'Fastest Woman on Earth' proves Jessi Combs was not like most of us:
In the process she connected with Ed Shadle and his San Diego-based team that had created the North American Eagle—essentially a 60-year-old Lockheed F-104 jet fighter shorn of its wings and fitted with wheels—to try to take the 763-mph land speed record from the British. Created in 1998, the team made slow but steady progress and set its intermediate goal as taking the unofficial 512-mph women's land speed record set in 1976 .
For Combs, being involved in such an effort, as well as maintaining her TV appearances and high social media profile, clearly required an extreme commitment. Combs acknowledges as much, concluding that having a more normal life and a family seem unlikely for someone with her ambitions, especially as a woman in what is largely a man's world.
I would have liked more technical explanation about the North American Eagle and the details of the various runs, but then I'm an engineering nerd. But watching the speeds increase during the years spent running at the Alvord Desert in southeastern Oregon gives you an idea of what a long and painstaking process it is to achieve a record. Especially when your ambitions are delayed when weather conditions render the desert surface unsuitable in some years.
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