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Thrust-powered Land Speed information => Discussions on absolute land speed records => Topic started by: tallguy on June 04, 2015, 08:05:20 PM
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This car never accumulated a lot of fame and/or speed records,
as it crashed in 1962, soon after it was built, killing the driver,
Glenn Leasher.
I recently read several articles about this, and apparently some
of them misrepresented what actually happened.
No, I don't have any new or different information on this.
One article mentioned film of the event itself. I'm trying to find
a video of this, and have run out of ideas. Can anyone help
point me in the right direction?
RIP, Glenn.
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Romeo, who built the car, left LSR after this tragedy. He set-up shop in Chicago on Western Avenue where I got to know rather well. He never spoe of the car.
The film may very well be the one at the Universoty of Utah's Marriott Library. Bewtween they and the Utah State Historical Society ther are many primary piece of research and photos. horrible photos too.
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Guess you've checked the Sam Hawley blog - scroll down to the Infinity section for a few article links. One from Vic Elischer mentions film is his possession. Short clips of the crash have been included in a couple of commercially available LSR documentaries but mine are on VHS and consigned to "storage" long ago. One day I will copy to my digital storage library but I suspect Nelson will get his eye back before I get around to that.
Robin
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Just seen this post of Glenn
This is from the two old "Stude Dude" brothers. My dad now passed was a friend of Glenn Leasher racing back in the old Vaca Valley Drag Strip days. The man had great talent in driving jet powered cars I think the salt flat Jet car Infinity was a great project for its time. The issue was I feel the lack of aero technology data and not doing enough low speed runs. I know if he stayed with drag racing running jets he would still be with us today. They just pushed it to hard to quick a tragic loss of one great person that most don't remember today
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Salt Shaker
You have surmised the precise reason Mr. Leasher dies in the Infinity jet: too much too fast.
Jets, rockets and even turbines require a respectable "get to know you" process perios. Glenn had no patience and paid the price for it; he is one of the first but sadly, not the last. A pity to as the man and car had so much more to do.
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R.I.P.
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Here are the 2 photo link pages on the SamuelHawley.com website which shows the Infinity Car.
http://www.samuelhawley.com/lsrphotosinfinity1.html (http://www.samuelhawley.com/lsrphotosinfinity1.html)
http://www.samuelhawley.com/lsrphotosinfinity2.html (http://www.samuelhawley.com/lsrphotosinfinity2.html)
and the link to his Land Speed Record pages
http://www.samuelhawley.com/lsr.html (http://www.samuelhawley.com/lsr.html)
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J79;
Thanks for the link to those photos; I had not seen them before.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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Some photos of the car Infinity. Imagine the noise from sitting in front of the intake.
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Is the model we see in the pictures available?
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Was there a written report on how/why the crash occurred? Did the front end fly up and it went over? Was it a high speed wobble or yaw, then it tumbled/rolled...?
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ugofadini.com
Ugo is the producer (it runs under Omicron, but the master is actually made by Ugo Fadini, who also build this model) of this model....go on the website....and contact Ugo....maybe he got one leftover....otherwise is this model currently on the list - waiting for enough order to start another production run......