{"id":14791,"date":"2003-06-19T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/modified-f-104-starfighter-to-break-land-speed\/"},"modified":"2003-06-19T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-19T12:17:00","slug":"modified-f-104-starfighter-to-break-land-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/modified-f-104-starfighter-to-break-land-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Modified F-104 Starfighter To Break Land Speed Record ?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read correctly; I did a doubletake too when I first came upon this story.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landspeed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">North American Eagle team<\/a> aims to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribnet.com\/news\/story\/3315129p-3346367c.html\" target=\"_blank\">break the British land speed record<\/a> with a craft based on the chassis of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpafb.af.mil\/museum\/modern_flight\/mf46.htm\" target=\"_blank\">F-104 Starfighter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of speed-crazed men from Pierce County wants to break the world land-speed record with a jet plane-turned-three-wheeled-vehicle they are building in a hangar in Spanaway&hellip; The vehicle has elements of a potential world record-holder: It&rsquo;s a former Air Force plane re-engineered for subsonic speed, with a jet engine that generates 39,000 horsepower and solid aluminum wheels machined for desert surface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.landspeed.com\/\" title=\"North American Eagle Team\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"North American Eagle F-104\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/f-104landspeedrecord.jpg\" \/><\/a>This should prove to be quite interesting&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>It brings to mind the decidedly less ambitious effort that Shaft and I came up with oh, about 15 years ago: to explode an F-104 Starfighter plastic model by strapping model rocket engines onto it and lighting different types of fuses to ignite it.  It&rsquo;s probably a good thing that you can&rsquo;t ignite those engines with a flame, and as such Shaft and I have all 10 of our fingers.  And to think that we didn&rsquo;t even drink back then&hellip; \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/linkfilter.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">linkfilter<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200438228?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read correctly; I did a doubletake too when I first came upon this story. The North American Eagle team aims to break the British land speed record with a craft based on the chassis of an F-104 Starfighter: A group of speed-crazed men from Pierce County wants to break the world land-speed record &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/modified-f-104-starfighter-to-break-land-speed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Modified F-104 Starfighter To Break Land Speed Record ?!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}