The glassy surface of the Bonneville Salt Flats has attracted drivers from all over the world, …
Tell me you’ve never been on the salt flats without saying you’ve never been on the salt flats.
Can you explain what you mean here to someone who had never heard of salt flats before?
When a lightly salty body of water evaporates over time in the right way and on the right terrain, the result is a very flat layer of salt. But the surface isn’t anything like glass. It does occasionally rain there. It’s a kind of sticky slush of tiny moist rocks.
Bonneville is large enough, thick enough, and flat enough to run extremely fast straight line machines on. Flat, like a geometric plane. There’s lots of things made of glass that are curved; glass is known for its smoothness.
Salt flats are flat, and not necessarily smooth. Glass is smooth, and not necessarily flat.
Assumed they were referring to the glassy mirage effect you see in hot places.
TIL ;)
It looks like glass 🤦🏽
At least he went quickly.
Did he at least get the record for fastest land crash?
Oh my no.
I don’t know if this one is the fastest either: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessi_Combs
I think most airplane crashes set that record
Fair. Those often end in land crashes.
But they also end at zero miles per hour.
Which also tells us that 0 mph is an unsafe speed.
Land speed record broke him :(
2 miles into the run and they were going 283 mph?
Surely that’s mere seconds, if that?
At 283 it takes 25 seconds to go 2 miles. So I think it’s pretty safe to assume it took around a minute since it does take time to get to that speed but I assume it gets over 100 in under 10 seconds considering that’s not super difficult for a sports car to achieve
4.72 miles per minute
25 seconds to go two miles
These vehicles are extremely high geared (numerically “low”) to reach those insane speeds. They need lots of power and vehicles to push them off the starting line and even then it takes time to get up to that speed. Dragsters get up to speed quickly but only run 1/8th or 1/4 mile. These cars would be on the opposite end of that spectrum.
I don’t know how to do the correct math for acceleration, but I can see that at that top speed 2 miles is ~25.4 seconds, so that’s the minimum. So intuitively I’d guess around 1 minute
Just watched The World’s Fastest Indian (2005) good movie about setting the fastes land speed record.
Is the article correct stating that he drove 459MPH last year but died at 283MPH while trying to break a record? I’m wondering if they meant 459KPH.
Did he try to drive straight through a mountain?
Hopefully at least it was an open casket type of accident?
