I think I read somewhere that THRUST 2 was just a couple miles per hour off of becoming airborne when he broke the record. Ya got to give it to these Brave, Brave creators of going for all the marbles Everytime they got in them things. Personally, I think the SPEED DEMON is the most beautiful LSR car ever built. And it sure has the right driver with George Poteet. What a Legend.

They don't make documentaries like this anymore... thanks a million for the upload. The narration was fantastic as well!

1,014.656 km/h (630.388 mi/h) kilometer absolute world land speed record by The Blue Flame in 1970 - not broken until 1997. The slower mile record reported here was exceeded by Richard Noble in 1983. If you want to see the first over 1,000 km/ watch SPEEDQUEST - THE BLUE FLAME!

Great film, thankfully devoid of all the fluff and cruft that is appended to this type of film making these days...

Great documentary, cheers for sharing!!

I watched this doc series on NZ tv in the 90s excellent footage fascinating to watch thanks for posting,much appreciated Auckland New Zealand 2021

Thank you, very interesting and well done.

Craig Breedlove comes acorss as such an educated guy!

FYI That John Force bit in the beginning is the calmest he's ever been. EVER. lol

Thanks very much for putting these great videos up.

This is a oart of a series, I will have to get it transferred to dvd

For several months I have been searching for this documentary. I'm an ex-pat living in Italy and somewhere back home I have an old VHS copy but no telling where and what it's condition would be...thank you so much for sharing this in it's beautiful form!!

This was awesome

The Salt Flats feature so many unusual/unique vehicles, its worth going just to see so many iterations of the "car." Speed is akin to the breath of life and at least as addictive. lol I had opportunity to get a ride in a F-16, back when I was in the military, working as an air traffic controller. A Navy Lt. Colonel gave me that ride after I talked a student pilot into a safe landing, whose instructor had had a heart attack and died during that morning's training flight and the conditions had turned from VFR to IFR. Big time thrill when the pilot of the F-16 hit his after-burners on an unrestricted climb maneuver. Unforgettable, that kind of speed. And we never did break the sound barrier. Darn! That has been a dream of mine since a young boy in the early 60s.

27.35......that was absolutely flying..... Awesome speed.

A lot of loose shots there: when implying Craig Breedlove went into the brine ditch on his first record, it was his third, after Tom Green in _Wingfoot Express,_ at 413mph, beat his first, and then Art Arfons in _Green Monster_ upped this to 434mph. Breedlove then took the record back at 468mph, but it was when breaking his own record at 528mph when he had the accident. And he broke 500mph first in his original car, not _Sonic-1._ Then they freely mix up Malcolm Campbell's cars.

SENNA😇

They should have put two Sidewinders on the Budweiser car..why?...why not.

Car supersonic

they talk of side winders and rockets and then the brits turn up and say shopping trolly with a hair drier

Try 200 miles an hour on the motorcycle

Timothy

Britain's most winningest Female Racer is Drag racer Sylvia Hauser .Infact Sylvia is Britain's winningest Drag Racer .Pat Moss Britain's most famous Female racer came no where near Sylvia,s Championship wins . Likewise Shirley Muldowney has the most American Drag Racing Championships .

Donald Campbell was killed by his old man tbh

Disneyland doesn't have anything that scary

As an American, I am kind of irritated that those darn Brits have seemingly dominated the land speed record.