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a legendary german racing driver. in a month and a crazy bed to break the land speed record. i am. the events of over 80 years ago remain shrouded in mystery. i've been a big blue m i l. road. i've been building. oh, what exactly happened on that fateful day? ah my up the bill, let me back in and what is it that drives people to risk their lives to break speed records?

ah, who was band hosemeier who was killed in january 1938. when he crashed, while racing down the perfectly straight out of on it over 400 kilometers per hour . civic out in eastern germany home to museum. that was once the racing car factory of outgo. when you own germany's 1st state own car maker and a predecessor of today's audi, the 930 saw an epic dual between 2 genes of the german racing seen as the relatively young outline jo and saw to overtake the dominant mercedes benz t. a high profile rivalry that intensified when band hose am i joined the outer on your own team. the young hot shot was to take on mercedes driver and european

champion, rudolph cut out jolla the auto renew, and bosses had high hopes for was a maya who was a boon for both motor racing and the nazi regime, eager to capitalize in the rivalry for propaganda purposes the dashing young dare devil fitted the bill perfectly. i'm figuring have become vision or the my own parents, yolanda spittoon was my. i'm beverly. i forgot you and i don't know how it all of them. i asked them. oh my god, god wonderful. oh them i would, i gave you that on that and with feel again rosamille on the guy that got my family was on the one with

with we're in dresden to meet a man who's written a number of books on the early german motor racing era. including the 1930 s, when the country's b carmakers fought out their rivalry on germany's new outer bonds, a network of modern highways, a pet project of the nazi regime, paid a cash bag is an automotive historian. the regime he explains, was eager to show that germany could build not only the fastest cars, but also the best roads to maximize publicity, the authorities held race is called record weeks on the new high speed motor ways. it was band o m i as big moment and walked towards oracle to her nozzles even untie as ish frozen. my broke a series of records that had belonged to kara jolla in october 1937. when earning them to also union this time lock shy. i'm a failed because of

a design outs of sync with the laws of nature on i can causally, and vig long deep and not old as, as they stand for when i'm ended by the end of the week of the national rice and commission of promised that i'm not soon be allowed to make for the record attempts, murders and next inside pulled i the was over fallen doll as will blame for the ongoing. also union have to respond because of the delicate relationship between a dime there in the public time law aren't in though f and dish tide. the alleged to go on to what if it was a decision, was that if they drive off that, then we need to drive as well as b r. k. m is now there was an ominous wind blowing when it was jose. my eyes turned to start on january 28th. 1938. on his 1st run, he clocked 429 kilometers per hour. a personal best, but still not fast enough to rest the record back for mercedes adjustments were

made while the wind grew stronger. despite warnings was m, i allegedly insisted on a 2nd run. it was $1147.00 and disaster at the 9.2 kilometer mark. those m i lost control of his type c car, dubbed tom lenient vog in or stream lighter flipping several times over a distance of 900 meters. the rec came to a stop on an embankment. those a maya was killed instantly. conspiracy theories quickly, sprint. auto executives were alleged to have disregarded the strong winds and st. hosemeier to premature death. ow. 2 noon did not appear interested in a thorough investigation. the wreckage of the car was disposed of before could be properly examined. without evidence, the only viable explanation was that

a gust of wind had blown rosy, meyer off the road. but is that the true explanation why 2 people put their lives on the line in high speed jewels over a couple of kilometers in the name of progress on some dubious petrov quest? or is it personal ambition and ego band hosemeier and his tragic death in 1938 an event that left the moderation world in shock. one of its top drivers was dead. the nazi authority stage, his burial and berlin, like a steep funeral. it turned into a political rally. family, friends, fans, and rivals paid their last respects while the notorious s. s. hell, the guard of honor for the fallen hero. but what was the actual cause of the accident? the question that was eclipsed amid the pomp of the funeral procession. nazi etiology could not allow a hero of the germination to have died due to technical deficiencies, let alone

a mortal driver's error. the cause was never investigated. cabinets home to the original outer own own headquarters and a branch of the official saxony state archives. we want to look at historical documents with this is where the file on band hose m i as death is captain bar range of original documents, formal testimony. affidavits and i witness accounts including this letter for certain auto gaia to the head of the out who noon motor racing team. his eye witness report recalls how the out on your own car viewed on to the grass bank and turned sideways details similar to those observed by time keeper carlo wheat man, who also referred to an explosion when questioned one

document is of special interest. a weather report from the nearby zepplin airport. between $11.12 on the day of the crash, it registered strong winds and gusts of up to 11 meters per 2nd. interestingly, only the mercedes team had asked for forecast ahead of the record attempts outland noon didn't. with the car maker later, sent a letter to its dealerships, however, insisting it had not recklessly put the driver under unreasonable pressure. and that the wind speed had in no way the pier dangerous an attempt to shun responsibility. there are no photos or film footage of was a meyers final and fatal run itself. it's rumored, some material was destroyed,

