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Rosco McGlashan
Australian drag racing and land speed record-holder
Rosco McGlashanOAM was born on 23 August [1] in Subiaco, Western Australia. Rosco is an Australian drag racing champion, who currently holds the Australian land speed record at &#;mph (&#;km/h).[2] This record was set on the 27 March on the dry salt flats of Lake Gairdner, South Australia, &#;km (&#;mi) northwest of Adelaide.
Early Years & Racing Career
Rosco left his home and school at the age of twelve to pursue his racing career! His first competitive drive was in a Pro-Stock drag car at Surfers Paradise drag strip, when the professional driver failed to show up. Rosco bettered the professional drivers' best quarter-mile time. He was the nominated driver from then on.
Krazy Horse
This was a drag bike with a V8 engine from a Pro Stock drag car. It was originally built by Wally Pushkey and his team and ridden by Wally. It had a cu. in. Ford V8, with direct drive (no clutch) and Wally and Rosco would rev it up to 5, rpm and rock it off a stand and Krazy Horse would leave rubber up the whole quarter-mile.
Rosco's best time was seconds at mph ( km/h).
Rocket Bike
Rosco built a hydrogen peroxide rocket bike in / It was never sanctioned to race and was banned by ANDRA, for being too dangerous.
Rocket Go-Kart
McGlashan also drove a rocket-powered go-kart to miles per hour (&#;km/h) in at a race track near Thousand Oaks, California.
It was owned by USA drag racing driver "Fearless Fred" Goeske. Rosco bought it from Fred and brought it back to Australia. It was also banned by ANDRA, but the run in the USA is still the fastest a go-kart has ever run the 1/4 mile.[3][4][5]
However, this record is not recognized by Guinness world records, which has the go-kart record listed at mph ( km/h), less than half the speed achieved by Rosco.[6]
Aussie Invader 1
Aussie Invader 1 was initially owned by Ken Warby, who holds the World water speed record of knots ( km/h; mph), set on Blowering Dam on 8 October Aussie Invader 1 was originally named 'US Invader' when Ken owned it.
Rosco bought it from Ken and renamed it to Aussie Invader. It later was renamed again to Aussie Invader 1, when Rosco knew he would have other Aussie Invader jet cars.
It was powered by a Westinghouse J34 jet engine with a purpose-built afterburner. The engine was originally fitted to the Lockheed Neptune as a JATO engine producing about 6, lbs of thrust.
Aussie Invader 1 set the unofficial Tasmanian land speed record in of km/h ( mph) in This happened at a promotional charity exhibition for the Lions Club of Hobart.
Aussie Invader 2
The construction of Aussie Invader 2 started in The car was powered by a 36,&#;hp Atar jet engine from a Mirage jet fighter.
It took four years to build and McGlashan's first attempt to set the Australian land speed record in Aussie Invader 2 was in December However, rain and poor salt/track conditions, meant they were unsuccessful.
Rosco and the team returned in March and broke Donald Campbell's record set at Lake Eyre in After setting the Australian land speed record, Rosco and the team went after the world record, but the water had reduced the track length, and at close to mph ( km/h), McGlashan found they did not have enough track to stop, so fasters speeds were out of the question.
Once again they decided to pack up and return the following year, hoping for improved conditions.
The Aussie Invader team returned in February to Lake Gairdner for an assault on the &#;mph (1,&#;km/h) world land speed record, held by Richard Noble. Once again the salt surface was poor, with the course being very wet in places.
McGlashan ran off course and hit the metal timing stand at close to &#;mph. McGlashan was lucky to walk away but the car was destroyed.
Biography channel caddyshack Aussie Invader 3 [ edit ]. Aussie Invader II was a write-off. Download as PDF Printable version. Rosco's best time was 9.Aussie Invader 3
McGlashan then built his next car Aussie Invader 3, utilising another ATAR engine from a Mirage jet fighter. This car was better aerodynamically, and more powerful. McGlashan hoped to challenge Andy Green and Craig Breedlove to be the first to Mach 1 on land, but in again the salt conditions were too bad for high speed record runs.
On 15 October , Andy Green reached miles per hour (1,&#;km/h), the first supersonic record (Mach ). This made Aussie Invader 3 redundant.
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So a new car was planned.
