How did you miss to say that the first car to reach 100km/h (la jamais contente "never satisfied") in the 19th century was actually electric. Why not use titanium wheels? And cherry on top, the prompter takes a lot off the passion from the subject. Sorry team, I love the channel and this seems a bit overlooked to be honest. This could be done in a several episode series

First ever land speed record recorded in 1989 huh? Misspeaking within 40seconds of the video starting, very hard to take you seriously. Also ironic you're trying to advertise speaking new languages.

He advertise speaking a new language? When and where please? @@zl6924

Why not start with translating your units first?

As a European I understand your comment but they focus on their viewers rather than being correct for the 95% rest of the world. Someday, for the sake of adopting English as a universal language, they might adopt the metric system the imperial system is based on.@@cxgamer9680

i guess we have to break a speed record now

And the first car was in 1885, with the patent being assigned in 1886, so that was incorrect too :/

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Oops....not opps! 😂

All the Taylor Swift fans appreciate the shoutout.

testing rn is telling us ferrari has the RB20

@@domi4307 carlos sainz really trying to show ferrari they messed up

@@domi4307 don't do that. Don't give them hope.

Wirh l as much else is wrong i wouldnt be surprised if most of that shit was wrong as well.

@@KarstRats I guess wrong is a way of life for you. :-D

the only

only small in terms of population, it's a huge country otherwise

Agreed. I ride dirt bikes, and the Aussies have absolutely become the kings of motocross and freestyle. Nobody compares. Ride in peace, Jayo!

Motorsport is the only sport theyre good at

Eric Bana's racing passion taught me a few things about the love for the sport.

what? 1989 land speed record in a chain driven plywood box? Technology was WAY past that in 1989. Typo?

@@MikeZ8709 Don’t gaslight me, bro.

@@mojoron I caught that too. :)

@@MikeZ8709 0:36 :listen carefully

The script writer and video editor are still cringing to this day, 20 years since the video was first uploaded.

What's that in Olympic swimming pools?🇬🇧

Skill issue

Your apartment needs an owner mod

when you talk normally . but in a very different league😅

I met Rosco as well many years ago and got to see the Mullaloo workshop. Ran into him accidentally at the local pizza shop and he shouted me a pizza. Mighty bloke!

Fellow mullaloo kid here! He bought the AI2 down to the local primary school during the Christmas fete, prior to his second attempt. I would have been 10 maybe!

Sounds like an assumed name doesn't it ?

if you got money and time, everyone would live for the thrill.

I think the fact that he’s still alive means that he lives for the engineering.

He reminds me of Ken Warby and the world water speed record. Sadly Ken passed away of natural causes last year having held the WWS record since 1978 that he set in a boat he designed himself and built in his backyard using a j34 jet engine he bought for scrap metal prices that a couple of guys from the RAAF got running for him. Everyone who has attempted to break his record has died. Watch the youtube video of his run as she dances on the planes. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNKfeZOWq5Pedqc.html Scary stuff!

the jet engine is used in the eurofighter, the eurofighter uses two of these.

@@SimonBauer7 The Eurofighter is built completely different. The pump it uses can't be used on the LSR, so they had to find something else. If it did work, they would've used it. No point in developing a new system. The point is that a single engine needs a 550 hp fuel pump, which is insane. Regardless of type or what it is used in.

the v8 fuel pump was for the rocket, not the jet engine if I remember correctly

A more interesting fact (if you can comprehend it) is the V8 engines intake air needed to be intercooled... *before* the supercharger. The air pressure beyond mach1 is enough that it would increase the intake temps enough to badly reduce performance, so it would be intercooled (likely air-to-water) then go through the supercharger as normal.

@@tomstech4390 That is pretty insane! Science becomes a lot weirder at those speeds.

It's just a reversed wing.

From what I understood from the Thrust SSC team when I watched the record-setting, it had (in addition to its ground-effects design) small retro-type rockets built into the body that would slam the car down on the ground if 'liftoff' was detected at any time. Interestingly, it also had interior baffles built into the frame that were designed to break up and 'shove along' the supersonic shock wave as it passed through the car on its supersonic run. As well, Squadron Leader Green mentioned to us (press & bystanders) that the turbulence/shaking approaching the trans-sonic zone was strong, but once through, It very much smoothed out, and was much easier to control. His tactic to handle this was to get to around 650 or so, then back off for a bit, then PUNCH through the zone. What guts - this is an activity for the few, not me. But it's entertaining as hell, and even inspirational. Finally, FTR, I found Mr. Green to be one of those rare individuals who was nothing but 100.000% positive that it would happen successfully and safely. Kinda reminded me of Dick Rutan (pilot of Voyager, 1st aircraft to circumnavigate Earth in ONE flight.) Thank God for these folks..;)