but one private recording survived captured by auto insula, who worked in frankfort photo processing lab. on the day of the race, he was on a foot bridge crossing over the autobahn where he was filming, and air show taking place. at the same time at one point m, sheila happened to briefly train his camera on the road below. oh, so my can be seen after his 1st run. he just clocked 429 kilometers per hour and was about to set off and the other direction on the 2nd in fatal record attempt at 1st glance with all eyes on the road, the film seems inconspicuous. but a closer look, reveals other movement on the right of the picture. trees, visibly swaying, and evidently strong. almost storm like winds was the 2nd run

a suicide mission. we next meet motor sports expert martine, shrewder. investigating who was, am i as crash, has become a labor of love for the former bookseller? over the years he's collected a wealth of documentation, much of it from private archives. and there's one question that never goes away. who is to blame for the driver's death? # one thing schluter is convinced of is that it cannot have been the wind alone is robin dish is, are caught us even over the frame of gin was windy. you can see in the film footage i heard on air 15 kilometers per hour from st. which wind blow the car off the road . me financial, i think like this can be due to 2 causes on yachts, y, or the combination of 2 zoom of one. so i will by analyzing the photos from

the infamous day, schluter came across some curious inconsistencies among them out owen jones, motor sports division, had made changes between the 1st and 2nd runs the air intake duct at the front of the car, for example, was made smaller the company, the nozzle is convicted one, the entire noise was replaced, and behind this little inlet, there was one tube supplying the engine with oxygen with torn on the more tor mitzo washed off to her face. and another she had connected to the cockpit or an iron or gate and scorpion, 3 were here, lionel's in ren oem, thus cockpit mit loft. so for long the tube was necessary to prevent hosemeier from suffocating its speed. and another photo is of interest. a section of the body on the road. the picture was taken by a reporter from italy and shows part of the under body and some odd looking

triangular openings. they were evidently air vows. they could be operated from the cockpit. bombard had to induce him, also, one didn't want his loft to earn. he had this outlet for the air streaming in at the front. and they told him that if it got too intense and at the speed it was like a storm. then he could step on this lever, but cancelled all cleared nor done his ho go or my number or not. i think he did that, which disrupted the lower aerodynamics in our because the air was suddenly being redirected underneath. upper lud von release. aloof storm. own it presses gaster up, bill, i don't have the car takes off. there's no ever you're stir mabel marianna song, lea airflow is disrupted at those speeds. at junk is $52.00 plain c stock and took

off at just $120.00 with all that weight really kissing. after the war, it became clear that speeds of over 600 kilometers per hour on land were not possible with combustion engines. records of that kind would require rocket propulsion and the kind of expanses available on this lunar like landscape why bonneville in the state of utah in the united states will the remnants of a primeval lake turned into seemingly infinite salt flax by a combination of wind and water for almost a century now, the ultimate test track and the mil dorado for speed freaks,

hey, this would be the stage for a new generation of record seekers. chief among them, art our fonts and craig breedlove. the 2 americans were obsessed with being the fastest men in history and would stop at nothing to set a new record, which i've now been held by a succession of british drivers. the dawn of the $960.00. so our funds and breedlove opened a new chapter in the competition for the ultimate automotive glory. ah, sam holly lives in ontario, canada. he spent years studying the history of the salt flats era of speed records, and the fearless men famed as junkyard geniuses. wholly his written a number of books on the era. ah, i'm around 96061 that the united states air force was getting rid of

a whole bunch of. i'm fighter jets from the korean war. and all this stuff was going into the junk market. and so anchor in los angeles were craig, we'd love live left, like literally hundreds of j 47 jet engines were being sold as scrap. so he was able to buy one for almost nothing, $500.00. he got that his 1st jet engine, if he got like an allison engine, it would have cost several $1000.00. so he was trying to save money by getting a jet ah, packing up to 70000 horsepower. those engines were fitted in 19 fifties air force chess, such as the famous star fire that reach speeds of over 2200 kilometers per hour. exactly what kind of power that could translate into with when vehicles was difficult to decipher, given the lack of testing, our funds knew absolutely nothing about jet engines. but somehow he, he found one from a junk dealer. and he found a like a, a manual about how to,

how these things worked. and he actually took this thing apart with no education, no background whatsoever. just kind of an innate intelligence that he had. and he put it back together and he figured out how it worked. so, i mean, that is a stunning story. that literally these guys were doing it in their back yards. they had a steel post that was buried in the ground. and they just literally chain the car to that post and they would run that engine. and i mean they, they totally black round dead. i mean all the grass and everything was, was blasted off of it or not tobar 1964, craig pre left broke his own record not once, but twice. the 2nd attempt to almost costing him his life. mm.

