Blue Flame (automobile)

The Blue Flame is the rocket-powered vehicle driven by Gary Gabelich that achieved the world land speed record on Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on October 23, 1970. The vehicle set the FIA world record for the flying mile at 622.407 mph (1,001.667 km/h) and the flying kilometer at 630.388 mph (1,014.511 km/h).

Design and construction

Blue Flame was constructed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Reaction Dynamics, a company formed by Pete Farnsworth, Ray Dausman and Dick Keller who had developed the first hydrogen peroxide rocket dragster, called the X-1 and driven by Chuck Suba.Blue Flame used a combination of high-test peroxide and liquified natural gas (LNG), pressurized by helium gas. The effort was sponsored by The American Gas Association, with technical assistance from the Institute of Gas Technology of Des Plaines, IL.

"Reaction Dynamics" was formed in 1965 and started out as "DFK Enterprises", for Dausman, Farnsworth and Keller. At that time Dick Keller worked part-time as a research assistant into gas technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which was the research arm of the American Gas Association. Pete Farnsworth was a Top Alcohol dragster racer.

Blue Flame (disambiguation)

Blue Flame may refer to:

Automobiles

  • Blue Flame (automobile), a rocket-powered car
  • Blue Flame (engine), a Chevrolet engine
  • Film and TV

    Film

  • Blue Flame (film), a 1993 low budget science fiction movie
  • Television

  • Blue Flame, a type of Firebending that Azula from the Fire Nation uses in Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • Sports

  • Blue Flame, nickname of Karabükspor, a Turkish sports club
  • Blue flame, in English-speaking countries, a colloquial name for fart lighting
  • Music

  • Jimmy James and the Blue Flames (The Blue Flames), a 1960s American rock band formed by Jimi Hendrix
  • Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, a 1960s band led by Georgie Fame
  • Albums

  • Blue Flame, (1955) an album by Woody Herman
  • Blue Flame (2010), a mixtape by The Based God, Lil B
  • Blue Flames (1964), an album by Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine
  • Songs

  • "Blue Flame", a 1981 song by Randy Crawford, Joe Sample, Will Jennings
  • "Blue Flame", a 1939 song by Woody Herman, Joe Bishop, Corday, Noble
  • "Blue Flame", a song by Joe Jackson
  • Blue Flame (film)

    Blue Flame is a 1993 independent sci-fi film starring former child actress Kerri Green as one of two seductive aliens who live inside the head of a renegade police officer.

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    Blue Flame

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