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MEMBERS DISCUSSION AREA => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cleveland99 on August 28, 2019, 10:08:20 AM
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https://www.ktvz.com/news/fatal-crash-ends-alvord-desert-land-speed-record-attempt/1114031117
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https://www.ktvz.com/news/fatal-crash-ends-alvord-desert-land-speed-record-attempt/1114031117
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That sucks
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Damn - I enjoyed her on xtreme4x4. RIP
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https://jalopnik.com/fastest-woman-on-four-wheels-jessi-combs-killed-in-jet-1837654356
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Man I really liked her to.....
She passed doing one of the things she loved. RIP Jessi
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Sad day boys. She was the shit. Queen of the Hammers RIP.
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Sad day for sure. She was the real deal.
RIP
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Ahh fuck... this really sucks...
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She was the hottest fabricator on Extreme 4x4!!!
I also think she was the brains of the two.
RIP Jesse
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Never knew who she was but it's a sad loss for all of us.
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at least she went doing what she loved.
I dare say it is not likely I expire in anything even remotely as manly
as attempting to crush my own landspeed record in a jetrocket on a saltflat.
She was super important & influenced many young ladies to realizre that it's cool to fab & race w/ the boys.
God Speed, Jesse.
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yeah, 450-500mph is a pretty rare velocity to roll across the ground at.
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yeah, 450-500mph is a pretty rare velocity to roll across the ground at.
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Even though she wasn't in the air, the incident is the same as a commercial airliner crashing!
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I posted this last night but then deleted it this morning because I wasn't sure if I was supposed to say anything. But it's ok.
I talked with a friend that is involved in off road racing and he's friends with Jessi and her family.
Jessi did make a complete run but, in order for it to be counted as a record, it has to be run twice. She was in her second run and just as she hit full speed the car came apart.
Her fiance (Terry) had posted that they did everything they could do to try and save her. Apparently, there wasn't anything to save. The car broke up into pieces and was spread over a mile long.
Both of her parents were out on the lakebed watching all of this take place as well. I can't even imagine losing a kid but, to watch it happen right in front of you would just be too much.
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Damn...
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yikes. I had not heard those details. that is pretty rough.
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Damn I didn't know she had to run twice. That's kinda crazy to put a machine to the test like that, then expect it to happen flawlessly twice... Theres no room for error at 485 mph. Just terrible. She was super tallented and a hero to many.
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Damn I didn't know she had to run twice. That's kinda crazy to put a machine to the test like that, then expect it to happen flawlessly twice... Theres no room for error at 485 mph. Just terrible. She was super tallented and a hero to many.
I think official speed attempts require 2 passes, one there and one back within a certain time frame. This keeps people from cherry picking somewhere with a slight decline and tailwind since the 2 runs are averaged together (from what I recall reading about another cars top speed claim)
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Damn I didn't know she had to run twice. That's kinda crazy to put a machine to the test like that, then expect it to happen flawlessly twice... Theres no room for error at 485 mph. Just terrible. She was super tallented and a hero to many.
I think official speed attempts require 2 passes, one there and one back within a certain time frame. This keeps people from cherry picking somewhere with a slight decline and tailwind since the 2 runs are averaged together (from what I recall reading about another cars top speed claim)
That makes sense.
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Damn I didn't know she had to run twice. That's kinda crazy to put a machine to the test like that, then expect it to happen flawlessly twice... Theres no room for error at 485 mph. Just terrible. She was super tallented and a hero to many.
I think official speed attempts require 2 passes, one there and one back within a certain time frame. This keeps people from cherry picking somewhere with a slight decline and tailwind since the 2 runs are averaged together (from what I recall reading about another cars top speed claim)
That makes sense.
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I think its makes no sense with the amount of risk involved.
If you attempt a Guinness World record do you have to do it twice & they take the average?
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Damn I didn't know she had to run twice. That's kinda crazy to put a machine to the test like that, then expect it to happen flawlessly twice... Theres no room for error at 485 mph. Just terrible. She was super tallented and a hero to many.
I think official speed attempts require 2 passes, one there and one back within a certain time frame. This keeps people from cherry picking somewhere with a slight decline and tailwind since the 2 runs are averaged together (from what I recall reading about another cars top speed claim)
That makes sense.
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I think its makes no sense with the amount of risk involved.
If you attempt a Guinness World record do you have to do it twice & they take the average?
LMGTFY(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190902/be5b43909c626678db1301235f7b9f22.jpg)
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I understand the rule but it doesn't make it right.
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I understand the rule but it doesn't make it right.
Actually, it kinda does make it right.
Everyone knows the rules. Everyone plays by the rules. When someone breaks a record, you know they did it right.
The fact that Jessi perished during the second run is an absolute tragedy. But I seriously doubt she made that first hot run and then bitched about the requirement to run it back.
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The rule definitely makes since and it makes the record ligitimate, I was just saying it's a lot to put that machine through when you're talking about speeds of almost 500 mph. I guess it's part of the game though. They built the car knowing it needed two passes.
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If this is real, she was hauling a$$!
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A mile in a little more than 7 seconds at 500 mph.
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Jessi Combs' fatal jet car crash caused by wheel failure, investigators say
An investigation into the death of land speed record-chaser Jessi Combs has determined that a mechanical failure led to her high-speed crash.
Combs was driving the jet-powered North American Eagle across Oregon’s Alvord Desert on Aug. 27 when the vehicle was seen losing control and bursting into flames.
The Harney County Sherriff’s said Monday that an examination of the wreckage has led investigators and Combs’ team to conclude that the front wheel of the vehicle suffered a failure, likely from striking an object on the dry lake bed at approximately 550 mph. The report added that Combs, 39, died from blunt force trauma to her head before the vehicle caught fire.
According to the team’s website, the vehicle’s forged aluminum wheels were designed to retain their integrity at speeds up to 900 mph.
The team has not commented on the report.
Combs was trying to break the women’s land speed record of 512 mph set at the same location by Kitty O’Neil in 1976. According to the team, prior to the accident, she completed the two runs in opposite directions at an average speed of 531.889 mph, which has been submitted to Guinness World Records for verification in her honor.
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"Combs’ team to conclude that the front wheel of the vehicle suffered a failure, likely from striking an object on the dry lake bed at approximately 550 mph."
So they're saying she hit a rock or something on the desert bed and that's what caused the wheel to fail? Obviously this sounds legit but it's crazy that there would be debris on the "runway". It's not like a pebble would cause this.
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Guinness World Records posthumously awards Jessi Combs land speed mark after fatal attempt
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/guinness-jessi-combs-world-land-speed-record
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Guinness World Records posthumously awards Jessi Combs land speed mark after fatal attempt
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/guinness-jessi-combs-world-land-speed-record
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Finally, some actual good news in this world.
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