Thrust 2 (Part 3) - Richard Noble's 633mph Land Speed Record
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- 40 years on from setting the World Land Speed Record on October 4th 1983, this is the story of Thrust 2 from its humble beginnings to land speed glory.
In Part Three, the Thrust team pick up the pieces after crashing during a test run, flooding at Bonneville forces a change of venue and Richard Noble finally achieves his lifetime's ambition.
I'm very grateful to original Thrust 2 team member John Norris, who has provided previously unseen footage of the team and the car on the Black Rock Desert in 1983.
Thanks also to the Thrust 2 team members who agreed to interviews!
FURTHER READING (Disclaimer: I get a commission every time you purchase a product through my affiliate links below).
This book in particular has been a fantastic resource in my research for this video. If you want to know more detail about Thrust 2 than I could cover in a 28 minute video, Richard Noble tells the whole story here. Highly recommended!
Thrust 2: A Memory by Richard Noble
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ALSO ON MY BOOKSHELF::
Thrust: The Remarkable Story of One Man's Quest for Speed by Richard Noble
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Speed Duel by Samuel Hawley
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Goldenrod: The Resurrection of America's Speed King by John Baechtel
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The History Of Speed by Martin Roach
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Railton: Man Of Speed by Karl Ludvigsen
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Donald Campbell: The Man Behind The Mask by David Tremayne
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Bluebird and the Dead Lake: The Classic Account of how Donald Campbell broke the World Land Speed Record by John Pearson
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Leap into Legend: Donald Campbell and the Complete Story of the World Speed Records by Steve Holter
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Bluebird CN7: The Inside Story of Donald Campbell's Last Land Speed Record Car by Donald Stevens
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Parry Thomas: The First Driver to be Killed in Pursuit of the Land Speed Record by Hugh Tours
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Quest For Speed: The Epic Saga of Record-Breaking On Land by Barry John
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The Fast Set: Three Extraordinary Men and Their Race for the Land Speed Record by Charles Jennings
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Man Against the Salt by Harvey Shapiro
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Ultimate Speed: The Fast Life and Extreme Cars of Racing Legend Craig Breedlove by Samuel Hawley
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Infinity Over Zero: Meditations on Maximum Velocity by Cole Coonce
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Speedquest: Inside the Blue Flame by Richard Keller
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Crusader: John Cobb's ill-fated quest for speed on water by Steve Holter
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Archive: Project Thrust, Richard Noble, John Norris, The Ackroyd Collection, Charles Noble, Bloodhound Education, Thrust WSH, Shutterstock, Alamy, BBC, Autocar, TravelNevada.com, VisitGerlach.com, Bureau of Land Management, Wikipedia & Unidentified Sources.
All unlicensed archive used under Fair Use / Fair Deal. Copyright acknowledged in all material.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:37 "We've Got To Find Somewhere"
6:44 The Right Sort Of Desert
9:51 Back To Black Rock
13:39 Driving Thrust 2
19:47 The Fastest Man On Earth
23:14 Epilogue - 40 Years Later - Авто та транспорт
"...the Queen's paid for all the parts..." I love the spirit and implication of that remark 😂😂
Me too! Love that every time there was a seemingly insurmountable problem, an opportunity to move forward was found...
Man wanted a boys own adventure, man got a boys own adventure. A good man. Also, thanks Scarf, these are awesome.
Boys' Own Adventure sums it up perfectly! Incredible story - thanks for watching.
@ScarfAndGoggles 😂😂❤❤❤❤❤the 😊😊
The story is incredible. This NEEDS to be a movie
I couldn't agree more!
@@ScarfAndGoggles I second a guy for this, I mean if Concord can be a movie on USSR race between UK, France, USA making a plane for super sonic flight first or have a movie on guy from New Zealand, Worlds fastest Indian or UK Green Monster, I would like to see a movie on Thrust/Thrust 2 and Blue Flame, first past 630 MPH and a sequel Thrust SSC Vs Spirit of America II.
This channel is criminally underappreciated.
Couldn't agree more! ;)
Can't believe how amazing this video is, plus the exclusive interviews from real team memebers!
It was an amazing opportunity to interview Richard and then be invited to the museum for the reunion. The footage from 1983 was the result of a conversation at that event. Amazing where life can take you!