Rosco did get a chance to drive Aussie Invader 3 at Lake Gairdner in March , trying to better his Australian record. He did reach a peak speed of mph (1, km/h), however poor salt and weather prevented a return run, so no new Australian record was recorded.
Aussie Invader 3 is the fastest car ever to be driven on a salt lake with solid (tyreless) wheels.
In McGlashan sold Aussie Invader 3 to raise money for the Aussie Invader 5R project.[7]
Aussie Invader 4
Like Aussie Invader 1, Aussie Invader 4 was powered by a J34 Westinghouse jet engine with a purpose-built afterburner and was capable of 0 – mph ( km/h) in about five seconds. It was completed in to race alongside Aussie Invader 1, which Rosco still raced at drag meetings, in between building and running his land speed cars.
Aussie Invader 5R
After Thrust SSC went Mach ( mph), McGlashan knew he needed a car with a lot more power. He started planning to build a rocket-powered car capable of smashing the sound barrier and achieving a 1, miles per hour (1,&#;km/h).
Biography channel jackie robinson You can't help but wonder what this machine would have done if allowed to have it's head Measuring 18 meters in length and 3 meters in height, the bright blue "Aussie Invader 5R" resembled a sleek, rocket on wheels. Download as PDF Printable version. He was revived and went on to break many motor racing and land speed records.Construction on the car started in , after preliminary planning and design work, which took close to a decade before the build could start. Work on building Aussie Invader 5R has now reached the end of phase 1 (completed car with systems in place). Phase 2 is underway, trying to raise funding to test and fine-tune the 62,pound thrust rocket engine, which is equivalent to about , hp, about the power of Formula One cars.
Aussie Invader 5R will be the biggest and most powerful land speed car McGlashan has built.
Biography channel ghost kit News reached them that Andy Green had achieved a supersonic land speed record of mph. Campbell's "Bluebird" turbine engine ignited a passion in McGlashan to design and build a car that would surpass Campbell's legendary land speed record of mph. Paolo Barilla. Ma Qinghua.It is 16m (52ft) in length and 3m (10ft) high at the tail fin. It will weigh tonnes dry (unfuelled) and a massive tonnes when loaded with propellants (fuel and oxidizer). It will burn around tonnes of propellants in about 22 seconds on a full high-speed run. It will take about miles ( km) to get up to speed and run the measured and timed mile/kilometre.
It will take about 8 miles ( km) to stop.
Rosco mcglashan biography channel The current land speed record stands at 1, kilometres per hour but Roscoe McGlashan wants to go even faster and he has a rocket-powered dream machine that might just let him do it. His first motor racing break came in when he was given the drive in a Pro Stock Drag vehicle. At the age of 12, he was awestruck by the famed British racer Donald Campbell's visit to Australia. So a new car was planned.The car appeared at two Perth-based motor shows after externally the car looked complete in June Phase 2 is underway, raising money for the rocket motor and propellant testing.
Additional Information
A lot of the initial design and calculations for Aussie Invader 5R's performance were carried out by Peter Beck in , who at the time was starting a company called Rocket Lab.
Peter and Rocket Lab have gone on to do a lot of work for NASA.
On 7 January , Rosco McGlashan's memoir was published by Mark J Read. The book is called ROSCO The Fastest Aussie on Earth.[8] This book tells Rosco's life story from a tough childhood to a champion drag racer and land speed record holder. It has a lot of information about Rosco's life, cars and racing career.
Awards and Honours
- Awarded the Order of Australia Medal in by the Queen of England for his services to motorsport and for setting a new Australian Land Speed Record.
- Given the “Premiers Award”, Western Australia by the premier of the state Richard Court MLA in
- Given the ‘Key to the City’ of Perth, Western Australia by the Premier of the state Richard Court MLA in
- International Jet Dragster Competition Winner , ,
- Entered in the Australian Roll of Honour by the Governor General Sir Michael Jefferies in as “The Fastest Aussie On Earth.”
- Confederation of Australian Motor Sport award
- Registered motivational speaker with International Celebrity Management Australia.
- Letters of Endorsement for our project from Australia's ex-Prime Minister John Howard and Defence Senator Robert Hill.
- In Rosco was inducted into the RAC's WA Walk of Fame, only one of 17 West Australians to be given that honour.
- Rosco was great friends with US Navy rocket engineer Robert Truax and featured in his life story documentary.