No tricks. No tyre tracks. Come on, you can do better that that.The Verneukpan speedtrack with a DAF truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQeQGVVGUI
Verneukpan is a short drive of 115km south from the town of Kenhardt on the way to Cape Town. This is a vast dry salt pan which is ideal for aerotow operations as you can launch and land in any direction you choose. It was used in 1929 by Malcolm Campbell to set the then land speed record of 350km/h in his Bluebird. The track that he compacted on the pan is still visible today. The surface is pretty rough with rocks and brush over a great portion of the pan.
Verneukpan is the undisputed ultimate kiting destinations in South Africa. Verneukpan is a 100% flat surface claimed to be a dried up lake estimated 57 km long and 11 km wide.
Verneukpan is the place where South African landspeed record holder and former fighter pilot Johan Jacobs died tragically on 27 June 2006 when his jet car, Edge, went out of control and flipped while travelling at close to 500km/h during a practice run for an attempt to break the 24-second world record for the standing mile over 1,64km.
The vast salt plain, back in the late 1920s, saw Malcolm Campbell fail to break the world land speed record when the coarse surface damaged his tyres and in the early 1950s Cape Town’s Vic Proctor try for the world motorcycle record on a Vincent HRD Black Lightning but crash at around 160km/h.
The wide-open spaces of Verneukpan offer ideal opportunities for parasailing and the many outlook posts is ideal for birdwatching.
http://www.greenkalahari.com/attract.html
No tricks. No tyre tracks. Come on, you can do better that that.Vernuekpan has been an item of interest if mine for a number of years. I first read about the region and the people from the works of Lauren van der Post and his book, Heart of the Hunter, in which he described the culture of the San people, known as the Hottentots or pigmies...possibly the oldest culture/people on earth...
Maybe you might think about what came before in that region, before you talk about land-speed records and flying kites.