Richard........you are an absolute legend.......and a fabulous chap. It was a pleasure helping with your projects and left some very special memories for me ( kept in my photo album diary ) God Bless you
Thank you, really enjoyed this final part, true British spirit, we need more people like Richard.
Great to hear him recount his experience, and of course he needed the team, who were no doubt motivated by his leadership and determination.
It really was a team effort, something Richard has always been keen to point out.
Loved following this series, as a child of the 80s was a big thing growing up and we went to see Thrust 2 but didn't know the detail until now so many thanks for sharing. What an achievement by the team, true underdog spirit and adventure
If this does not bring a smile to your face, you've come to the wrong channel! Please, please make this into a feature film! It's got all the ingredients!
I agree - it's an amazing up-and-down tale of success through adversity!
Fantastic, thank you so much S&C and thank you Richard, I could listen to these stories all day.
He's a top bloke!
Thankyou S&G for a very good record of Thrust 2 and, of course, thankyou to Richard, John, Ken and the team for making it happen and the inspiration they have given to generations of budding engineers.
I would recommend visiting the Transport Museum in Coventry. Its a great place. I WOULD NOT recommend visiting anywhere else in Coventry however.
AMAZING , every single road block turned into a DOMINO piece and fell in to place perfectly , what an amazing set of fortunate circumstances
It's a great story, and Noble recounts it so well.
For me Richard is a fine chap that has inspired many people to do different things.
Richard, you're awesome and so are the people who have worked with you. 😀👍
Well said!
A noble goal.
Clever! Thanks for watching!
What a fabulous series, of a great British story. Loved it.
Great - thank you!
hard work, determination, and pride
Thanks for putting this together very heartening to see this from a time when it meant something to be British, we all new which way was up and Richard and the team gave two fingers to the rest of the world. Always seeing those films of the runs across the desert in 1983 really brought home what it was all about. It could have all gone so very different if the RAF hadn't have volunteered the rebuild! Hats off to all involved.
Absolutely fantastic to watch and listen to Richards dialogue of what it's like becoming the fastest man on earth!, at that time.
I really enjoyed seeing that.
Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it - thanks for watching!
Excellent News.
Been waiting for this.
Thank you
Sorry it took so long - it became a bit of an epic!
@@ScarfAndGoggles
Definitely worth the wait from a viewing perspective.
Absolutely wonderful “Boys Own” story.
Thanks again
Thrust 2 went on a tour of the UK around this time. I went to see it displayed in my local leisure centre I think. I’d just started high school. Seeing it inspired me to get into engineering. I now design aircraft for a living.
Wow! Noble is very keen to get people into engineering and science, good to hear of a real-life success story!
Incredible interview, so happy you where able to get these stories from Richard. It's a shame nobody was able to interview other land speed legends like this, Imagine if someone had done this same with Donald Campbell.
The first unofficial (only 1 run, no 2 runs and turn around) car to break the sound barrier is 5 hours away from me, the Budweiser Rocket Car.
I take my hat off to you sir .
It's people like you and the traits you exhibit in your endeavour that make me truly proud to be a member of the human race
The man's a force of nature!
What a story S&G - I am totally captivated by the series on Thrust 2 - if Richard Noble approached me for help and even I didn't know him I could not say no - he's just that charismatic infectious enthusiastic person - you can still see that fire in him as he recounts the events of the late 70s and early 80s - Thanks so much for putting all this together !
You're most welcome - RN remains a force of nature to this day!
These videos are so well put together. I appreciate you making them.
Thanks so much for watching!
Best LSR channel on UA-cam
You mean there are others? (Kidding). Thank you so much!
Excellent documentary, thanks ..
Richard N is a fantastic story teller, 👏 👌 😀
Glad you enjoyed it!
A beautifully lovely video, brings back great memories the supporters club from Thrust 2 though to SSC, and the hole teem are a great group of people
Glad you enjoyed it
Great work as always. Working on such a project is a once-in-a-lifetime oportunity and this team sure took the best of it. Insane the detail that if they went 7 km/h faster the car would've gone airborne.
Glad you enjoyed it! Scary details like that make Noble's achievement all the more impressive...
