HHSTT 6,453 mph land speed record

World land speed record, 6,453 mph rocket sled, Holloman High Speed Test Track.

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[jm2916]

parking always was one of chuck norris's weaknesses.

[mageac]

@Ecurrie84 his name is john stapp, he did just a hair under 632

the video says its 6500 mph, its not

[j342tof]

@Scootermagoo ur a twat!

[justwired]

@VrOOm1337 really the space shuttle re-enters the atmosphere at more then 18000 miles an hour the escape veloscity to leave the earths atmosphere is 25000 thousand mph

[MegaParker555]

The Space Shuttle burned 30% of its fuel reaching a velocity of Mach 1.

I don't understand why these types of rail technology (or Maglev) isn't being used to accelerate payloads to those speeds before throwing them off and allowing the rockets to kick in. Its a pretty high capitol investment but its estimated that you can have a payload increase of 80% just by getting a rocket to 0.8 Mach initially.

[SuperBlaze500]

Epic and agree below

[VrOOm1337]

Stupid stupid people, read this and thumbs up to stop the rant. The record the Thrust SSC set was for the fastest MANNED VEHICLE by breaking the speed of sound. THIS is attached to a rail underneath and powered by rockets. It's the fastest UNMANNED ROCKET SLED. The record John Stapp set was for the fastest MANNED ROCKET SLED. No human could possibly survive the speeds shown on this video. P.S: The Thrust SSC is faster than John Stapp's rocket sled, convinced now?

[dalejrfan800]

@hoberator Well, it's not that hard to look up pictures of the sleds for size comparison.

[hoberator]

@dalejrfan800 All I can tell is that it looks heavy, doc.



[dalejrfan800]

@hoberator Do you have any Idea how large the sled is, or how far the camera was from the sled?

[Scootermagoo]

The only accurate comment on this entire thread was the first one.. Woah.. the rest of you need to stfu. The brits are pissed we made andy ( is he a god btw the brits think so) look slow. This is a land speed record for unmanned vehicles. Stop being stupid. Andy broke the sound barrier proven fact. Stfu all of you this is real and after reading almost a 1000 comments of this shit, you all need a chill pill.

[Scootermagoo]

@0username000 it's south of alamogordo new mexico at hollaman airforce base and the white sands missile range been there.. it's like looking at the curve of the earth and is about 75 miles from where they exploded the first a bomb in 44-45