Re: Primetime series

Mark <mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1189828043.446462.184820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

On Sep 14, 5:57 pm, John McCoy <igop...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It might be because the TV folk occasionally refer to land speed
record attempt(*) in the context of something that happened a long
time ago, and without being clear that it was Stanton's father
who was involved.

(* the attempt was only marginally less farcial than Evel Kneivel's
jump over the Snake River canyon; if I was either Barrett I'd
hope it had been forgotten)

John

Well Stans record wasn't recognized for a number of reasons IIRC. It
wasn't through a measured mile.

Correct.

The car only had 3 wheels maybe.

As I recall, it had 4, so that wasn't an issue.

It
wasn't done in both directions

Correct - to be recognized as a record a run has to be made in
both directions, within one hour.

and timing and the speed was computed
by a radar.

Actually, the timing and speed was done completely by guesswork.
The intention was to use radar, but it gave a speed of 38mph,
having apparently tracked some other vehicle.

Stan did get the car through the sound barrier,

Virtually no-one beleives this. It's pretty unlikely he got much
over mach 0.9, even for an instant.

John

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