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06-28-2023, 03:47 AM | #1 |
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OT: old film of record attempt in the Outback
Donald Campbell attempted to set a world a land speed record on Lake Eyre in 1964, but got washed out.
Apparently, Bonneville salt flats were too short for him and too lumpy or something. A film about the local preparation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cruT46lzPr8 However, it worked on the second go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqvpcX4HoCg A few cartoons at the time. https://primotipo.files.wordpress.co...11/image11.jpg https://primotipo.files.wordpress.co...11/image16.jpg The late Jeff Carter was the official photographer and took this classic shot. https://primotipo.files.wordpress.co...11/image12.jpg |
06-28-2023, 06:24 AM | #2 |
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Re: OT: old film of record attempt in the Outback
I've only watched the first one so far. Those subtitles are hilarious!
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Re: OT: old film of record attempt in the Outback
Very good,
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Re: OT: old film of record attempt in the Outback
Great footage, especially the first video (film). Thanks.
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Re: OT: old film of record attempt in the Outback
Thanks for sharing the films.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiXsI0Ol7Vk&t=300s I like the way the locals fired into the air to scare the ducks. A couple of years later he died in it in the UK. Australian Ken Warby has held the water speed record for 45 years because everyone else who has attempted to break it has died trying. |
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Re: OT: old film of record attempt in the Outback
I think it is pretty cool how that boat lifts out of the water. The calculations have to spot on or it would lift too far and flip and we've all seen what happens then.
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Re: OT: old film of record attempt in the Outback
I had a land speed record book as a lad. Arranged consecutively it had one page per LSR record holder with color drawings. The last section was several pages long covering the Proteus Bluebird which had not yet run! It had a fold-out drawing and if I remember correctly, a cutaway drawing as well. That car was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, looking like a jet fighter fuselage on wheels. The one thing missing from the artwork was a person to show scale. Now that I’ve seen the video I realize those tires were what, 4 or 5 feet in diameter! And the tail fin ended way off the ground. Much bigger scale than I’d imagined.
By the way if you are a vintage LSR fan, there is a wonderful collection of the old monster cars at the National Motoring Museum at Beaulieu (inexplicably pronounced “Bewly”) located in an estate once owned by Lord Montagu. It’s in Hampshire, outside London. I visited it in 1980 while vacationing in London. Lacking a car, I took the Underground to a bus which was styled like a 1950’s American car with huge chrome spears running down the sides. The bus dropped us off by the side of a lake. The final leg of the journey was by an narrow gauge (like from a garden or amusement park) electric “train” thingie with a big electric motor poking out of the wooden coachwork. Looked like it was out of Thomas Edison’s notebook. The fellow operating the trolley (train? tram?) was on the other side of the lake, sitting in a little wooden hut. If I remember correctly there was some electric doorbell setup to signal when it was about to leave. I don’t know if Health and Safety (Britain’s OSHA) has shut it down. I hope not.
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