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SPEED RECORD BREAKING VEHICLES

Added on: 7th Apr 2016

 

LUNAR ROVER

Lunar Roving Vehicle

Even among lunar vehicles there is a speed world record

holder. With a maximum speed of 17 km/h (10.6 mph), the 

Lunar Roving Vehicle (Commonly known as the “moon buggy”)

is the current world record holder. The vehicle was used in

the last three missions of the American Apollo program

 (15, 16, and 17).

 

 

MANNED SPACE VEHICLE

Apollo 10

The spacecraft used in the fourth manned mission in the 

United States Apollo space program, Apollo 10 holds the

Guinness World Record for highest speed attained by any

manned vehicle, at 24,791 mph (39,897 km/h), during the

return from the Moon on May 26, 1969.

 

 

UNMANNED SPACE VEHICLE

Helios 2

The title of the world´s fastest unmanned spacecraft and fastest

vehicle ever belongs to Helios 1 and Helios 2 – a pair of

probes launched into heliocentric orbit for the purpose of

studying solar processes. Launched from Cape Canaveral,

Florida, in December 1974, and January 1976, respectively,

the probes hurtled through space at 252,792 km/h (157,078 mph).

 

 

STEAM-POWERED VEHICLE

Steam-powered vehicle

Driven by Charles Burnet III, a British steam car nicknamed

the “fastest kettle in the world”, currently holds the title for the

fastest steam-powered vehicle. In 2009, the car achieved a

speed of 140 mph (225 km/h) at the Edwards Air Force Base

in California.

 

 

GLIDER

Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4

In December 2006, pilots Klaus Ohlmann and Matias Garcia Mazzaro

set a new world record for the fastest glider by reaching a

speed of 306.8 km/h (190.6 mph) with their high-performance

two-seat glider Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4.

 

 

WHEEL DRIVEN VEHICLE

Turbinator

In 2001, just a year before he died, Don Vesco, an American

businessperson and famous motorcycle racer, set the

wheel-driven land speed world record of 458.440 miles per hour

(737.788 km/h) in his turbo-shaft powered streamliner

called “Turbinator”.

 

 

WATER VEHICLE

Spirit of Australia

Powered by a Westinghouse J34 jet engine, the Spirit of Australia,

a wooden speed boat, is the fastest vehicle that has ever

touched water. In 1978, Ken Warby, an Australian motorboat

racer, set the record by reaching a speed of 317.596 mph

(511.11 km/h) with this boat.

 

 

SOLAR-POWERED VEHICLE

Sunswift IV (IVy)

Another vehicle designed in Australia, the Sunswift IV (IVy) broke

the Guinness World Record for the fastest solar powered

vehicle at the Royal Australian Navy Airbase in 2007 by

reaching a top speed of 88.5 kilometres per hour (55 mph),

beating the previous record of 22 years by over

10 km/h (6.2 mph).

 


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