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    Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale

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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    Needs some stars and stripes painted. Although that name on the air intake is as American and as awesome you can get.

    RIP Steve Fossett.
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    I'd rather just put wings back on it and start my own air force.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    Most land-speed racers have a kind of cobbled-together look, but this thing actually looks like a "normal" vehicle, like a small corporate jet or something.

    On a side note: what's the LSR for a driven-wheel vehicle?

    Personally, I prefer that engineering challenge to a jet with the wings clipped and flipped.
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    Image of DruDown DruDown
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    So the "Spirit of America" is being sold in England... Those bastards have taken our spirit and are going to auction it off to the highest bidder.. that just isn't right at all. I say no Auction without representation.
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    dwegmull welcomes all the ghosts promoted this comment DruDown was starred DruDown was unstarred
    Image of Mobius Mobius
    08/25/09

    @DruDown: But you are all English!

    :)
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    But does it have forged pistons and aux-in?
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    Image of Rock517 Rock517
    08/25/09

    @Skunky: AND a USB port.
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    Image of gravit8 : just not cool enough for...jalopnik? gravit8 : just not cool enough for...jalopnik?
    08/25/09

    @Rock517: Bluetooth. gotta have bluetooth. For that price (err, not lited but guessing) it should have forward-sompatability with the next, I dunno, 200 generations of ipod.
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    Mobius promoted this comment gravit8 : just not cool enough for...jalopnik? was starred gravit8 : just not cool enough for...jalopnik? was unstarred
    Image of skitter skitter
    08/25/09

    @Skunky: And find out the 'ring time while you're at it.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    08/25/09

    @gravit8: And from that exterior, the interior looks like it's gonna be luxurious, too.

    Corinthian leather?
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    Image of vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    That'd make one helluva pizza delivery car.
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    Image of token_illiterate_commenter token_illiterate_commenter
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    "675 MPH crash" So you're saying that this has a salvage title.
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    skitter promoted this comment token_illiterate_commenter was starred token_illiterate_commenter was unstarred
    Image of skitter skitter
    08/25/09

    @token_illiterate_commenter: There's a classic video of Breedlove taking out a telephone pole at 400mph back in the day.
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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    I thought Rowan Atkinson proved that three-wheeled cars were inherently unstable.
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    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale

    and there's always the North American Eagle project...
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    Image of Tucker589 is Hoarding James Dean's 550 Spyder Tucker589 is Hoarding James Dean's 550 Spyder
    08/25/09

    @Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness: That thing's gonna go airborne. I mean, look at the front, there's nothing there to create any downforce whatsover to keep it from taking off into the air. I do love how batshit crazy it is, but I don't think it's a serious competitor.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    08/25/09

    @Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness: Isn't that just an F-104 with the wings removed? Considering the F-104 was basically a missile, it should do break some records!
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    Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness promoted this comment engineerd was starred engineerd was unstarred
    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    08/25/09

    @engineerd:
    On the nose... all the info on it is here:
    [www.landspeed.com]

    They've added canards to the nose to help combat the lift... I think they've gotten it up to 400 plus so far.
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    Image of gravit8 : just not cool enough for...jalopnik? gravit8 : just not cool enough for...jalopnik?
    08/25/09

    @Tucker589 is Really Cool: two little canard winglets on the front are all you need so long as there's no lift generated elsewhere on the body. And, there isnt.

    Really, what kind of half-a55ed engineering do you think some guy would trust his life to at 700mph?
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    08/25/09

    @Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness: That's freaking awesome. The F-104 is still one of my all-time favorite aircraft. They've managed to make it a ground-craft, too! Cars and planes, all it's missing is a hot chick!
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    Edited by engineerd at 08/25/09 7:32 PM engineerd was starred engineerd was unstarred
    Image of Skink Skink
    08/25/09

    @gravit8: Winglets are vertical sails that go on the end of wings to effectively increase the length of the wing and improve efficiency by essentially increasing wingspan, aspect ratio, yada yada. Canards are not winglets. They're just canards.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    I don't suppose it's less than $250k and can do the qm under ten. I know someone who's looking.

    Edit: Escape character fail.
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    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    GE J-79... this thing is a single engined F-4 phantom without wings....
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    Image of LBJ's Love Child LBJ's Love Child
    08/25/09

    @Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness:

    F-104 Starfighter, IIRC.
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    Image of Brobo3 Brobo3
    08/25/09

    @LBJ's Love Child: You remembered correctly sir.
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    FlakJack promoted this comment Brobo3 was starred Brobo3 was unstarred
    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    08/25/09

    @LBJ's Love Child:
    F4 used J-79's... just 2 of them.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale

    Hopefully I get to see this launch tonight at 0110. After working here at KSC all summer, the Thrust SSC might just be what I need.
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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    08/25/09

    @engineerd: That guy is pointed the wrong way. Mars is UP, stupid!
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    Image of Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    It was Originally going to be sponsored by both Aston Martin and Mini and would have been called the D.B. Cooper..............What, to soon?
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    Sloop_John_B promoted this comment Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it was starred Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it was unstarred
    Image of engineerd engineerd
    08/25/09

    @Bentoboxx, Now part owner of General Motors: That was funny.
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    skaycog-live,love,drink! promoted this comment engineerd was starred engineerd was unstarred
    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    If the price was right, something like this could really cut down on my commuting time.
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    Image of JeepyJayhawk JeepyJayhawk
    08/25/09

    @Flathead Smith: to what .5 seconds for a 30 mile commute?

    And you'd still get stuck behind a Prius in the mythical fast lane.
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    Image of .357 .357
    08/25/09

    In reply to Steve Fossett's Record-Breaking Jet Car Up For Sale
    Still not as fast as Sonic the Hedgehog.
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    skaycog-live,love,drink! promoted this comment Edited by .357 at 08/25/09 3:18 PM .357 was starred .357 was unstarred
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