A quick relative description of the run: A late-model vehicle will, after a couple minutes or so of pedal-to-the metal acceleration, be going approximately 110 mph/175 kph or so; at that speed, a Formula One car will pass it like it's standing still, because it'll be doing roughly double that speed.. The F1 car at top speed will be passed by a commercial jetliner like IT is standing still, because the jet will be doing double the F1's top.. If the jetliner pilot were to fly low over the SSC run, and look down as he did so, he would see the car easily outstrip him. THAT is some monster speed ;) It can cover 200 + meters in a snap of the fingers! Next time you are driving down the freeway at 77mph/121 kph, count the seconds between regularly-spaced markers (electric/comm. utility poles, mile/distance markers, etc.), then divide that by 10 for a real-time comparison of speeds (top instantaneous SSC speed was reported to be 771 mph/~1200kph). Visually, acceleration from 0-300 mph/480 kph was gradual, to prevent any unforeseen object pick-up (and potential damage), but the acceleration from 300-600 to me was the visual definition of the word 'terrific' - at around 450 or so, it's speed is like nothing you've ever seen on Earth, and it is CONTINUING acceleration! Its ACCELERATION is accelerating! It is at this point that, again to me, its speed approaches the ungodly.. If one were to fire a rifle bullet in the same direction as the car as it entered the timing zone, the car would outrun the bullet! A snap of the fingers is covered distance longer than two football pitches, US or other. ALL THIS WITH REAR-WHEEL STEER!! I couldn't do it..;[] Unforgettable ;) P.S. A blind 'spectator' with us on a low hill overlooking the site took off his shoes & socks, then buried his hands & feet in the loose sand, dirt & gravel ther, & after the run, claimed he could feel the Shockwave through the ground. I find science ALL fascinating..

Indeed. In all the fuss about Thrust SSC, he forgot about Thrust 2...

Doing those speeds momentarily is a lot easier than measured mile in 2 directions within an hour. There are many challenges involved with sustaining supersonic speeds over a mile and the fast turn around to immediately do it all again.

No it did't, no speed was recorded because the external radar setup failed to lock on to the car during the run. It's all on video calculations done later say it could not have exceeded 620mph during the run same as how the SSC Tuatara was caught out a few years back after they claimed a run of 331Mph. Further to that mathematical calculations of the car & rocket engine done years later say it had a theatrical top speed of around 630Mph. Only Barrett himself claimed he went supersonic based on his own calculations of internal telemetry claiming 739.666 Mph. No possible way he could have achieved that speed & the video of the run clearly does not support it or shows the car even approaching let alone breaking the barrier. Barrett also refused to show his internal telemetry data or calculations to anyone.

@@ZuulGatekeeper Indeed, and there was no sonic boom! Shocked that this wasn't mentioned.

To break it down to basics , no boom no sound Barrier broken

@@ZuulGatekeeper - On point!!!!!!! Barret is a bullsh*t artist!!!!!

'cause being fast alwais needs slow thinking

Why do you care

@@quadrantalerror1121 Get a sense of humor, Karen.

Burger

@@SwedeSpeeder 😂😂😂❤️

In a straight line, on flat ground? Perhaps you should refrain from giving up your training wheels my friend...

no, we’re increasing the weight to slow the acceleration down, so that each of the 140 kg wheels. Can spin up in sync with the cars acceleration. it’s all explained in the book on Amazon. Rosco the fastest Aussie on earth.

Thanks, Damien, the book is on the way. 👍

@@aussieinvader5r Thank you.

No mention of Art Arfons either.

No he didn't, he literally mentions it at 8:30.

oopsie

It's France. Entirely believable. "Le monde, c'est nous."

@@feynthefallen I think you mean Parisians. And I don't know if it's better or worse than "we're the good guys" the US!

@@GuillaumeH84 Oh no. The Parisians are like "La France, c'est nous". And about the US, at least they have it right when they feel they don't need another language because everybody speaks theirs. I once saw an acetone can from a francophone country. It had two labels: "Acetone" for english and "Acètone" for french. Francophone Swiss people are the same. Trying to tell me they don't speak anything but french when I know for a _FACT_ that for decades each Swiss child has learned at least English AND a second one of the four official languages at school, three of which I speak to some degree or other. I don't know what it is about the french speaking people that makes them absolute snobs and a***holes about thinking everybody HAS to speak french.

@@feynthefallen My dear friend.....Acetone in French takes an accent aigu, not an accent grave on the e. At least make a proper correction since you don't like training wheels translation for anglophones stuck in their glory.

Dick Keller is a good friend of ours and of the project. He has described Aussie Invader 5R as the blue flame on steroids? 😂

Greetings from South Perth m8 :)

@@----.__ hello fellow West Australian