Allan Abbott
Allan Abbott is an American medical doctor and professor at the University of Southern California .
He became known in the early 1970s for his successful attempts to break the world speed record for bicycles . In 1973, he reached behind a vehicle with windshield mounting on the Bonneville Flats in the Great Salt Desert in Utah , near Salt Lake City 138.674 mph (more than 223 km / h ). The world record set thereby lasted until 1985, when John Howard reached 152.2 mph at the same point. Abbott used a bicycle with a reinforced frame and for this record motorcycle - tire ; the front chainring was 41 cm in diameter. The wheel was pulled up to a speed of 150 mph by the car in front, in whose slipstream Abbott was driving, because the large gear ratio made driving at low speeds almost impossible.
Abbott passed the experience that Abbott made with this record on to the later record team from 1995 around Gordon McCall and driver Fred Rompelberg . This record reached a speed of 166.9 mph (268.8 km / h).
Abbott later constructed the so-called flying fish together with Alec Brooks - a bicycle with floating bodies in the form of a catamaran , which plows through the water with muscle power at over 30 km / h and uses its mini-wings like an airplane, using their dynamic buoyancy .
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Land Speed Record ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Dr. Allan Abbott with his record bike ( Memento from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
Web links
- Illustrated description of the "flying fish"
- Video with the flying fish
- Photo with Dr. Abbott and his record-breaking vehicle
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abbott, Allan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abbott, Allan V. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1970 |