thought.. i dont think this vehichle would have passed safety inspection at bonneville or any land speed record event
When you know enough to think your right, but not enough to know your wrong... On a shoestring budget is not the way to approach a project like this. One dead, everyone else morally crippled for life.
@@billmiller7138 The days of the good ol' boys are over in this field. Running a car at fighting jet speeds isn't a back-yard project. Just look at the expertise and resources behind the Bloodhound project, and even they haven't got it done yet.
The North American Eagle was a death trap. No roll cage, no driver protection, just a former aircraft fuselage that was modified. Go look at any other land speed car and look at the driver compartment and look how much steel is used.
Sad to watch this after her passing. I can only imagine what the team is feeling, not to mention family and friends. RIP Jessi (From a fellow racer at heart)
Oh the arrogance. Right at the start, 0:17 - 0.25. Well, Bloodhound just finished their first actual test session yesterday with 628mph on their 11th high speed trial and 32nd run total, three weeks after rolling out of the trailer, even though they are missing the second engine. The Brits are advancing methodically, they are prepared, the vehicle is well designed, and the track is cleaned obsessively.
Exactly!!!! I never had a good feeling for the design of that vehicle. I always thought that it wasn't safe , the wheels were too small for the size of it rip Jessie 😢
@@johnalarcon5006 Richard Noble said he felt the NAE project was dangerous, you don't listen to someone who has held the record and project managed the building of LSR cars, Art Arfons said in "the fastest men on earth" book that the record was now unobtainable for people working from their garage. People with experience commented and no one listened, jessie sadly paid the price.
@@lewisb85 Exactly, only because they dont have the funding that those big firms have , those big firms have the money to access everything aerospace wind tunnel testing ect.... my brother in law used to work for " wroar" if i spelled it correctly a aerospace division of the BF Goodrich company , he did metal exact testing he use to test metals fatigue at different temperatures and pressures
@@lewisb85 besides the wingless aircraft that she wes driving had way too small wheels , im not an aerospace engineer but im thinking that had something to do with her death. Im sorry she died either way 😔
@@johnalarcon5006 Yeah Noble said about the small wheels he said about them digging into sand when running in the desert. Classic example of not listening to someone who knows better than you.
I guess speed records will never be safe, but this kind of kitchen-table approach just wasn't up to the challenge and Jessi Combs paid the price. They were trying to run a car faster than the world record for a military jet at low altitude - maybe just too much for a group of good old boys. The UK Bloodhound project is far more sophisticated - involving bleeding-edge university departments and high-tech companies. Now it's properly funded they had a problem-free test in South Africa, hitting their target of 600 mph in just a few days with only one of the two engines installed. Provided the data matches their models, they should be attempting the record in 2020, with a good chance of topping 1000 mph safely.
Never mind Bloodhound, take a look at the painstaking way Thrust SSC was designed, wind tunnel & rocket sled tested. The forces involved in transonic & supersonic speeds on land are immense and aircraft don't have the ground interfering with airflow. A tragic end to this project which involved a lot of well-meaning talented people but it always seemed to me to be unrealistic and foolhardy. For example, little thought seemed to have put into driver protection. The F-104's primary pilot safety device was its ejection seat - not a practical idea in a car prone to enormous ground forces never mind if it tumbles in an accident.
Keith zanghi,, when we worked together at Boeing in the 90's at Auburn I enjoyed your stories of speed and your quest to own the the world speed record,, I am now 79 years of age and still believe in you and your team efforts,, just wanted you to know I have not given up on you,,I drive a 430 HP mustang daily and when I get on it and the earth is passing by very rapid I think of your North American Eagle with delight,,live long and go fast my friend
So... did ANYONE on this team research this jet before picking it? The F-104 is a jet commonly called the "Lawn Dart", "Aluminum Death Tube", "Flying Coffin", "Widowmaker" and "Ground Nail". It has killed HUNDREDS of pilots worldwide due to ACCIDENTS. It is one of the worst designs of the early supersonic jetfighter era. It suffers from a flaw known as Inertia Coupling. The horizontal stabilizer that was installed on the tail of the Jet was used to counter-act this. This team totally ripped the horizontal stabilizer off! So there was nothing to counteract this force as the speed increased. Violent Yawing and Pitching was predictable and inevitable. This engineering team killed Jessi Combs with their negligence. They need to be sued into oblivion.
