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Revision as of 10:27, 26 September 2012

The following is a list of speed records for various categories of vehicles.

Land vehicles

ThrustSSC, which holds the land speed record as of 24 May 2011
Main article: Land speed record
Category Speed
(km/h) 		Speed
(mph) 		Vehicle Operator Date References
Land speed record 1,228 763 ThrustSSC United Kingdom Andy Green 15 Oct 1997 [1]
Wheel-driven land speed record 737.794 458.444 Vesco Turbinator United States Don Vesco 18 Oct 2001 [2]
Motorcycle land speed record 605.697 376.363 Top Oil-Ack Attack United States Rocky Robinson 25 Sep 2010 [3]
Diesel-powered land speed record 563.995 350.452 JCB DieselMax United Kingdom Andy Green 23 Aug 2006 [2]
Electric-powered land speed record 495.140 307.666 Buckeye Bullet 2.5 United States Roger Schroer 24 Aug 2010 [2]
Solar-powered land speed record 88.8 55.18 Sunswift IV Australia Barton Mawer 07 Jan 2011 [4]
Wind-powered land speed record 202.9 126.1 Ecotricity Greenbird United Kingdom Richard Jenkins 26 Mar 2009 [5]
Human powered land speed record 133.28 82.819 Varna Tempest Canada Sam Whittingham 18 Sep 2009 [6]
Tracked vehicle land speed record 82.23 51.1 CVR(T) Scorpion Tank 2002 [7]
Lunar Roving Vehicle land speed record 17.0 10.5 Lunar Roving Vehicle United States Eugene Cernan 1972 [8]

Railed vehicles

Lt. Col. John P. Stapp rides the rocket sled at Edwards Air Force Base
Main article: Land speed record for railed vehicles
Category Speed
(km/h) 		Speed
(mph) 		Vehicle Operator Date References
Manned (rocket sled) 1,017 635 Sonic Wind No. 1 United States John Stapp 10 Dec 1954
Maglev train 581 361 JR-Maglev MLX01 Japan 2 Dec 2003
Wheeled train 574.8 357 LGV Est France 3 Apr 2007

Aircraft

Main article: Flight airspeed record
North American X-15, the fastest rocket-powered aircraft
Category Speed
(km/h) 		Speed
(mph) 		Vehicle Pilot Date References
Rocket-powered aircraft 7,258 4,510 North American X-15 United States William J. Knight 03 Oct 1967 [9]
Manned air-breathing craft 3,530 2,194 Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird United States Eldon W. Joersz 28 Jul 1976 [10]
Propeller-driven aircraft 870 541 Tupolev Tu-114 Soviet Union Ivan Soukhomline 00 Jan 1960 [11][12]
Piston-engined propeller-driven aircraft 850.1 528.33 Grumman F8F Bearcat Rare Bear (N777L) United States Lyle Shelton 21 Aug 1989 [13]
Helicopter 401.0 249.1 Westland Lynx 800 G-LYNX United Kingdom John Egginton 11 Aug 1986 [14]
Glider (sailplane) 306.8 190.6 Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4DM Germany Klaus Ohlmann and
Argentina Matias Garcia Mazzaro		 22 Dec 2006 [15]
Human-powered aircraft 32 19.8 MIT Monarch B United States Frank Scarabino 01 May 1984 [16]

Watercraft

Main article: Water speed record
Category Speed
(knots) 		Speed
(km/h) 		Speed
(mph) 		Vehicle Operator Date References
Water speed record 275.98 511.13 317.596 Spirit of Australia Australia Ken Warby 08 Oct 1978
Propeller-driven water speed record 229.92 425.815 264.589 Problem Child Dale Ishimaru 21 Apr 2006 [17]
Human-powered watercraft 18.5 34.3 21.3 Decavitator United States Mark Drela 27 Oct 1991
Human-powered submarine 8.035 14.9 9.2 Omer 5 Canada É.T.S. 00 Jan 2007
Wind-powered watercraft 55.65 103.06 64.04 Kitesurfer United States Rob Douglas 28 Okt 2010
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 200 knots (80 mph to 230 mph).[citation needed] [18]

Spacecraft

Apollo 10 command module Charlie Brown, the fastest manned vehicle relative to the Earth

Speed records relative to the Earth

Category Speed
(km/h) 		Speed
(mph) 		Vehicle Crew Date References
Manned spacecraft 39,896 24,790 Apollo 10 United States Thomas Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene Cernan 26 May 1969
Earth-reentering spacecraft 46,440 28,856 Stardust probe (unmanned) 15 Jan 2006
Earth-escaping spacecraft 58,536 36,373 New Horizons probe (unmanned) 19 Jan 2006

Speed records relative to the Sun

Category Speed
(km/h) 		Speed
(mph) 		Vehicle Crew Date References
Speed relative to the sun 241,350 149,967 Helios 2 probe (unmanned) 17 Apr 1976 [19]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "FIA Records List Cat. C" (PDF). Federation Internationale de L'automobile. Retrieved 1997-11-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ a b c "FIA Records List Cat. A" (PDF). Federation Internationale de L'automobile. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
  3. ^ New FIM World Record - Bonneville Raceway, Utah (USA), FIM 2010
  4. ^ [http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/01/10/solar.car.world.record/ Solar-powered car smashes speed record, Retrieved January 10, 2011
  5. ^ "Official measurement report for 2009 North American Land Sailing Association record".
  6. ^ "Overview of IHPVA speed records".
  7. ^ http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_fastest_tank_today
  8. ^ http://www.hq.nasa.gov%2Falsj%2Fa17%2FA17_LunarRover2.pdf&ei=CkclUOOvDovo8QSEkICwDw&usg=AFQjCNGod_0E7mDKoiV5th8Q7nP3xdwnGA&sig2=WMVMf6O_YvD4tvdNZk7eVA
  9. ^ American X-Vehicles: An Inventory X-1 to X-50, SP-2000-4531 - June 2003; NASA online PDF Monograph p.23
  10. ^ FAI web-site - Accessed 27 Jan 2011
  11. ^ Tu_114 data from Aerospaceweb Access date: 26 May 2008
  12. ^ "FAI official database" Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Retrieved: 10 January 2012
  13. ^ National Aeronautic Association Certificate of Record - Crew Access date: 05 March 2010
  14. ^ FAI web-site - Accessed 27 Jan 2011
  15. ^ FAI web-site - Accessed 25 Jan 2011
  16. ^ average speed
  17. ^ [1][dead link]
  18. ^ Tyler, Patrick (1986). Running Critical. New York: Harper&Row. pp. 23–26, 34–46.
  19. ^ Aerospaceweb.org - Accessed 22 Feb 2012


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