Farewell Too Jessi Combs
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It takes a certain level of craziness to drive over 600mph, even more, to attempt a land speed record.
Julia Lapalme
Farewell Too Jessi Combs

When people called Jessi Combs crazy, she embraced the term. The 39-year-old South Dakota native had an insatiable thirst for speed, thrills, and disproving stereotypes. Piloting a 52,000-horsepower vehicle built from a highly-modified Lockheed F-104A-10 Starfighter jet plane that rolled on four cast-aluminum wheels, Combs was aiming to reach 619 mph or more.

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