Vampire Jet Car

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Sat 24 May 2025 22:29
Vampire Jet Car - Adampr

Today, whilst driving home from B&Q in Weston-Super-Mare in my entirely unremarkable Suzuki Vitara, I overtook the Vampire. It's the UK land speed record holder and nearly rid us of Richard Hammond in 2006.

It was on a trailer.

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Sun 25 May 2025 11:49
Vampire Jet Car - edlithgow

Common in the skies above my grandparents place in York when I was a kid. I believe they were partly made of wood, which must be fairly unusual for a jet fighter.

If you want more car connection, the prototype had a Halford engine

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Mon 26 May 2025 00:05
Vampire Jet Car - focussed

Common in the skies above my grandparents place in York when I was a kid. I believe they were partly made of wood, which must be fairly unusual for a jet fighter.

If you want more car connection, the prototype had a Halford engine

Halford engine? Yes and no - Design of the H1 engine was carried out by Frank Halford at his London consulting firm starting in April 1941. The H-1 first ran on 13 April 1942 and quickly matured to produce its full design thrust within two months. It first flew on 5 March 1943 in the Gloster Meteor, and on 26 September in the de Havilland Vampire. It was around this time that de Havilland purchased Halford's company and set him up as the chairman of the de Havilland Engine Company, with the engine name changing from H-1 to "Goblin" A less tenuous automotive connection is that Svenska Flygmotor built the Goblin 2 engine under licence as their RM1 in Sweden for the Swedish air force. Svenska Flygmotor became Volvo Flygmotor
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Mon 26 May 2025 09:42
Vampire Jet Car - mcb100
This’ll be it -

www.northsomersettimes.co.uk/news/25140105.worlds-.../
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Mon 26 May 2025 13:28
Vampire Jet Car - Adampr
This’ll be it - www.northsomersettimes.co.uk/news/25140105.worlds-.../

Thanks! I'm just glad somebody has an inkling of what I was talking about

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Wed 28 May 2025 03:30
Vampire Jet Car - edlithgow

I knew what you were talking about, I just found the wooden jet fighter more interesting, and not much more distant from actual cars.

Congratulations on your overtaking victory though.

Was there buffetting?

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