Buckeye Bullet Speak
Back Up a Record	Setting a new LSR by making a second run, that when averaged with the first run, is higher than the old record.
Buckeye Bullet	World's fastest electric car designed and built entirely by students at The Ohio State University
The Bullet	The Buckeye Bullet
Battmeter	Battery image on homepage created by team member Kim Stevens to show fundraising progress
The Rocket	Nickname given to Buckeye Bullet driver Roger "The Rocket" Schroer by his SCCA driving buddy Terry Whitlock.
Giorgio	Dr. Giorgio Rizzoni: The Ford Motor Company Chair in Electromechanical Systems; Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering; Director, Center for Automotive Research, The Ohio State University; and Faculty Advisor to The Buckeye Bullet Student Project
CAR	Ohio State's Center for Automotive Research and Intelligent Transportation, home of the Buckeye Bullet
Jarbidge	Old mining town near Wendover where the last U.S. stagecoach robbery occurred in 1913.  (Source; Wendover Phone Book)
Junkyard Wars	The Bullet's carrier
Great White	White truck that push starts the Bullet
Bonneville Salt Flats	The Bonneville Salt Flats are a 121 km² (47 mi²) salt flat in northwestern Utah. A remnant of the ancient Lake Bonneville, the Salt Flats are now public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.  More . . . The Salt Flats are perhaps most famous for their use as a raceway for high-speed race cars, which have achieved speeds in excess of 600 miles per hour (1000 kilometers per hour). Several movies have been filmed at the salt flats, including portions of Independence Day (movie). Click here for more information . . .
Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway	"World's Fastest Speedway" located near Wendover, UT. where land speed racing takes place.
Bonneville Speed Week	Week in August when US land speed records are set
The Salt	Slang for Bonneville Salt Flats
Salt in Your Blood	Compliment that you have been accepted into the close-knit salt flat racing community
Lake Bonneville	Twelve inches of salt water about one-half mile wide through which everyone must drive to get out onto The Salt.
Ancient Lake Bonneville	Lake Bonneville was a prehistoric, 19,500 square mile pluvial lake that covered much of North America's Great Basin region. Most of the territory it covered was in present-day Utah, though parts of the lake extended into present-day Idaho and Nevada. Formed about 32,000 years ago, it existed until about 16,800 years ago, when most of the contents of the lake were released through the Red Rock Pass in Idaho. Many of the unique geological characteristics of the Great Basin are due to the effects of the lake.
Frankenstein	Old salt racing car stuck in mud 12 miles out at Bonneville
Painless Pete	Wendover Dentist
Impound	Roped-off area on The Salt where vehicles that qualified for a new USLSR are kept over night to run again in the morning.
5.A  Special Construction Category	The Bullet's general Bonneville racing category.  "The pinnacle of the straightaway racer's art . . . all-out straightaway vehicles . . . Innovation is unlimited." SCTA 2004 Rules & Records for Dry Lake Speed Trials Handbook
III/E	The Bullet's Bonneville Car Class.  Officially, 5.A.3/E, "Vehicles using electrical power as the sole means of propulsion . . . Class III, 2201 lb. and over (1,000kg)" SCTA
Lakester	Long narrow LSR race car where the four wheels are completely exposed.
Streamliner	Long narrow LSR race car where the four wheels are completely enclosed. The Buckeye Bullet is an electric streamliner.
Malcolm Campbell & The Bluebird	Campbell, Sir Malcolm, 1885–1949, English automobile and speedboat racer. A racing enthusiast from boyhood, Campbell set many speed records for motorcycles, airplanes, automobiles, and motorboats and in 1931 was knighted for his accomplishments. Driving his famed automobile Bluebird at Bonneville Flats, Utah, in 1935, Sir Malcolm was the first to reach the 300 mi (483 km) per hr mark. He then turned to speedboat racing and in 1939 set a new record of 141 mi per hr. Donald Campbell was his son.
Gary Gabelich & The Blue Flame	The Blue Flame was the high-performing, ultra high-speed, rocket-powered vehicle which achieved the world speed record on Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on October 28 1970. The record 1065.8 km/h lasted for 13 years and was set as an average of achieved speed in both ways (617.601 + 627.207= 617.602 miles/h). The driver, Gary Gabelich, was of Croatian origin and native of San Pedro, California.
Andy Green	Squadron Leader Andy Green (born 1962), a British RAF pilot, is the current holder of the land speed record and the first person to break the sound barrier on land. On September 25, 1997 in ThrustSSC he beat the previous record in Black Rock Desert, USA, reaching a speed of 714.144 mph (1149.30 km/h). On October 15, he reached 763.035 mph (1227.99 km/h), the first supersonic record (Mach 1.016).
LSR	Land Speed Record. The fastest anyone has ever driven a land vehicle in a given category (i.e., The Bullet's category = Electric Vehicles above 2,200 pounds)
ELSR	Electric Land Speed Record set by electric-powered cars
USLSR	United States Land Speed Record = Average of two runs where the first run must exceed the old record and the car is quarantined on the Salt overnight between runs. Timing for the record is done in the same measured mile in both runs.  Timing and Tech Inspection by SCTA.
WELSR	World Electric Land Speed Record
Out the Backdoor	Exiting the last timed mile
Pit Area	Temporary home to 300-500 LSR racing teams located four miles out on The Salt.  The Pit Area is one-mile long and four rows of teams wide with a three-lane roadway between each row.  The Pits are located at the four-mile maker of the seven-mile long LSR course.
Save the Salt	Campaign to preserve the Salt Flats
FIA	Federation Internationale de L'Automobile A governing body over World Land Speed Records.
Salt Rats	Racers and spectators who camp out on The  Salt overnight.
Salt Spiders	When you are bitten by a "salt spider", you become infected with salt flats racing.
SCTA -BNI	Southern California Timing Association and Bonneville Nationals, Inc.   BNI is the governing and sanctioning body over land speed records set at Bonneville.  SCTA certifies all land speed records set at Bonneville.
Throw out the Laundry	Deploy the parachutes
TRC	TRC, Inc., The world's largest independent automotive testing facility in East Liberty, OH where the Buckeye Bullet is tested.
ThrustSSC	Jet powered car driven by Andy Green that holds the all time land speed record 763 MPH.  Andy visited the Buckeye Bullet Team at Bonneville October 2004.
Wendover, UT and West Wendover, NV	Nearest towns to Bonneville on NV/UT border in Mountain Time Zone (Two hours behind Ohio)
Historic Wendover Airfield	Airfield where Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr and the 509th Composite Group trained before dropping the first atomic bomb on Japan in WWII.  Read Las Vegas Review Journal story HIROSHIMA: 60 YEARS LATER: WENDOVER'S SECRET, at http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Aug-06-Sat-2005/news/26902506.html
WOW!	Note on bottom of SCTA computerized time sheet from fastest mile ever recorded from an electric car, The Buckeye Bullet, 308.317 MPH, Speed Week, Bonneville Salt Flats, August 16, 2004.