View Full Version : Speed...........in a nutshell so to speak
CamelPilot
25th Jan 2002, 16:30
Found this site. A real tribute to man's quest for more and more speed. I suspect it is by no means over either!
<a href="http://www.soft.net.uk/speedrecordclub/outair.htm" target="_blank">http://www.soft.net.uk/speedrecordclub/outair.htm</a>
Back in the fifties, lived not far from Bill Bridgeman, the Douglas test pilot that reached M1.77 in the Douglas D558-2 SkyRocket...quite a guy. Many interesting stories to tell.
polzin
30th Jan 2002, 02:17
They need to update the world's fastest piston engine airplane. It was RARE BEAR at over 500 mph. Rare Bear was a Reno racer . A highly modified Bear Cat with a R3350 in it. 4200 HP of which 1500 was used for takeoff. Shelton was the owner and record setter. Anything to add 411A? 528 mph as I remember.
Think you're right polzin....last I heard anyway.
polzin
31st Jan 2002, 23:15
Met a guy once who knew more about the SR-71 than anyone else I know. He had a friend at the Skunk Works that told him that Aurora was much faster than had been speculated. Claimed Mach 11. That is eleven.!! If that sounds crazy, let me point out that the X-43 is advertised to reach Mach 10 in a test program which has just started. They lost the first one.
polzin
31st Jan 2002, 23:38
My memory isnt as bad as I thought!! Went to google.com and typed in Rare Bear. 528.3 mph on a closed course, Time to climb , 3000 meters...91.9 seconds set clear back in 1972.!!!!!
If you have never been to the Reno Air Races, how can you say you have led a full life?
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