Bonneville S Women Of Land Speed Racing

Author : “LandSpeed” Louise Ann Noeth
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467107136

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Bonneville's Women of Land Speed Racing by “LandSpeed” Louise Ann Noeth Pdf

At Bonneville, record holders must first earn the right to present themselves on the starting line. This requires passing rigorous safety and technical checks for driver, rider, and speed machine. Gender is inconsequential. Through the years, more than 200 women have made the cut and donned fireproof clothing and helmets. Dozens have set land speed records--35 in excess of 200 miles per hour, six above 300 miles per hour, and one deaf female racer who roared past 500 miles per hour. Equally impressive are the women who helped propel the helmeted gals into glory. Few know how many women are skilled fabricators, mechanics, crew chiefs, and all-round land speed racing experts, all working out on a brutal, merciless, and barren sodium-soaked playa. And for decades dedicated volunteers have not only put down that all-important starting line but erected a speed village that inspired tens of thousands to visit, taunting the timing lights run after run. Since 1949, women have played an integral part. Without question, land speed racing has more women actively participating and setting records than any other segment of motorsports in the world.

Author : Noeth
Publisher : Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1540248445

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Bonneville's Women of Land Speed Racing by Noeth Pdf

At Bonneville, record holders must first earn the right to present themselves on the starting line. This requires passing rigorous safety and technical checks for driver, rider, and speed machine. Gender is inconsequential. Through the years, more than 200 women have made the cut and donned fireproof clothing and helmets. Dozens have set land speed records--35 in excess of 200 miles per hour, six above 300 miles per hour, and one deaf female racer who roared past 500 miles per hour. Equally impressive are the women who helped propel the helmeted gals into glory. Few know how many women are skilled fabricators, mechanics, crew chiefs, and all-round land speed racing experts, all working out on a brutal, merciless, and barren sodium-soaked playa. And for decades dedicated volunteers have not only put down that all-important starting line but erected a speed village that inspired tens of thousands to visit, taunting the timing lights run after run. Since 1949, women have played an integral part. Without question, land speed racing has more women actively participating and setting records than any other segment of motorsports in the world.

Author : "Landspeed" Louise Ann Noeth
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781439671573

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Bonneville Salt Flats by "Landspeed" Louise Ann Noeth Pdf

Astronaut John Glenn used Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats as a landmark from space, but on Earth, amateur motorsports devotees have used the blistering hot, flat land as a speed laboratory for more than a century. On August 22, 1949, the hot rodders joined the pageant of power with their handcrafted cars, trucks, and motorcycles for a one-time event but never stopped coming back, trying to go faster every run down the multi-mile course. All came looking for the answer to the same question: "How fast will it go?" Those efforts have made them the fastest people on the planet, reaching speeds in excess of 500 miles per hour. On the salt, people find the limits of their courage, learn what daring greatly is all about, and realize why a Bonneville Salt Flats speed record is an internationally respected pedigree. People who race on the salt flats become a family bound together by speed--a powerful force that erases ethnic, economic, political, and religious barriers. They are land speed racers. And this is their story.

Author : David Fetherston,Ron Main
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990921409

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Bonneville by David Fetherston,Ron Main Pdf

The pictorial history of 100 years of land speed racing on the Bonneville salt flats.

Author : Samuel Hawley
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770880078

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Speed Duel by Samuel Hawley Pdf

The quest for the land speed record in the 1960s and the epic rivalry between two dynamic American drivers, Art Arfons and Craig Breedlove. "Interesting and complex. . . .The best job I've seen done on the subject so far." -- Craig Breedlove Until the 1950s, the land speed record (LSR) was held by a series of European gentlemen racers such as British driver John Cobb, who hit 394 miles per hour in 1947. That record held for more than a decade, until the car culture swept the U.S. Hot-rodders and drag racers built and souped up racers using car engines, piston aircraft engines and, eventually, jet engines. For this determined and dedicated group, the LSR was no longer an honor to be held by rich aristocrats with industrial backing -- it was brought stateside. In the summer of 1960, the contest moved into overdrive, with eight men contending for the record on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. Some men died in horrific crashes, others prudently retired, and by mid-decade only two men were left driving: Art Arfons and Craig Breedlove. By 1965, Arfons and Breedlove had walked away from some of the most spectacular wipeouts in motor sport history and pushed the record up to 400, then 500, then 600 miles per hour. Speed Duel is the fast-paced history of their rivalry. Despite the abundant heart-stopping action, Speed Duel is foremost a human drama. Says author Samuel Hawley, "It is a quintessential American tale in the tradition of The Right Stuff, except that it is not about extraordinary men doing great things in a huge government program. It's about ordinary men doing extraordinary things in their back yards."

