Craig Breedlove dies at 86; he set land speed records, then broke them
and over the course of a few years in the Sixties, set land-speed records at 400, 500 and then more than 600 miles per hour.
All of his grounded rockets were named “Spirit of America,” and the man himself — handsome, earnest, and revered as a kind of earthbound astronaut — was a former fireman from Los Angeles who designed a type of vehicle whose three wheels, jet engine, missile shape and rear fin made it resemble not a car so much as a wingless fighter plane.on Aug. 5, 1963, on the flats in Utah with his first handmade, jet-powered machine, which had cost $250,000 to build.
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