THE RED BARON' 40 YEARS ON

摘要

Shortly after winning his first unlimited air race championship in 1965, Darryl Greenamyer began searching the country for Lockheed F-104 parts so he could build a hybrid Starfighter and go after the absolute world altitude record held by the Soviet Union, but first he'd chase another speed record. Darryl explained, "I thought if I used the airplane to break the 3km speed record held by the Navy, I could raise a sponsor for the altitude record". At the time the low-altitude 3km closed-course speed record was 902.769mph, set on 28 August 1961 by US Navy Lts Huntington Hardisty and Earl De Esch in a McDonnell Douglas F4H-1 Phantom during Project 'Sageburner'.