VARIOUS FAST VEHICLES
Added on: 11th Feb 2016
HUMAN POWERED VEHICLE
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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