"Part of my bias is because I think that there are
more difficult technical problems to solve with
traction-drive vehicles than there are with pure
thrust-drive."
I would consider breaking the sound barrier on land a
most technically challenging problem. Especially since
no one had done it before (excluding the Bud rocket
car. That sound barrier "record" is still somewhat
questionable).
Russ, I also agree that wheel driven records are what
counts most.
John Goodman
--- Russel Mack <rtmack@concentric.net> wrote:
> Arne:
> it all depends on your perspective. I mean, REALLY.
>
> To THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, Andy Green's record is
> probably the only one that
> seems significant.
>
> To those who actually race landspeed, there may
> REALLY (whether any one else
> believes it or not) be other records that are
> personally more interesting.
>
> For me personally, the most significant records are
> (in order)...
>
> 1. Unlimited wheel-driven (Vesco)
> 2. Unlimited positive-displacement engine (White)
> 3. Unlimited wheel-driven MC (Campos)
> 4. Unlimited "sit-on" MC (Noonan still, I think--??)
> 5. The record in my competition class (because
> that's where I focus my
> effort)
> 6. Unlimited landspeed (Green)
>
> Part of my bias is because I think that there are
> more difficult technical
> problems to solve with traction-drive vehicles than
> there are with pure
> thrust-drive. (I will grant you that I think it
> required the most bravery
> to do what Andy Green did.)
>
> I'm being as honest about these preferences as I
> know how to be. And I
> suspect that a significant fraction of the list will
> feel similarly, at
> least about the first two or three (perhaps juggled
> some).
>
> I think that anyone who is doing this sport in hopes
> of impressing the
> (non-lsr) public is wasting his/her effort. The
> public cares very little
> about what we do. Realistically, we're here to
> satisfy our own goals, and
> maybe to impress some of the people who have
> impressed us-- that is, the
> other members of this small group of lsr racers.
> Russ, #1226B
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