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Kinda surprised no one has mentioned a sprint car . Maybe they are just too brutal Dusty
and the gear (only a paved strip there at the time), no thanks. to scary.But...
That said, I've had some really good times in the Pitts S1S that Ed the Rocket Scientist (RIP) and I built.
Since we are dreaming, make the track be the Isle of Man, but I want it cleared of all pedestrians, wandering cows, gravel in roadway, and the like. Mike lapped it at 109.97 mph. I'm not Mike the Bike, so my more modest goal would be to simply break 100 mph.
How about a SR71 blasting all the coffee cups off Fidel’s table with sonic booms under the leadership of president Reagon. Or laying trails of sonic booms up and down North Korea when Kim was hosting some event. nothing they could do about it. The Air Force kept strict constraints on the pilots but Uncle Ronnie knew how to use it.
Good one. I heard a story of an SR71 flaming out over Chicago and it was dead sticked to Edwards. True? Don't know. But was told by someone that should know who just briefed on it at the time.
FWIWUntrue...m
"pocketa-pocketa-pocketa"Something I've often heard in my mind when dreaming of a new caper...when I was a kid.The ultimate day dreamer. Air races '33 in a Grandville Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster.:-)
I dunno about that. As I understand the history of the GeeBee racer, every one that the Granville brothers built crashed and killed its pilot. At the Bradley Air Museum, there were plans to build a replica but constructed of mild steel tubing so that it could never get a certificate of airworthiness, and be flown. Don't know if the project ever went forward.Larry
Luckily, Doolittle didn’t plan to go slow, not with “Granny’s Built-In Tail Wind” behind him. Six times he roared through the speed trap, this time claiming a maximum of 309.040 mph and averaging a world-record 296.287 mph. “I could have shoved the ship up to five miles an hour faster,” he claimed afterward, “but I didn’t let it out to the full extent. It was made for Russell Boardman, who has his heart set on making the world’s record, and he can give the ship all it’s got after he recovers from his accident.”
To show you how rapidly aviation has matured, I've met Jimmy Doolittle.
Sorry John I got interrupted before I could explain.The SR has two engines and in pilot jargon "dead stick" means that both engines failed which in that case the aircraft would come down very quickly and most likely have had to make an off airport landing. This would result in loss of the aircraft and the pilot if he remained with the machine to impact. High wing loaded aircraft have very high landing speeds so survival in that case would have been in question(hence ejection seats).The SR pilots would, if they lost both engines, most likely try and pick open ground and then eject probably not under 5,000 feet (above the ground.)I don't believe there was ever a double engine flame out in the history of the SR 71 ops. They did lose one due to an engine failure while at mach III and the aircraft turned sideways and disintegrated over ID I think. The back seat guy was killed but the pilot survived as he was thrown clear.This event cause a change in the engine management system and never was repeated.If they had lost only one engine over ORD the aircraft would have been able to continue at a slower speed and it would have most likely landed at the nearest military base along its flight path.:-)