Bravo! Very well narrated, and the stories are fascinating. I used to wonder about these land speed records, reading about them on the pages of Guinness Book of Records as a kid. Thanks to your channel, I have some answers, and have learned about these brave, brilliant people who made it all happen. Thank you, S&G!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for this fantastic documentary series 👍 What a adventure for all involved in this project. Perseverance pays off.😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Richard Noble is long overdue for a Knighthood.
Agreed!
What a great story and a nice man.
He's a great bloke.
My god it was forty years ago. What a wonderful gentleman.
He really is!
Thanks again for producing these fantastic videos for us all.
You're most welcome - glad you're enjoying them!
What a story 🤯♥️
Glad you enjoyed it!
WOW S+G.
thanks for that.
Absolutely brilliant to listen to 1st hand chat with Richard.
I worked at GKN Sankey at the time he was on the scrounge.
I never realised how instrumental we had been in those early days.
Amazing to see what you can do with a can-do attitude and the nerve to ask!
That was absolutely awesome, what a treat.
So pleased you enjoyed it!
I remember the original runs, and even now, it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Thoroughly enjoyed this series, thank you.
Great, thanks for watching!
The fact that this man in spite of his name and all he has done for England was not aknighted in incomprehensible.
Thanks for this series, I've enjoyed them immensely.
You're most welcome!
Fantastic...thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Man... I've been waiting for this one!
Sorry it took so long - it ended up being an epic! Hope you enjoyed it!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
It's good to see another post from you thank you. Keep them coming
Thanks, will do!
"400mph is boring. You want to get out and walk" 😮
That aside, I've driven "only" up to a few mph beneath 200 and there are stages where you start to look further and further down the road. Your vision narrows and your mental processes speed up. Richard explained it perfectly... but at far far more serious speeds again.
I loved that comment! "400mph is NOTHING!"
Excellent series .
Thanks so much!
Fantastic! Thank you for posting this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you. Love the history. Keep up the great work.
Will do!
one of my favourite channels
Aww, shucks. Thank you!
great series
Thank you
Great work. Such a good watch. Thanks for doing these.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed watching.
Superb series!
Thank you kindly!
Thanks for yet another great film!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video ,Thanks a lot .
Thanks for watching!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Thank you so very much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for making the video. Such a fascinating and dangerous topic,
Glad you enjoyed it!
Congratulations on a great series S&G .
Thank you! Became a bit of an epic...!
An extraordinary story, humbly but extraordinarily told. A wonderful bookend too, S&G, to your telling of the older stories, thank you for this irreplaceable record.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful stuff!
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it!
Smashing s&g absolutely brilliant well put together
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it!
What an amazing video
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is a great series.
Thank you!
Excellent series. Well done.
Many thanks!
Really great work, and a very enjoyable and interesting watch. Thanks very much for this series. And also appreciate your past efforts too. long time watcher, infrequent commenter. Always appreciate the interesting detail, good narration. Always well put together on the whole. God bless, Merry Christmas
WOW! Thank you very much, I'm so glad you enjoyed the series. Best wishes for 2024 and Merry Christmas!
A great series keep up the great work fella 👏
Thank you - will do!
Bloody marvelous!
Thanks for watching!
Really been enjoying this series, such a great achievement and interesting story.
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it!
Greatly interesting and such a good interview
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic stuff. I followed daily on internet with the SSC stories and success.
Me too! Such a privilege to meet one of my heroes.
Thanks so much for this series. As much as I thought I already knew about the whole Thrust 2 project, it’s thrown up some wonderful snippets of new info.
You're most welcome, glad it was of interest!
Absolutely wonderful, well presented series S & G. Simply magical. Thank you!!
Wow - thank you very much!
As usual the quality and presentation on this channel is unbelievably good, look forward to the next episode!!
Thank you! Planning new stuff at the moment...
What a brilliant series, thank you! Could listen to Richard talk about his exploits for hours - he's so enthusiastic, charismatic and self deprecating. What a fantastic achievement by all involved. Cheers S&G 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
What an incredible story! You've told the story so well, brilliant! Thank you.
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it!
This channel seems to always have top notch content and this series on Thrust 2 was especially enjoyable.
