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Friday, 17 August 2012


                                   LAND VEHICLES




Category Speed Speed Vehicle Operator Date
(km/h) (mph)
Land speed record 1,228 763 ThrustSSC United Kingdom
 Andy Green
15-Oct-97
Wheel-driven land speed record 737.794 458.444 Vesco Turbinator United States
 Don Vesco
18-Oct-01
Motorcycle land speed record 605.697 376.363 Top Oil-Ack Attack United States
      Rocky Robinson
25-Sep-10
Diesel-powered land speed record 563.995 350.452 JCB DieselMax United Kingdom
 Andy Green
23-Aug-06
Electric-powered land speed record 495.14 307.666 Buckeye Bullet 2.5 United States
 Roger Schroer
24-Aug-10
Solar-powered land speed record 88.8 55.18 Sunswift IV Australia
 Barton Mawer
07-Jan-11
Wind-powered land speed record 202.9 126.1 Ecotricity Greenbird United Kingdom
Richard Jenkins
26-Mar-09
Human powered land speed record 133.28 82.819 Varna Tempest Canada
 Sam Wittingham
18-Sep-09
Tracked vehicle land speed record 82.23 51.1 CVR(T) Scorpion Tank   2002
















                                         RAIL VEHICLES


Category Speed Speed Vehicle Operator Date
(km/h) (mph)
 Unmanned (rocket sled) 10,400 6,462   (unmanned) 30-Apr-03
Manned (rocket sled) 1,017 635 Sonic Wind No. 1 United States
 John Stapp
10-Dec-54
Maglev train 581 361 JR-Maglev MLX01
Japan
02-Dec-03
Wheeled train 574.8 357 LGV Est
France
03-Apr-07




















                                               AIR CRAFT



Category Speed Speed Vehicle Pilot Date  
(km/h) (mph)
Rocket-powered aircraft 7,258 4,510 North American X-15 United States
 William J. Knight
03-Oct-67
Unmanned air-breathing craft 12,144 7,546 NASA X-43 (unmanned) 16-Nov-04
Manned air-breathing craft 3,530 2,194 Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird United States
 Eldon W. Joersz
28-Jul-76
Propeller-driven aircraft 870 541 Tupolev Tu-114 Soviet Union
 Ivan Soukhomline
1960  
Piston-engined propeller-driven aircraft 850.1 528.33 Grumman F8F BearcatRare Bear (N777L) United States
 Lyle Shelton
21-Aug-89
Helicopter 401 249.1 Westland Lynx 800 G-LYNX United Kingdom
 John Egginton
11-Aug-86
Glider (sailplane) 306.8 190.6 Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4DM Germany
 Klaus Ohlmann and
22-Dec-06  
Argentina
 Matias Garcia Mazzaro
Human-powered aircraft 32 19.8 MIT Monarch B United States
 Frank Scarabino
01-May-84


















                                        WATER CRAFT


Category Speed Speed Speed Vehicle Operator Date
(knots) (km/h) (mph)
Water speed record 275.98 511.13 317.596 Spirit of Australia Australia
 Ken Warby
08-Oct-78
Propeller-driven water speed record 229.92 425.815 264.589 Problem Child Dale Ishimaru 21-Apr-06
Human-powered watercraft 18.5 34.3 21.3 Decavitator United States
 Mark Drela
27-Oct-91
Human-powered submarine 8.035 14.9 9.2 Omer 5 Canada
 É.T.S.
2007
Wind-powered watercraft 55.65 103.06 64.04 Kitesurfer United States
 Rob Douglas
28-Oct-10
Underwater speed record There is no official speed record for underwater craft, due to the secretive nature of military vessels. In 1968, a Russian November class submarine reportedly tracked an American carrier group traveling at 31 knots (57 km/h or 36 mph). Unmanned torpedo speed claims range from 70 to 200knots (80 mph to 230 mph).



















                                         SPACE CRAFT


Category Speed Speed Vehicle Crew Date
(km/h) (mph)
Manned spacecraft 39,896 24,790 Apollo 10 United States
 Thomas Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene Cernan
26-May-69
Earth-reentering spacecraft 46,440 28,856 Stardust probe (unmanned) 15-Jan-06
Earth-escaping spacecraft 58,536 36,373 New Horizons probe (unmanned) 19-Jan-06





















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