RIP Jessi Combs

**gravitylover** · 08-29-2019, 05:36 AM

Trying to break the land speed record in the Oregon desert. https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...-record-crash/

**bagtagley** · 08-29-2019, 06:13 AM

What a bummer. She was a badass.

SB · 08-29-2019, 06:19 AM

RIP Jessi Combs

**hawkgt** · 08-29-2019, 08:35 AM

Sucks. I thought she was a bad ass chick and she did well for herself. RIP

She reminded me of a woman I worked with when I first out of college. Smoking hot welder who loved the Scorpions. She could lay dimes like no other, and kick you ass if you said/did the wrong shit, seen it. She laid out a dude in the paint booth who pinched her ass, funny as shit. 2x her size and that guy fell like a tree.

**billyk** · 08-29-2019, 01:03 PM

Hate to say I never heard of her. Shows how out of touch I am. Guess she was on Mythbusters, too?

Seems like a really kick-ass chicka. RIP.

**glademaster** · 08-29-2019, 02:07 PM

RIP. That's a binary outcome sport if there ever was one.

**jackstraw** · 08-29-2019, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by glademaster

RIP. That's a binary outcome sport if there ever was one.

Yeah. Wow. A rocket on the ground.

RIP crazy chick

**Dantheman** · 08-29-2019, 02:40 PM

Just realized who this was. Awful, but a bit like hearing that a prolific BASE jumper or free soloist has died. No margin for error at those speeds.

**Buzzworthy** · 08-29-2019, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by Dantheman

Just realized who this was. Awful, but a bit like hearing that a prolific BASE jumper or free soloist has died. No margin for error at those speeds.

512 MPH will do it. RIP to a badass woman.

**highangle** · 08-29-2019, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by Buzzworthy

512 MPH will do it. RIP to a badass woman.

Exception that proves the rule: I leased a boat from a chap who punched out of F104 at 590 MPH indicated airspeed, and lived.

QED & RIP

**Benny Profane** · 08-29-2019, 05:09 PM

Well, I guess this is proof that DIY hot rodding a fighter jet to ground travel needs a little more expertise than a bad ass chick tv star and her bad assness. First thing you need is a few aerospace guys to figure out the aerodynamics, at least, like when Thrust was developed.

**Vt-Freeheel** · 08-29-2019, 05:37 PM

STFU Benny

She has been working on this for a long time with a crew of qualified professionals. Shit happens, RIP.

**billyk** · 08-29-2019, 05:49 PM

She had hit 483 in previous runs. According to this report, she was attempting to hit 619.

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/08/28/...usauto00000015

**Benny Profane** · 08-29-2019, 06:29 PM

That's when aerodynamics get super freaky, because you're breaking the sound barrier, sending shock waves 360. Hard enough in the air, dangerous on the ground. It's been done already, though. Don't see the point in a woman repeating the feat. Doesn't take strength.

**Conundrum** · 08-29-2019, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Doesn't take strength.

Just one more thing you have expertise in.

**Benny Profane** · 08-29-2019, 06:45 PM

Here. I'll let the current record holder explain. Oh, and btw, unless they changed the rules for reality TV, you have to make two runs within an hour to set a record.

Amazing achievement. Not to be trifled with.

**Vt-Freeheel** · 08-29-2019, 06:53 PM

Benny wouldn't have survived childhood in Lake Wobegon.

**iceman** · 08-29-2019, 07:25 PM

RIP.

found this from 1979, pretty cool:

**Benny Profane** · 08-29-2019, 07:33 PM

I remember this guy from my yout. The best name ever. Craig Breedlove. (should be a porno name) And The Spirit of America.

**SumJongGuy** · 08-29-2019, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Don't see the point in a woman repeating the feat. Doesn't take strength.

Side eye is the only acceptable answer to this stupid comment..

**Benny Profane** · 08-29-2019, 07:36 PM

Shirley was strong as a man?

Besides, she was a champion. Beat men at their game.

**Flyoverland Captive** · 08-29-2019, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Shirley was strong as a man?

Besides, she was a champion. Beat men at their game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxTnIkapl-I

**Benny Profane** · 08-29-2019, 07:59 PM

Heart like a Wheel is a pretty good movie about her.

**muted** · 08-29-2019, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Here. I'll let the current record holder explain. Oh, and btw, unless they changed the rules for reality TV, you have to make two runs within an hour to set a record.

Amazing achievement. Not to be trifled with.

I’ve been in the pits with old college buddies setting records at Speed Week, it’s not a one hour window Bunny. You are talking out of your butthole once again.