Author : David Fetherston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0964617587

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Bonneville by David Fetherston Pdf

The pictorial history of 100 years of land speed racing on the Bonneville salt flats.

Author : Louise Ann Noeth
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0760313725

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Bonneville by Louise Ann Noeth Pdf

Describes the history and tradition of the Bonneville salt flats and the speed records that have made history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4907354258

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bonneville by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rocky Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Motorcycle racing
ISBN : 1610609298

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Flat Out by Rocky Robinson Pdf

The story of how Robinson broke one of the toughest records in the world, the motorcycle land speed record, and faced his greatest challenge at his greatest moment of triumph.

Author : Alexandra Lier
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 3868286136

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The World's Fastest Place by Alexandra Lier Pdf

Nowhere else have so many land speed records been set as at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Each year, devoted gearheads and adrenaline junkies from around the world gather to add their names to the hall of fame with their hot rods, roadsters, motorcycles and belly tankers. Here the record chasers, the drivers and their beautiful vehicales are shown up close and personal as they have never been seen before.

Author : Rachel Kushner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439142011

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The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner Pdf

Arriving in New York to pursue a creative career in the raucous 1970s art scene, Reno joins a group of dreamers and raconteurs before falling in love with the estranged son of an Italian motorcycle scion and succumbing to a radical social movement in 1977 Italy. By the National Book Award-nominated author of Telex from Cuba.

Author : Erik Arneson
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780760340158

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Mickey Thompson by Erik Arneson Pdf

On March 16, 1988, motorsport legend Mickey Thompson and his second wife, Trudy, were gunned down by hooded assassins in the driveway of their Bradbury, California, home. This shocking and brutal double-murder brought an abrupt end to one of the most extraordinary careers in the history of motorsports, a career that has never been completely profiled—until now. Author Erik Arneson delves into the life and career of one of racing’s greatest innovators and most successful businessmen, while also chronicling the story of his tragic murder and his family’s relentless quest to bring his killer to justice. This is a fascinating account of an amazing life that ended too soon.

Author : Jim Lindsay
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Bildungsromans
ISBN : 1494356732

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The Little Bastards by Jim Lindsay Pdf

Sonny Mitchell and his friends are blue collar boys who are bursting out of the restraints of tame suburban life. They yearn for action, fast cars, and something more. A bond forms between members of his club as they progress from bicycles to hot rods, and take on experiences of white-knuckle street racing, beer guzzling...and girls. But as these kids approach adulthood, a dark edge jeopardizes lives as some take these new exhilarations too far. It will be up to Sonny to stop a tragedy that could destroy the girl he loves and alter the course of his life forever.

Author : Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0393078361

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The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles by Melissa Holbrook Pierson Pdf

"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring."—The New Yorker In a book that is "a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle" (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid, writerly prose the mysterious attractions of motorcycling. She sifts through myth and hyperbole: misrepresentations about danger, about the type of people who ride and why they do so. The Perfect Vehicle is not a mere recitation of facts, nor is it a polemic or apologia. Its vivid historical accounts-the beginnings of the machine, the often hidden tradition of women who ride, the tale of the defiant ones who taunt death on the racetrack-are intertwined with Pierson's own story, which, in itself, shows that although you may think you know what kind of person rides a motorcycle, you probably don't.

Author : Samuel Hawley,Craig Breedlove
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781641600231

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Ultimate Speed by Samuel Hawley,Craig Breedlove Pdf

An L.A. hot rodder with a high school education, a family to support and almost no money, Craig Breedlove set out in the late 1950s to do something big: harness the thrust of a jet in a car. With a growing obsession that would cost him his marriage, he started building in his dad's garage. The car's name: Spirit of America. Through perseverance and endless hard work, Craig completed Spirit and broke the land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats, setting a new mark of 407 mph in 1963. In the early 1970s he turned to rockets and set an acceleration record at Bonneville that stands to this day. He built a jet car in the 1990s, Spirit of America–Sonic Arrow, to go head-to-head against Britain's ThrustSSC to be the first to Mach One. Craig's subsequent crash at 675 mph remains the fastest in history. Even today, at the age of 80, he is going strong with plans for yet another Spirit of America racer. The ultimate goal: 1,000 mph. Ultimate Speed is the authorized biography of Craig Breedlove, a candid revelation of one of motorsports' most interesting figures based primarily on countless hours of interviews with Craig and dozens of people connected to his life.