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◊ 2010-02-08 04:58 |
One can read "Courage of" and there's an Australian flag on the tailfin. I typed "Courage of Australia" into Google and got a couple relevant hits. According to this, it was the built by Bill Fredrick: http://www.laffin-gas.com/history.html To quote: "In August, 1967 at US 30 drag strip in Crown Point, Illinois, Chuck Suba drove the X-1 to a 5.41 second elapsed time (although Pete Farnsworth felt the best elapsed time record on reliable clocks was 5.9 seconds at Oklahoma City). The 5.41 second elapsed time remained drag racing's all-time low ET until November 11, 1971 when the second hydrogen peroxide rocket dragster, Bill Fredrick's Courage of Australia driven by Vic Wilson, recorded a 5.107 second 311 mph pass during private testing at Orange County International Raceway, California. In doing so, it became the first car of any kind to run 300 mph in a quarter mile. The Courage of Australia was essentially a scaled-down Blue Flame clone. Nitrogen was contained in a spherical bottle mounted in the nose forward of the single front wheel with the hydrogen peroxide in a horizontal tank forward of the cockpit." Also mentioned here: http://www.dragracingonline.com/features/miller_2.html -- Last edit: 2010-02-08 06:46:31 |