Jessi Combs, television Host and Racecar driver, Dies in strive at Land pace document-Ms. Combs died at the same time as operating a effective jet-formed vehicle as she sought to assert a world report.
Jessi Combs sitting in the cockpit of the automobile filming a industrial.CreditCreditNorth American Eagle
Jessi Combs, a television host and expert racer, died on Tuesday in Oregon at the same time as trying to set a world land velocity file.
Ms. Combs’s demise turned into confirmed in a assertion by the Harney County Sheriff’s office, which answered to the scene of the crash in the Alvord barren region in southeastern Oregon on Tuesday afternoon. The workplace said it did now not yet realize the purpose of the crash.
In a announcement supplied to Jalopnik, the automobile booklet, and others, her own family stated that Ms. Combs, 39, had been driving the North American Eagle, a fifty six-foot-lengthy jetlike automobile able to generating over 45,500 horsepower. The crash happened on a dry lake mattress.
“people that loved her and observed her have become own family, all bonded collectively by using adventure and ardour,” the assertion said. “Her fans adored her, and she or he lived to encourage them.”
Ms. Combs was a lifelong racing fan whose love of vehicles and the game led her into tv, with a quick run of appearances on “MythBusters,” the popular technology program, and continuing hosting roles on “Xtreme 4x4,” a show about off-roading, and “Overhaulin’,” a display about revamping cars.
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From left, Chip Foose, Jessi Combs and Chris Jacobs at some stage in a panel for “Overhaulin’" at the television Critics association summer time press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2012.CreditPhil Mccarten/Reuters
On Twitter on Wednesday, Adam Savage, a host of “MythBusters,” praised Ms. Combs as a “first-rate” builder, engineer, driver, fabricator and technology communicator, who “strove ordinary to encourage others through her prodigious instance.”
“She became additionally a colleague, and we are lesser for her absence,” he delivered. “My heart goes out to her family.”
After graduating from a Wyoming technical university with a diploma in automotive fabrication, Ms. Combs located her way onto “Overhaulin’” after which “Xtreme 4x4,” consistent with a biography on her non-public internet site. In 2007, she suffered a spinal harm in an coincidence concerning a huge piece of machinery, after which she determined to leave that display. Two years later, she began appearing on “MythBusters.”
Jessi Combs, a television host and expert racer, died on Tuesday in Oregon at the same time as trying to set a world land velocity file.
Ms. Combs’s demise turned into confirmed in a assertion by the Harney County Sheriff’s office, which answered to the scene of the crash in the Alvord barren region in southeastern Oregon on Tuesday afternoon. The workplace said it did now not yet realize the purpose of the crash.
In a announcement supplied to Jalopnik, the automobile booklet, and others, her own family stated that Ms. Combs, 39, had been driving the North American Eagle, a fifty six-foot-lengthy jetlike automobile able to generating over 45,500 horsepower. The crash happened on a dry lake mattress.
“people that loved her and observed her have become own family, all bonded collectively by using adventure and ardour,” the assertion said. “Her fans adored her, and she or he lived to encourage them.”
Ms. Combs was a lifelong racing fan whose love of vehicles and the game led her into tv, with a quick run of appearances on “MythBusters,” the popular technology program, and continuing hosting roles on “Xtreme 4x4,” a show about off-roading, and “Overhaulin’,” a display about revamping cars.
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From left, Chip Foose, Jessi Combs and Chris Jacobs at some stage in a panel for “Overhaulin’" at the television Critics association summer time press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2012.CreditPhil Mccarten/Reuters
On Twitter on Wednesday, Adam Savage, a host of “MythBusters,” praised Ms. Combs as a “first-rate” builder, engineer, driver, fabricator and technology communicator, who “strove ordinary to encourage others through her prodigious instance.”
“She became additionally a colleague, and we are lesser for her absence,” he delivered. “My heart goes out to her family.”
After graduating from a Wyoming technical university with a diploma in automotive fabrication, Ms. Combs located her way onto “Overhaulin’” after which “Xtreme 4x4,” consistent with a biography on her non-public internet site. In 2007, she suffered a spinal harm in an coincidence concerning a huge piece of machinery, after which she determined to leave that display. Two years later, she began appearing on “MythBusters.”