In the Hoonigan interview of Jesse filmed two years ago, she mentioned losing steering control. Do you think this is related? I agree with you about the engineering team. I'm expecting all of the details of this incident to be hidden from public view until the lawyers are finished fighting many years from now.
So true . . . the "Widowmaker". Beautiful jet but dangerous. Don't most land-speed cars have lower stance and ground effects for stabilizing? It seemed very unsafe for what they were trying. What about a roll cage and enclosed solid pilot canopy.
TNSEE completely overblown and untrue this “killed hundreds of pilots”. Actually it’s performance in USAF was quite good. If pilots were well trained they had no problem with the aircraft, it is enough to look at statistical data after 2300+ sorties flown in combat in Vietnam. I doubt her estate has any chance “suing” anybody, this is inherently risky business to move 400+ mph on land, it’s “use at your own risk” type of business.
TNSEE perhaps they were lacking in flight instruction and/or airmanship. There are more and less challenging aircraft to handle, as an example Mitsubishi Mu-2 was also called all sort of names as being a bad design but when FAA looked at them closer - it was given a clean bill of health. F-104 was an awesome design for its time with a very good operational record in Berlin crisis and Vietnam war.
he hesitated when he said it, and you could see him thinking 'well it didn't, but it kinda did' and a quick image of ford's assembly line was all he could recall.
Ted Smith The very first road vehicle propelled by an engine ( in this case a steam engine ) is french . In 1770 , Nicolas Joseph Cugnot made a demonstration of his " Fardier " : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Joseph_Cugnot . & here on RU-vid : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XsEbeCrPcA8.html
AS A TEAM THIS ENTIRE FAMILY.... LOST 1 OF THEIR OWN,,JESSI, what a lady she inspired more youth,Men & women than we"ll EVER know. What a class act, her enthusiam and competetive desire will live forever . my deepest reguards to her friends and family.
Under the Northwest Now tab at kbtc.org is a page called "Special Projects." I have posted an update to this program there. It includes cuts from an interview with Jessi that never aired. I really enjoyed getting to know the NAE team in 2016, and I've stayed in touch since - point being, I can comment directly that they are a great group of people. There are a lot of broken hearts about how this effort ended.
respectfully very sorry for the loss of a great wonderful person Jessi, secondly sorry to all her friends family and loved ones who were close to her, and sorry for the opportunity to obtain the world record with all of your crews hard effort over two decades of blood, sweat, and tears..GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU
@22.04 he said about not destroying a perfectly good aeroplane ... he did not refer to it as a car but a plane despite it being a land speed record..... Very sad that Jesse lost her life.
The problem? To save money, they used the fuselage of a F-104 Starfighter. You'd think they'd realize, using a fuselage so old would be a bad idea. Jessi Combs died in the crash.
I always hoped something like instability during high speed testing would convince Ed to give it up. Alas, it took the too-high cost of Jessi Comb's young life to put an end to the project. I really think that now that the record to beat is Mach 1.1, eyeball-designed LSRs should be a thing of the past. Look at Thrust SSC. Finite element analysis, rocket sled testing, wind tunnel testing... on one run at over 600mph, the suspension collapsed, and all Andy Green said was "Oh, dear," and he brought the car safely to rest, upright and otherwise undamaged. It was designed to be safe and stable, even when Andy entered the measured mile after a pounding sonic boom, a huge bow wave evident in the track, and Andy with his hands crossed on the steering wheel, Twice.
I logged in to let you know that you sound like kind of a bitch. But RIP Jessi you will be missed, and you are a badass and this is what the land speed record is all about. you fuckin' did it.
Andy Green had dictated that the rear suspension be locked at the highest setting, instead of being under software control. He found out on that run why the rear suspension was dynamic, happily without killing himself. After that he gained some trust in the software engineer who had told him it was dangerous and might get him killed. But yes, the British team engineered their car from scratch. Which is why their driver is alive to brag about it.
YOU ARE 1000% spot on, the British ThrustSSC had the smartest aeronautical and F1 engineers on the planet with forensic levels of scientific development plus piloted by an RAF ace. Compare this to the hubris North American boomer death trap powered by incompetence and hubris using a cold war relic fighter jet fuselage. WHY would any sane rational person think this hunk of junk with boomer tech development will beat the SSC?!? its no surprise it tragically killed its pilot looking at this documentary and the criminal level incompetence shown in its development. This is almost EXACTLY the same pattern shown as with the ocean gate tragedy: hubris baby Boomer thinks hes smarter than everyone else and develops his own 'superior' contraption..
I don't know if I can believe that info about this F104 being the golden chase aircraft for such legendary projects. No way the US would just toss it out in the gutter like that even if it was wrecked. Maybe it was an early fuselage at best. None the less, still a nice barn find.
@@iamjackalope This aircraft, knowing the history, should have been restored and put in the Smithsonian alongside the record breakers it flew chase for. As a car, the only article I found that included an account of the accident, suggested that the breaking system did not work as intended and the car left the lake bed, impacting some terrain. Must have been horrible, knowing that you just can't stop and that wall is coming up awful fast...
Tater Chip has Jessi been removed from the project? I would have thought that she would be a really great candidate to drive the record runs. Why would they they remove her from the project? That seems a bit mean after setting her own women's record. Has she joined an aerial acrobatic group called Angels of Speed? I also hope she flies well with the team. I didn't know she was a pilot. I join your sentiments, godspeed Jess, and fly safe. It's probably safer than driving at supersonic speeds on land, if I'm honest. But good luck Ed Shadle and everyone else at the North American Eagle team. Time is running out, because now Aussie invader 5r is built, and the the British LSR project has a new owner, they have less time than ever to set the new record.
Robert Quesada do you mean she suffers with 'm e' ? That can be a really debilitating condition. I didn't know no that was the reason she was removed from the project. If that's the case, then that's really sad. That family have gone through hell in recent years, financially, losing Ed, and now Jesse suffering with illness, you wonder when they are ever going to get a break. Jeez.
I would think it is quite premature to talk about "fruits of victory" before nothing has really even been close to the record of the Thrust SSC or Thrust 2 (which can both be seen in the transport museum right in the center of the city of Coventry, UK). Maybe the best approach here for the gentlemen of this age is to leave the trash talk and wishful thinking completely to themselves and try to be humble. +770mph on land is extremely serious business and I'm sure the gentlemen here know about their current competition as well.
I am surprised at the dollar amount he has in it. I thought it would be a lot more with fuel. Perhaps it is but I was guessing about 4 million. Fuel and everything. Keith Kuhn
I think he was referring to how much of his own money he personally had in it. They were actively recruiting sponsorships and donations so the total is likely much more than 250K.
If you think about death, you'll never get out of bed in the morning. I'm 58, I still ride high power sport bikes. I could die every time I ride them. I just don't give it a seconds thought. Wear the proper safety gear every time, and go enjoy it. That's life! I love F-104's, btw. Have since I was a little boy. Always fascinated with it's appearance, the T-tail, the little teeny anhedral wings. Just an awesome airplane.
Its a pity this project never fulfilled the dreams behind it. We can only hope that someday their dreams will be met. Excellent mini documentary. In England we usually only have ‘Men in Sheds’ to inspire us, I guess in the US you have ‘Millionaires in Hangers’
And what, design something that is aerodynamically similar to a fighter jet fuselage? Did you see a wind tunnel in that guys shop? He has been working on the thing for over 2 decades. Where's his advanced autocad program with cray super computers to render the designs? You can't possibly be this ignorant....
God bless Jessi such a awesome woman who touched the lives of so many. I still remember the first time I saw her on extreme 4x4 back when I was in trade school myself i think every car enthusiast fell in love with her at first sight. Looking at this all now in hindsight the pursuit of setting a 800 mph plus land speed record utilizing a 1960s war plane and a budget of 250,000$ to try and beat a purpose built twin engine jet car that had a budget of over 3 million to build seems a bit foolish to me now. I get the temptation of the massive bragging rights of pulling it off as a underdog I’m sure every racer can relate to that but this seems like it was a recipe for disaster from day one.
Interesting, but I doubt it will challenge for the record with those rubber tyres on. I assume they have a plan for the wheels....? Oh, also, automobiles didn't originate in America, but in Germany. Daimler-Benz produced what is widely recognised as the first internal-combustion powered automobile.
14:21 "This is where the automobile started". Really? I'm happy that it's helping my American cousins with their STEM education because it's not doing much for their historical knowledge. Good luck with the record, because when someone manages to take the forty year old record from the British, they may just finish the 1000 mph car that they've been sitting on for over a decade. It's not worth risking a life for a record that no one seems capable of taking from you.
Very interesting story and a tremendous long term Engineering challenge...I tip my hat gentlemen. Sad to hear Jessi died in the last run. Has anyone heard any details of what happened? I can't find any video of the crash run here on youtube, nor any telemetry accounts of the run anywhere online. I do question whether or not it was prudent to have Jessi behind the wheel of an 18,000 lbf of thrust jet car with her limited experience for anything but modest run speeds, but would of course like to see the data before commenting further (a Ph.D. Engineer who works for a large American defense contractor aerospace company.
I believe she had gone over 400 mph in a previous run. There was a problem so she could not back it up with another run in the allotted time. You must make 2 runs and you get the average speed of both runs to make a record. Loved her. She will be missed.
WTF!!! WHERE THE HELL WAS THE ROLL CAGE??? CANT BELIEVE THERE WAS NONE FITTED...SERIOUSLY!! BUDGET BUILDING?? NEXT TIME...MIGHT WANT TO GET SOME ADVICE FROM THE PROFESSIONALS AND EXPERTS WITH REAL EXPERIENCE LIKE THE GUYS RUNNING THE AUSSIE INVADER...TAKE NOTE FROM THEM IN HOW LSRs ARE DONE PROFESSIONALLY AND SAFELY.
I'm just just American, I'm a Texan. And I even know the automobile didn't start here. Maybe the first mass produced, but not the start. Mercedes and Benz was the first real automobile. And if I remember correctly that was 1896.
cant agree more... I am here shaking my head as to why she got into that car .... it was such a hunk of shit. Saw it personally a couple of times (out at El Mirage dry lake bed) and remember thinking to myself that I would never get in that thing and go fast. Obviously she knew more about the car than any outside watcher.... but that car was not built like anything Craig Breedlove or Richard Noble drove. It was an actual Starfighter fuselage modified to have axles and wheels. Not a machine DESIGNED and BUILT to go the speed of sound on land. Jessi will be missed.
This seemed like a stupid record to risk one's life to break. If the car is solid/roadworthy enough to be piloted by a woman with slower reaction times, then it should be safe up to close to the speed of sound. I hold the designers/managers responsible for her death.
@@Melvinnn11 some of us live for the chance and not for only the number of days we have. your life can be taken at any moment. Live don't just exist... she will be remember, no disrespect like you have stated but you will never even be known.
@jaydee040 - There's a reason they didn't drive a complete F-104 down the lake bed is the learjet limo still a learjet in your mind? geekologie.com/2018/08/sure-why-not-a-limo-made-from-the-fusela.php
By the time this thing actually goes .. and possibly gets up to where thrust ssc got to ... Bloodhound will show up and put them back in the workshop for another 20 years. They are so far behind the technology of the Thrust team they wont ever catch up.
@@dalepierce23 - True. Their website is just a single page featuring the briefest of tributes, and Wikipedia says ‘the future of the project is unclear’.
Feel just sick about the loss of this larger then life wonderful women. R.I.P Jessi ! Best of the Best ! You are loved by so many. And my heart bleeds for her family and her loved ones.
Jet-car racing now needs to move to wheeled open-water speed-racing. At high speed , V-shaped wheels will run on water , yet cut through any incident waves . Racing-hydrofoil escape-capsules will greatly increase the safety factor for the jet-car drivers . *In-depth examination of this proposal is available in Quora thread : Should we allow wheeled jet-car racing on open water ?
I for one would love to try for 1000 plus on land. Trying and accomplishing it would be a great day for us all knowing that you were able to get there would make all the heartbreak and hard work so sweet
If either of you paid any attention to the sport, instead of being posers, you would know that Jesse died in the American Eagle after setting the women's world record last year. There is no more Eagle.
4:55 Ed says they paid $3,000 to truck if from Maine to Washington which is about 3,000 miles. The cost of operating a car is about 60 cents per mile. How can a Class 8 truck operate at $1.00 per mile?
You know it’s strange that I just got through watching a video on the Australian’s are making one ☝️ that is going a 1000 miles an hour. Then I go to the next video and here we are. Dang y’all might have to up y’all’s game soon.
The USA has not held the Land Speed Record for many years now. But we were the first to take a car to the moon and actually filmed guys driving the thing. We hold the Moon LSR there! And we put a little car on Mars as well. No human driver but when it happens it will probably be us. Kidding aside I commend the British for smashing and keeping the LSR here on Earth. Well done Brits.
old guy has a dream but is too scared to drive it himself . and he called the British idiots . then the project goes for a publicity stunt of the fastest women on earth . she died . putting wheels on an F104 isnt too smart .
Ed Shadle was the driving force behind the North American Eagle and he drove it on many occasions. His plan was to set a new land speed record with the car, then be the first to exceed 1000mph. He died of cancer before he could fulfill that dream. Jessi was there to break women's records and carried on in his absence. A tragic ending all the way around.
Jessi never broke any land speed record. She went faster then kitty oneal did in the smi motivator. At no time did the NAE ever break the absolute land speed record. Also remember that jessi had nothing to do with the building of the North American Eagle.
It isn't pushing shit. Its not even on wheels yet and the whole "jet engine and "hybrid" rocket engine" thing is going to make it a perpetual project and that's just how they want it. They're stalling and waiting and figuring these "old geezers" with the F-104 will retire or die off or go to the nursing home one of these says and the "SSC Bloodhound" will be off the hook. Because it turns out that according to the rules the THRUSTSSC supposedly "set the new world record" under are only the "official rules" according to some "world motorsports organization" that didn't exist in 1997 or hadn't come out with a RULE by then since no one had evern CLAIMED the "world land speed record" for an air-breathing" car. So they did. And then all the people they'd thought they'd fooled because they were silent on the whole deal started talking. And they pointed out some "problems" with the so-called "official record" which apparently was done "by the book" despite their being now "book" FOR "Black Rock Desert". They were implying by the BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS BOOK, which requires a backup pass within 1% of the record in the opposite direction within one hour. Well, they made their allagedly "legit" backup pass supposedly within that hour. But there was one problem. The car wasn't IMPOUNDED per the "Bonneville book". By the Bonneville book, the car goes to impound and can't be touched by anyone on the team and when the impound is over, which is when the team says "we need to start getting ready" which means "we're ready to start it up and go", they can LOOK THE VEHICLE OVER and CHECK FLUIDS but they can't ALTER THE VEHICLE OR MAKE ADJUSTMENTS OF ANY KIND. That includes REFUELING the vehicle. It can't be done. Mainly because the backup pass has to be no slower than 1% of the first pass but it also can't be more than a certain percentage FASTER and THAT depends on wind conditions for the FIRST PASS vs. the SECOND PASS. And you can't ADD FUEL because no one has any idea how much you ran with the first time and you might have ran almost empty to set a high 1st pass and then weigh it down with a full load of COOL FUEL to MAKE MORE POWER on the 2nd pass to make sure to back it up by not dropping too low but the extra weight will protect you on the TOP SIDE. They added fuel mainly because they HAD TO FOR APPEARANCES. I saw that because they claim that thing burns 5 gallons of fuel PER SECOND. Well, it would have to burn at least 300-400 gallons during startup, warmup, the run and shutdown and the vehicle has to be RUNNING WHEN THE OFFICIALS REACH It because its IMPOUNDED AGAIN pending any CHALLENGES. That car can't possibly hold more than 500 gallons of fuel and its all but impossible it would have enough fuel for even ONE RUN and if it did by the end it would be sucking HOT FUEL AND FUMES and it wouldn't run for SHIT. But by Bonneville rules they couldn't refuel it anyway. Someone pointed that out. Thats' when they decided to change "rulebooks". Especially since a ROCKET CAR ran by BUDWEISER WENT 700+ way back when and THAT GUY stepped up and said THEIR RECORD WAS A FAKE BECAUSE THEY REFUELED. They countered that HIS record was fake because he didn't BACK IT UP. Well, its impossible to "back up" a record set by a solid-fueled rocket engine that burns itself out on the first pass and he never claimed "Bonneville rules. He just said "I went supersonic at 7XX mph..." in such and such year. Then they called in help from Europe and this brand-new, meaningless "world motorsports organization" or some shit came out in 2014 and said by THEIR RULES the car had to have at least FOUR WHEELS and blah blah blah. Only problem is the ThrustSSC has only THREE WHEELS. Oops. \ Ultimately it all doesn't mean ANYTHING since there IS NO WORLD LAND SPEED RECORD if ALL of their "interpretations" are used since they never set the first one, Thrust2's claimed "634.xx" record didn't count because it wasn't backed up and that leaves a 3-wheeled rocket car as the last BONNEVILLE BY THE BOOK RECORD HOLDER Gary Gabelich with 630.XX in 1970. Of course the plan after the big 2014 "oops" was to keep the ThrustSSC hidden away in a private collection where no one would see its THREE WHEELS, let sleeping dogs lie by not responding to a few comments about the refueling deal and draw attention away from the ThrustSSC altogether and its clearly questionable ability to even complete a FULL LEGAL PASS at any speed by coming up with the NEXT BIG THING to "flush Google" of all the "controversial" ThrustSCC stuff by announcing a NEW RECORD ATTEMPT and a NEW CAR and a 1000+ MPH GOAL. And they had no intention of really doing it and came up with that out of desperation, didn't think they'd ever get enough funding to even have to FAKE IT and if they DID they'd SNEAK THE THRUST SSC out of "retirement", make some "minor modifications" like slipping in the two new Eurofighter Typhoon engines they "happened to find" so they could MAKE A FULL PASS ON INTERNAL FUEL, doing a sneakly little "add a wheel" modification on the rear end by just having a little "training wheel" poking down by the existing single rear wheel so it would meet the "letter of the law" and oh by the way that was ALWAYS THERE but we just didn't have it EXTENDED in 1997 (the 4-wheel rule didn't say they all had to touch the ground) and they only were doing that because they couldn't claim the STEERING WHEEL since it has a "yoke". And of course since every "record attempt" they've succesfully achieved has had TEAM MEMBERS doing EVERYTHING from "officiating" to working on the car to "tech inspections" to handling the PR and PRESS and they have all the "data", they were just going to go run in some OTHER obscure location with hand-picked "press corp", claim they were "testing" and "working their way up" when I'll BE DAMNED THE CAR JUST GOT AWAY FROM HIM AND WENT 1000+ mph. Basically they were going to replace all the OLD BIG LIES with a BRAND NEW AND MUCH BIGGER LIE that would settle the issue ONCE AND FOR ALL. And why? Because they've taken assloads of money from anyone and everyone who offered and got all kind of "grants" and "loans" and "donations" of public funds and such and FREE SHIT FROM ALL OVER INCLUDING ALL KINDS OF SUPER-EXPENSIVE MILITARY HARDWARE LIKE THOSE EUROFIGHTER ENGINES and even their BUDDIES are starting to get worried about things like "Criminal conspiracy" and the like since they've been so STUPID about the whole thing and have lied and lied and lied about NOTHING THAT EVER MATTERED. But when they came out with the initial "new car going 1000+ mph" shit, that's when these American Eagle guys stood up and said "We want a shot at your 1997 record first". Because its the DRIVER and not the CAR that is the actual RECORD HOLDER, so when Andy Green was the "Chosen driver" for this NEW CAR, any "new record" set wouldn't BE a "new record". It would be him resetting his OLD record. And who knows. These American Eagle guys might be giant frauds TOO and decoys for the media so they can go do THEIR fake shit in peace. But the bottom line is they're pretty much fucked no matter what if they take a DIME now that everything is out there and there would be a clear intent to defraud even by mentioning the OTHER supposed RECORDS that their DRIVER SUPPOSEDLY HOLDS. But he's locked in now too because nobody in their right mind is going to walk in and take over his job as HEAD LIAR. What a tangled web we weave....
DEEREMEYER1 That must be the biggest load of shit I've ever read. Thrust SSC was run to FIA specifications with measured and video data showing the breaking of the sound barrier. And what the hell do you mean by saying that Thrust SSC was hidden away in a private collection? Thrust SSC is on display in a VERY public museum in conventry, I've seen it and touched it.
DEEREMEYER1: what a cretinous troll. ThrustSSC is the current record holder, it use two Spey 205s for 50,000 pounds of thrust. Bloodhound is complete and operational, they have run the jet and the rocket. I guess you are a Trump supporting flat earther. You should report back to the funny farm where they can give you the help you need.
The Wiki page claims 110,000 hp and at 763mph it's more like 101,000. The thing with jet engines and horsepower is that the faster you go the higher power they develop, even if the thrust is constant. ThrustSSC was running two Spey 205s at 50,000 pounds thrust, total. At 763mph she was doing 67144 feet per minute. A horsepower is 33,000 pounds feet / minute so 67,144 x 50,000 / 33,000 = 101,733 hp. They thought she could go 800, but at 763 they were just about maxed out. Horsepower is not a good way to measure jet engine performance, at rest you aren't moving, so even if you are generating 25 short tuns of thrust you aren't achieving anything, so no horsepower.
