![]() ![]() Multiple angles are shown before the parachute is deployed. The jet engine is seen up close, fired, and the vehicle takes off, kicking a layer of salt at the camera. A group of men perform maintenance on various parts of the vehicle (1:51-2:25). The roof is placed over him and the vehicle panned. Craig Breedlove is shown seated wearing his helmet and mask. September 5, 1963, the Spirit of America is pulled onto the flats. The parachute deploys behind the speed record words (:09-:42). Two days later, Art Arfons tops that at 434.02 mph in the Green Monster. The Wingfoot Express, Tom Green its driver, is shown going 413.20 mph. It is about the land speed records set in 1964 in Utah is presented by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and Shell as “A Spotlite News Program.” It opens Octoat the Bonneville Salt Flats. This AMA-sanctioned event, which also includes Fédération Internationale de Motocylisme recognition, offers competitors the opportunity to clinch AMA national and FIM world records aboard machines from 50cc mini-bikes to 3,000cc.This 1964 film is a test print that - unfortunately - is silent. The AMA Land Speed Grand Championship, also known as the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials, is the premier motorcycle land-speed racing event in the world. Some classes are more serious than others, with participants ranging from weekend enthusiasts chasing double-digit mph speed records on small-bore motorcycles to professional race teams fielding million-dollar engineering masterworks. Classes are determined by engine displacement, modification levels and various degrees of streamlining, and encompass everything from small-displacement racers to high-powered, custom-built streamliners made for the sole purpose of topping 400 mph. ![]() Land-speed trials are all about going faster than anyone has gone before on a mile-long course over perfectly level terrain at Bonneville Salt Flats. ![]()
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