I was there to witness the land speed record and the sonic boom in 1997. It was more of a thud than a boom. I was proud to witness that happen in my beloved Nevada! Love the Black Rock of past.
Not to many people witnessed that I watched three of the apollo rockets at cape Canaveral we were across the bay it shook the ground it was incredible I'm gonna to the Bonneville salts flats next year
Expert here, I want to debunk all the misinformation in this video: 0:46 - Poor start, I expect the top 10 fastest LSR vehicles to be in order, this car doesn't even count in the top 10. Also wrong photo I believe. 3:36 - Wrong footage, showing bluebird K7 and not CN7. 4:09 - More K7 footage 4:17 - Boloo? 4:27 - Showing Wingfoot Express 2 and not 1. Wingfoot Express 2 never set the record 4:34 - Talking about Tom Green while showing Craig Breedlove 4:47 - Showing Spirit Of America and not Wingfoot Express 5:15 - Repeat of information 5:25 - The way he says this information, very well the car may have gone from 3 to 4 wheels in design, however the Wingfoot Express 1 was 4 wheeled and the Wingfoot Express 2 was 3 wheeled as the pictures show 5:37 - Showing old footage which debatably isn't green monster, at least the one that took the records 5:50 - Showing Wingfoot express 2 which never set the record 5:51 - Together the brothers actually held the record 4 times between 1964 - 65 6:18 - Pretty sure the engine had a 2 stage afterburner not 4 stage 6:23 - Repeated 6:52 - Not even wrong, just really rude, seriously? Craigh Breedlove? 7:04 - Showing SOA Original not Sonic 1 7:13 - "Final Sonic 1 configuration in Sonic 1" ? 7:20 -Showing SOA Sonic Arrow not Sonic 1 7:39 - Not the first and it had 4 wheels 7:41 - "Jett" 7:52 - Wrong engine picture 8:14 - Wrong footage, also he did not set a record at that speed, he simply crashed at that speed 8:18 - "Formula Shell LSRV" is another name for Sonic Arrow 8:37 - Horsepower was closer to 35,000 8:47 - Hate to say it but the record was held for just under 13 years 9:26 - Gabe e lick 9:30 - I might be wrong but I think the peak speed was closer to 630mph, at least over the kilometer 10:29 - Repeated 11:22 - Wrong footage 11:58 - Repeated 12:23 - Repeated 12:25 - The F4 aircraft apparently uses the J79, not Spey 202 Top 10 actually goes: 1. Thrust SSC - Driver: Andy Green 2. Thrust 2 - Driver: Richard Noble 3. Blue Flame - Driver: Gary Gabelich 4. SOA Sonic 1 - Driver: Craig Breedlove 5. Green Monster - Driver: Art Arfons 6. SOA Original - Driver: Craig Breedlove 7. Wingfoot Express 1 - Driver: Tom Green 8. Bluebird CN7 - Driver: Donald Campbell 9. Railton Mobil Special - Driver: John Cobb 10. Thunderbolt - Driver: George Eyston Informative notes: - Bloodhound LSR has yet to set any record and has not gone 1000mph, only 628 - The Budweiser Rocket is not on this list as it never set a LSR and stop saying it broke the sound barrier, it didn't
Not to mention lacking audio sound of individual passes. At least from the 60s and afterwards. Wide World of Sports had Breedloves record runs on the show. But i sure would have liked to have heard the audio of the sound barrier cracking
@@wesleyhitchcock4414 Audio is tricky. The amazing on-board camera footage of Breedlove’s runaway at 500 mph and crash into lake is amazing. He never got to Mach 1. The Brits sure did with on-board sound - you see the shockwave passing down the car and hear a howl as it punches through. Another vid is from a ground camera with a guy hearing a WHOOMP! and turns to look… quite casual. At sea I heard the Concorde overhead, bang,BANG!!! And fighters low over the North Sea. It is a wooming sound, no crack. Wide World of Sports, neat stuff.
