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  2. List of vehicle speed records - Wikipedia

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    Uncrewed torpedo speed claims range from 60 knots (110 km/h; 69 mph) for the British Spearfish torpedo [64] to 200 knots (370 km/h; 230 mph) for the Russian VA-111 Shkval. [ 65 ] ^ a b Ground effect vehicles (a.k.a. "Wing-In-Ground effect vehicles") are classified as maritime vessels, rather than aircraft, by the International Maritime ...

  3. Footspeed - Wikipedia

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    The average human has an almost-equal ratio of fast-twitch to slow-twitch fibers, but top sprinters may have as much as 80% fast-twitch fibers, while top long-distance runners may have only 20%. [1] This ratio is believed to have genetic origins, though some assert that it can be adjusted by muscle training. [2] "Speed camps" and "Speed ...

  4. Speed record - Wikipedia

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    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 such as humans, animals or vehicles. The function of speed record is to record the speed of moving animate objects such as humans, animals or vehicles.

  5. Land speed record - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy Levitt, in a 19 kW (26 hp) Napier, at Brooklands, England, in 1908. The FIA does not recognize separate men's and women's land speed records, because the records are set using motorized vehicles, and not muscle-powered vehicles, so the gender of the driver does not matter; however, unofficial women's records have long been claimed, seemingly starting with Dorothy Levitt's 1906 record ...

  6. The world's fastest human-powered vehicle just topped ... - AOL

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    It might look like a kayak on its side, but that vehicle above has just broken the human-powered land speed record. The pilot, Todd Reichert, managed 85.71mph in his "Eta" speedbike on Thursday ...

  7. Flight airspeed record - Wikipedia

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    An air speed record is the highest airspeed attained by an aircraft of a particular class. ... Fastest human-powered aircraft [51] 22 December 2006:

  8. Usain Bolt - Wikipedia

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    Also has the second fastest time (9.63) and shares the third fastest time of 9.69 with Tyson Gay and Yohan Blake. Bolt's 9.63 is the Olympic record, set at the 2012 games. 150 metres: 14.35 Manchester, England: 17 May 2009 WB [note 2] He ran the last 100 m in 8.70, the fastest ever recorded time over a 100 m distance.

  9. Orders of magnitude (speed) - Wikipedia

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    The fastest wind speed ever recorded on Earth, ... Speed of Apollo 10 – high speed record for human-crewed vehicle. 11,200: 40,320: 25,100 0.00004: