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Bush Tucker Man:

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I was going to say she's an 'Essex Girl' (& all that entails), but I noticed your location too :lol:  :lol:

littlepow:

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Richard Noble (for his struggles to get the Thrust projects running)

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I got to go to a seminar of his at Middlesborough, about the problems of Thrust SSC and how they are hoping to over come them. Very engineering intense, but also it was a very good insight.

The Q & A at he end was very amusing, especially with the problem of tyres and brakes at such high speeds.

kizz81:
the girl in her grey car who smiles at me in the mornings at the traffic lights  :lol:

james may
richard hammond
jeremy clarkson

for the laugh  :lol:

cheers kieran

Bush Tucker Man:

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Richard Noble (for his struggles to get the Thrust projects running)

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I got to go to a seminar of his at Middlesborough, about the problems of Thrust SSC and how they are hoping to over come them. Very engineering intense, but also it was a very good insight.
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I bet it was, the book that was written afterwards is wonderful.
It goes over all the trials & tribulations that he had right from his first car.
It also deals with the testing done at Pendine Sands , with models on the rocket-powered railway there!!!!!!!
Plus accounts of an overland trip in Africa (in a Landie!)
Forget the title at the moment :oops:


--- Quote from: "littlepow" ---The Q & A at he end was very amusing, especially with the problem of tyres and brakes at such high speeds.
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Well, he did turn his first jet car over, when a front wheel-bearing collapsed (or the tyre punctured)
Mm? :? , sounds like someone else we all 'know'


Edit

Quite a simple title really, how could I forget that??? :oops:  :oops:
Especially as there's a copy downstairs in my 'snug'

http://www.richard-noble.com/ (book is linked on the home page)

Try & get it from your local Library, it's well worth the read! (a BTM recommendation)

Edit. 2
The Amazon link gives an independant synopsis & the ISBN, if you want order via the Library system

Bush Tucker Man:
On a sporting basis (for me anyway)

Lance Armstrong; For his amazing Cancer come-back & 7 Tour de France victories)

Eddy Merckx; Nicknamed the 'Cannibal', & a close friend of Armstrongs

Robert Miller; Scottish rider, who excelled when the going got steep

Stephen Roche; (Giro d'Italia, Tour de France & World Road-Race Champion winner, all in 1987)

Beryl Burton; Multiple World Champion & still the only woman to have beaten mens competition records - & that stands for any other sport too, as far I know (deceased)

Tim Gould; First British mountain-biker to beat the Americans at their own game

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