@@michaelemory552 back before SAC moved out of Wright Patt in the late 60s we would hear the barrier being broken from high altitude flights. I have had the privelidge of being in the WO seat of a fanthom breaking the barrier on many occasions but you hear nothing but com chatter between you and the pilot. But i was corious from a ground point of observation what is heard when the barrier is broken at ground level which requires more speed as opposed to aircraft at say 30k, 40k, 50k and so on which requires less forward speed due to less air density. I was wondering if tge sound is louder than what i remember as a child and young teenager in Ohio in the late 60s
Just to let you know: ❤ The Blue Flame is on display at the "Technikmuseum Sinsheim" in Germany. They call it "a hybrid between car and rocket", and it is in perfect condition. I assume the museum is also the owner. Should you ever visit Germany, the Technikmuseum is worth a visit, being the only museum worldwide displaying both supersonic commercial aircrafts, ❤ Concorde and its Soviet rival, ❤ Tupolev TU-144 just to mention two more highlights. Great collection of US vintage cars too Thomas from Germany
Kind of a mixed up wad of information. Pictures were mixes of Craig Breedlove's, the Arfons Brothers', and Richard Noble's with mixes and repetitions of audio information to the point that someone who hadn't followed LSR attempts over the years would be quite confused.
These days with full authority digital active suspension and aero you could probably go astoundingly fast. True of an adaptation to water speed as well. Of course we also now have controls to test them extensively without wetware in the cockpit.
The problem isn't going fast. The hidden phenomenon is GPT or gyroscopic precession torque of the front wheels. Breedlove discovered this as documented Craig's biography by Samuel Hawley (page 248).
A completely unprofessional production where the vehicles shown do not always match the LSR timeline and the details have been poorly researched. It should be withdrawn to preserve integrity if there's any justice!
You purposely left out the Budweiser river car. The rocket car reached 731.9 mph. Just because the speed was unofficial. And because Stan Barret is openly a Jesus follower doesn’t mean that this rocket car and the speed run didn’t exist. And just because people hated Stan Barrets open stand for Jesus doesn’t change that it happened. If you don’t want to include this car, than do not include the Blue flame car. The Blue flame record was removed from the record book because like the Budweiser car, it was a rocket car.
Nothing like showing the Spirit of America when talking about the Green Monster. And never really mentioned it even though it held the record. And the amount of repeated text is ridiculous. Someone needs to learn to proofread and edit. This video is of questionable value.
Budweiser Rocket car should have been at least #2 since it was the first car to break the speed of sound in 1979. It only took the Thrust SSC 18 years to do it again with a little more speed.
The chances that the Budweiser Rocket actually even got trans sonic, let alone supersonic, are slim to none. No sonic boom, VERY questionable measurements, and quite simply the math just doesn't add up. Too much drag, not enough power, and the run took too long. Sure, they went quick, and Barrett had balls like basket balls, but supersonic? Nah.
Wow. I am sitting here looking at the shrine I built to Crag Breedlove as an American Hero only to see video of him overdubbed as Walt Arfon's. I have nothing but mad respect for not only the Arfons Brothers, but any and all LSR Vehicles, racers and teams. But for the sake of those of us who know better, do a little bit of research. Please. This is our world history you are messing up. And to quote John Belushi "Bluto: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"
It wasn't an official record because... It did not have 4 wheels - so had considerably less drag. Its recorded speed was a peak speed in one direction only instead of an average speed of two runs taken over a measured mile, the return run taken within an hour of the first. Oh, and the speed had to be measured with proper ground based timing gear not a radar guess from a plane. The rules state that all 4 wheels must remain on the ground - there's footage of the BR effectively "wheelbarrowing" with both rear wheel off the ground. (So close to a complete wipeout) Other than that - a good effort but no cigar.......
@@maheshperera171 Er..., read a little bit further. 628 mph. Bloodhound had a very successful test program getting it up over numerous runs to 628 mph. That's only 5mph short of Thrust 2 record which stood for 14 years. And this was without the additional rocket fitted.
Bloodhound has done bugger all so far as they've run out of money, it certainly hasn't done 1000 mph. about 628 mph from memory just with the jet before they pulled the plug.