A great informative video well put together. It’s a shame that America doesn’t support these guys ,I feel they will break a record even for a little time, but perhaps it will attract serious sponsors to invest and ultimately reignite the America dream.
Too many speed record chasers end up dead for most governments to support them. "I gave a million dollars to a guy who killed himself with it" just isn't a great campaign slogan!
Chopping the wings of a mass-produced plane is a cost-efficient way to get a jet-car. But the backward-swept wings was the things keeping the body facing straight into the oncoming air. Without them, the body needed more development for stability. They even persisted with the original tail. Dear God...
@@skunkbucket9408 They have to swept back more than a certain degree to be classified, as such? (but yeah, I reckon the F-104's wings were not swept back extreme enough to make the needed difference to this car's stability, anyway)
I think those people that buit that thing and maintained it ought to be held responsible with respect to the law...shame to the people for doing such a shitty job
Con esa mentalidad derrotista, la humanidad no hubiese llegado hasta aquí! Lo que es estúpido es por ejemplo matarse por conducir borracho o drogado, pero lo que ese equipo estaba intentando era empujar un poco más allá los límites del conocimiento y habilidad humanas, y eso supone asumir riesgos para el beneficio y la inspiración de todos. Condolencias y tristeza por la pérdida de Jessi Combs! :,-(
“They’re in that computer world” 😳 “They bring their parents and neighbors up here..” The bloodhound - they were pros and they couldn’t even pull this off.
There are hands on, learn by doing people. And there are brainiac nerds. The latter perceive all sorts of conceptual problems and potential contingencies and would never embark on this sort of project. The former would, of course. But they will inherently be ignorant of what they don't know. And wont know it until they experience it hands on. The people behind this project and the unfortunate lady who perished are squarely in the "hands on" category. (The S, in the Myers-Briggs personality term). It's funny how thw S's don't like the N's, and the N's always envy the S's. But N's also know or will figure out what the S's don't know and can see those catastrophes from a decade away.
Very, very, very cool. Especially for us fans of the F104 Starfighter and all the pilots that flew it like Chuch Yeager and company. I just wonder how these guys get their funding!
Needless to say that some actual engineers said long time ago that using an airplane hull for transonic/supersonic land speed record attempts is a fundamentally bad idea.
I have been watching this car for years . For some reason it does not ever get raced. They're running out of time . Is a shame . To put this much effort into something that never will be use
not sure why they don't use rockets...seems like the next logical step. Rocket engines would get them there much faster I think. Couple solid booster rockets strapped together over a million horsepower, what's not to like?
What this project needs is a brace of big JATO bottles attached. And one or more radical reduction of air resistance technologies.....which are available.....the thing with the British is that there is a very powerful history of rich Playboy's and the business community heavily sponsoring land speed record attempts.
@Chuck Barnes if they didnt include a 3-axis inertial feedback system (fibre optic gyros and accelerometers + fast response kalman filters), with some pretty high response rate airfoil trimmers then any turbulence and unexpected ground effects especially as they probably have never been modelled or simulated them in an airflow chamber (wind tunnel) would suddenly result in uncontrollable motions. If the wheels broke up that's another matter. Depends how good their telemetry and vibration/ positional monitoring systems were for post-accident analysis but I expect that was an expense/complexity too far for them. A human in the feedback loop instead of some FBWire system is not good, reaction times are poor - it's equivalent to flying a fighter jet at 1 mtr off the ground at mach 1.5 isnt it??? Not good and a sad loss for a brave lady. I wonder if they had an operational ejector seat/canopy in it that may well have saved her at any speed.
@Chuck Barnes same as that going through Donald Campbells mind when Bluebird took off and killed him, "oh shit" - the designers and idiots who made that car "over 20 years" are culpable in the death of a nice brave lady who trusted their overtures and lies. No human can control a mass in three orthoganol planes (X.Y.Z) moving over terrain at the speeds they wanted, it didnt seem a very heavy car either it simply looked like, as others have noted, a retired jet fuselage with a few wheels sticking out of the side. Compare that to other types of land speed record cars!. It's just the American (sorry guys Im a Brit) "good ole boys" syndrome in action over design and money. I note that there is no video of the accident.
@Militant Hatred one of anyway, the states is by far NOT one of the best, no health care for the people, murders daily, low wages, military reliant economy, nutters in the white house, and it's getting worse, police killing the people they are meant to protect, only the most desperate people in need want to migrate there. very low morals and a superiority complex...the good old USA has died :-(
