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VARIOUS FAST VEHICLES

Added on: 11th Feb 2016

 

HUMAN POWERED VEHICLE

VeloX3

In September 2013, J.B Bowier, a Dutch cyclist, reached a speed of

133.78 km/h (83.13 mph) on a special recumbent bicycle named

VeloX3. He achieved the speed over a 200m (660ft) stretch of road

in Battle Mountain, Nevada, after a run-up of 8km (5 miles).

 

 

ROCKET-POWERED CAR

Thrust SCC

Thrust Supersonic Car (commonly known just as Thrust SCC), a

British jet-propelled car, holds the title of the world´s fastest

rocket-powered car and the fastest manned land vehicle ever.

Driven by Andy Green, it achieved a speed of 1,228 km/h

(763mph) in 1997.

 

 

STEAM TRAIN

4468 Mallard

Top speed of 125.88 mph (202.58 km/h) for a train might not seem

as astonishing these days but considering this speed was

achieved in 1938 by a steam locomotive (4468 Mallard), the record

absolutely deserves to be on the list.

 

 

ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLE

Buckeye-Bullet 2.5

Operated by an American pilot Roger Schroer,  a student-built an

alternative-fuel race car known as the Buckeye-Bullet 2.5 It became

the world´s fastest electric-powered vehicle after it achieved a speed

of 308 mph (495 km/h) in August 2010.

 

 

STREET-LEGAL CAR

Hennessey Venom GT

In February 2014, Hennessey Venom GT recorded a speed of

270.49 mph (435.31 km/h) at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida

but as the run was just in a single direction, and only a few of these

cars were sold by that date, it did not qualify as the world’s fastest

production car in the Guinness Book of Records, Nevertheless,

it’s currently the world´s fastest street-legal car.

 

 

PRODUCTION TANK

S 2000 Scorpion

A production standard S 2000 Scorpion Peacekeeper armoured

 reconnaissance tank developed by Repaircraft PLC (UK), achieved

a speed of 82.23 kilometres per hour (51.10 mph) at the

QinetiQ vehicle test track, Chertsey, UK, on 26 March 2002.

 

 

HELICOPTER

Eurocopter X3

An experimental high-speed compound helicopter developed by

Eurocopter, the Eurocopter X3 achieved 255 knots (472 km/h; 293 mph)

in level flight on 7 June 2013, setting an unofficial speed record

for a helicopter.

 

 

UNMANNED PLANE

Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2

Developed as part of the DARPA Falcon Project, the Hypersonic

Technology Vehicle 2 (or HTV-2) is a crewless, experimental 

rocket glider that reached a speed of 13,201 mph (21,245 km/h) in a

test launch. The purpose of this vehicle is to provide the United States

 with the capability to reach any target in the world within one hour.

 


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