A speed record is a world record for speed by a person, animal, or vehicle. The function of speed record is to record the speed of moving animate objects...
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The land speed record (LSR) or absolute land speed record is the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land. By a 1964 agreement between...
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The world unlimited water speed record is the officially recognised fastest speed achieved by a water-borne vehicle, irrespective of propulsion method...
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This is a list of the world's record-breaking top speeds achieved by street-legal production cars (as opposed to concept cars or modified cars). For the...
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The world record for a conventional wheeled passenger train is held by a modified French TGV high-speed (with standard equipment) code named V150, set...
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An air speed record is the highest airspeed attained by an aircraft of a particular class. The rules for all official aviation records are defined by...
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The motorcycle land-speed record is the fastest speed achieved by a motorcycle on land. It is standardized as the speed over a course of fixed length...
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is a list of speed records for various types of vehicles. This list only presents the single greatest speed achieved in each broad record category; for...
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Speed sailing records are sanctioned, since 1972, by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC). Records are measured either by average speed over...
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Underwater speed record include records for submarines, autonomous underwater vehicles, and torpedoes. As these are typically for military vehicles, most...
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The TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse, French for "High-Speed Train") holds a series of land speed records for rail vehicles achieved by SNCF, the French national...
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Speed Record is a live album (and first full-length release) by American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released in January 1982 by New Alliance Records....
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authorities. Most records have been completed under special rules and circumstances, such as being motor-paced, on terrain advantageous for speed (such as downhill...
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The World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) was founded in 1972, initially to ratify records at the inaugural Weymouth Speed Week held every year since...
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of the other object." Air speed List of vehicle speed records Typical projectile speeds Speedometer V speeds Look up speed or swiftness in Wiktionary...
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Transcontinental flight (redirect from Cross-America flight air speed record)
For the junior record only in-flight time is counted at a certain speed For the women's record, only in-flight time is counted World record Dawn-to-dusk...
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High-speed rail High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilizing trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail...
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Bonneville Speedway (redirect from Speed Week)
motor sports. It is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed records. The Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track is listed on the National Register...
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verified speed record. As trains can have multiple configurations on the same service, service name is used as an identifier. Railway speed record ICE 3M...
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Macchi M.C.72 (section Speed record)
Aeronautica. The M.C. 72 held the world speed record for all aircraft for five years. In 1933 and 1934 it set world speed records for piston engine-powered seaplanes;...
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The British land speed record is the fastest land speed achieved by a vehicle in the United Kingdom, as opposed to one on water or in the air. It is standardised...
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Shinkansen (redirect from High-speed rail in Japan)
setting a world speed record of 145 km/h (90 mph) for a narrow gauge train when JNR leased a trainset in order to perform high-speed tests. This train...
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This list of speed skating records is an overview of the records currently held in various speed skating events, as ratified by the International Skating...
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metal fabricator. She set a women's land speed class record (four wheels) in 2013 and broke her own record in 2016. She was known as "the fastest woman...
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Supersonic speed is the speed of an object that exceeds the speed of sound (Mach 1). For objects traveling in dry air of a temperature of 20 °C (68 °F)...
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Donald Campbell (category Land speed record people)
March 1921 – 4 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s...
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Babs was the land speed record car built and driven by John Parry-Thomas. It was powered by a 27-litre Liberty aero-engine. Babs began as 'Chitty 4', one...
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Koenigsegg CCR (section Speed record)
driven by Loris Bicocchi to a top speed of 387.87 km/h (241.01 mph), breaking the fastest production car record (if "production car" is defined accordingly)...
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Maglev (category Experimental and prototype high-speed trains)
infrastructure, and use more energy at high speeds. Maglev trains have set several speed records. The train speed record of 603 km/h (375 mph) was set by the...
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Record Breakers: World of Speed were a line of battery operated Mini 4WD manufactured by Hasbro in the late 1980s to 1990s, originally in Japan and then...
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