Fifty years ago, October 1970, 3 young men from Milwaukee in their twenties, (Dick Keller, Pete Farnsworth and Ray Dausman) had created The Blue Flame rocket-powered automobile which set the world land speed record at 630.388 miles per hour, the first over 1,000 kilometers per hour.
Speedquest, Inside the Blue Flame is the story of our dogged determination to realize our goal. Each member of the team worked tirelessly to create a vehicle that would not only beat all land speed records, but our ?secret? hope was to beat the sound barrier too!
After 5 years? effort we were finally able to bring The Blue Flame to the Bonneville salt flats and show the world what we had created.
At the end of 5 weeks on the Bonneville Salt Flats, we shattered the world record with a top speed of 630.388 mph (1,014.656 kph), and were prepared to go even faster the next day when a snowstorm prohibited us from trying again. The Blue Flame and Gary Gabelich was the last American car and driver to hold the world land speed record.
Lastly, included is all the technical data as addendums, so even the most technically advanced readers will learn something from this book.
It is a moment of American history that shows what can be accomplished when brains, energy and commitment are directed toward a goal, and still stands as of one of the great efforts of the late 20th century.
The book is available from Amazon in softback and eBook formats.
The web page is:
https://speedquestbook.com/