upon. wow. just under 850 kilometers per hour, they came on the car, the brake power shoot, snapped off. we long step on the brakes at that speed they would just burn them up. the car, sir, crossed the end of the pre said track, taking out to telephone poles before crashing into a salt lake. breedlove could have drowned in the desert lake, but managed to escape through the roof. top hatch a miracle. mm ah, over the decades. one thing that remains the same was that while the heroes of the road were put on a pedestal, they were at the same time, pons of both political and economic imperatives. by the 19 sixty's record attempts shifted up another gear, as commercial competition took the front seat,

sensing an opportune, needy to boost their images. the tire and fuel industries pumped up, the hype and huge sums of sponsorship money into the inventive constructor, tips for over 3 decades. the museum of technology and in time has been home to a vehicle that is perhaps the ultimate embodiment of this unbridled competition and its excesses. the blue flame, the product of an error. when record setting vehicles no longer really resemble cars, it's more of a rocket on wheels, 3 tons, propelled by 50000 horsepower. the driver was more of a pilot sitting on a mixture of liquid natural gas and hydrogen peroxide. it was rumored to be powerful enough to go to the moon. ready ah, re gab lake runs her own little museum here in long beach, california. dedicated to the legacy of that landmark runner. sitting in the blue

flame that day in october, 1970 was her husband gary. the 1st person to crack the 1000 kilometers per hour. mark in a land vehicle. it was a record that would stand for 13 years. ah, before coming to fame, gary gab alec was a little known drag racer who lived life in the fast lane of photo genic hell raiser, who looked good at the wheel of a bullet car and also cut a fine figure for ness is marketing men. he'd been a test subject for the apollo program space suit and life support systems. in 1969, they gave gary the choice of either staying with the appellate program or continuing on with his adventures in racing. and at that time, he already been signed to drive a blue flame. and so he gave up apollo for racing brown.

mm. or ah, talks about what it was like. and he goes through the count down from, you know, 19, you know, all the way down and how it felt when he's pushed back in the seed and experiencing the meaning. the g horse craig re loves record student 966 kilometers per hour. on october 23rd, 1970 gary gambling prepared to set off across the salt flax of bonneville, utah to break that 5 year old mock, but also to hit the 1000 kilometers per hour figure. he and his team had invested 6 years in the development of the 11 metre, long cigar shaped vehicle for a spectacle that would last just 22 seconds before the fuel would run out. the man

in the had is the killer one of the rocky cars creators. the former engineer now over 80 years old lives in daphne, alabama. and in the mid 19 sixty's, he tells us the u. s. natural gas industry was also keen to enter the arena. the big selling point was to get the american public, a sensational showcase of gas as more than just a fuel for old fashion heaters. he was a cleaner and more efficient alternative to gasoline and kerosene. a record for the ages would win over new customers and push up profits. keller and his little engineering company took up the challenge. basically our job was to try to do so a boost city with the land speed record and was up to them to take advantage of that and try and promoted to the general of the new record attempt was

a massive risk. wind tunnel tests had the blue flame topping 1200 kilometers per hour in the process breaking the sound barrier. but nobody could say if the running real conditions would go as planned. for the worst case scenario, the organizers had taken out life insurance for gobbling worth over $100000.00. 321. or you're among ready of 300. 350. 4 on 4. 56650?

yeah, we did a. that's exactly how to decide you was right. your boss blue flame was timed at 622 miles or just over a 1000 kilometers per hour. a speed eventually bettered by a british team in 1983 and again in 1997. the 2nd time with the 1st ever supersonic land vehicle in a mark that stands to this day. but despite having only held the record for 13 years, blue flames moment of fame will for some always be the most memorable. ah gary goblin never got the chance to regain record. he was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1984. ah,

the never ending west for speed has its heroes and its victims among them band hosemeier. the exact reasons for the fatal outcome of that run will likely remain a matter of speculation. was it just the way that sweat him off the road in january 1938? probably not. there were a range of other potential factors involved. insufficient development work and technical expertise and time pressure all things that were kept quiet for quite a while. diamond might have won the race for the record, but it was the out, o'neill and driver who grad the headlines and would feature. and most of the history books, the record set by dimer was ultimately reduced to a footnote as for bad hose, a maya, was he really the fearless driver and dare devil who threw caution to the wind on

that fateful day? impervious to any fear. many observers have blamed the driver for his own death at the has the regional archives and dom shot. we found photos previously not seen by the public. one is a shot of hose. am i a minutes before that final journey? with a look of a man who has a sense of foreboding, ah ah

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