Thank you for watching - glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent upload Scarf and Goggles. I doubt you'll upload again before Christmas so I hope you and everyone have a great holiday. It's funny he says everything slows down at speed. I've been over 200mph several times racing sport bikes and experienced it around 130-150mph where everything slows down and you can process everything coming at you so incredibly fast. The human brain is an amazing thing.
Thank you! Happy holidays!
What a brilliant channel, the footage with Richard Noble describing the run gave me goosebumps, that must have been amazing to witness! Thank you so much for such a well put together video , cheers
Thanks very much for watching!
Bloody brilliant.
One hell of an adventure. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Shook hands with Mr Noble once upon a time when they toured with the car etc. around the sponsors 'post' success. IMI Norgren in Shipston on Stour, doing my A levels at the time.
Cheers.
Thanks
Wow - thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ScarfAndGoggles
I ALWAYS enjoy your videos!
Fantastic series and I enjoyed it beyond words. I remember when it was going on and the occasional blurbs in the news, but being way pre internet, not a lot of info. And of course you only would hear they failed or were succesful, nothing of the struggles involved ( at least here in the states). And on a tangental sidenote, as an old motorcycle desert racer, I have a special hate in my heart for the Sierra Club. Screw those assholes.
Thank you! I thought stories and exploits that happened pre-internet were being forgotten, and needed to be retold. Glad you enjoyed this one.
Brilliant
Thank you!
Anybody who breaks a land or water speed record is cut from another cloth I think but regardless this is an astonishing achievement and amazing story all round, Richard Noble must of been a pleasure to talk to and the next story is Thrust WSH which is another ball game entirely ❤
Agreed - it's a spirit of adventure that's rare these days!
Amazing
A fraction of one degree between success and failure, and that failure would not doubt have been quite binary!
Not much room for error!
"300 to 500 is boring".
Totally fascinating to hear how a run is made.
Made me laugh when he said that!
Shared to Land Racing Forum. 😁
Thank you kindly, as ever.
THE BEST CAR TURBO
What a guy. Best of British.
Amazing bloke.
WOW 🤩 ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
The irony hey, one of Thrust 2’s sponsors at the time was Leyland Trucks. A company that was world renowned for making the best trucks in the world but not so good at managing the manufacture of British cars when they merged their company with Britains iconic car marques. But at least Leyland Trucks was associated with a British success for the land speed record, instead of being a failure associated with the British car industry’s downfall. 🇬🇧
Good things happen to good people. Wish you guys could get that car with Sir Andy Green to the magic 1000 mph. Andy is probably the only man who could get it there. I hope somehow someway you give it another go at it.
Not only did RAF Binbrook rebuild the engine, they rebuilt it to a higher spec with more thrust. Which was probably ultimately necessary for getting the record.
Yes, despite the extra power and various modifications, it was a close thing.
300 to 500 is boring 😂😂😂😂 yeah i know he feeling, it happens alot on the M4 commute. Anything below 500 is tedious 😂😂😂😂. But i guess for a man who went way over 600 then anything slower simply doesnt get the pulse going and the adrenaline pumping.
Excellent channel. Love what youve covered. Ive learnt a lot about a subject that has fascinated me since going to Beaulieu motor museum on a school field trip back in the 70s or 80s and seeing Bluebird and the other land speed record breaking cars.
Thanks for watching! I was also inspired by visiting Beaulieu many years ago and seeing their LSR collection.
Ive enjoyed this series, i do think you must have a death whish, or even be half baked to attempt stuff like this, but glad some do so
Brave stuff!
Gud vid 💯💥👌😃
Thank you
@@ScarfAndGoggles Thank you for the fascinating vids 💯💥😀
I remember when back at the beginning the media were taking the piss out of Richard's efforts, 'look at what this nutter is doing' they sure don't do that any more!
The man's a force of nature. Unstoppable.
18:25 Somatogravic Illiusion explained.
Must have been terrifying the first time.
My relative Stormy Mangham designed motorcycle fairings for speed record's 🤠🇺🇲🙏🤟Salt flats
I might do a motorcycle record video next year - not sure yet.
Have a bunch of videos disappeared from your channel? What’s going on?