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ThrustSSC, driven by Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green, holds the current land speed record at 1,227.986 km/h (763.035 mph) set October 15, 1997. The land speed record (LSR) or absolute land speed record is the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land. By a 1964 agreement between the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile ...
HTV-2 (artist rendering), the fastest uncrewed aerial vehicle. North American X-15, the fastest piloted rocket-powered aircraft. SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest piloted air-breathing aircraft. Rare Bear, the fastest piston-engined aircraft. Musculair 2, the fastest human-powered aircraft.
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird holds the official Air Speed Record for a crewed airbreathing jet engine aircraft with a speed of 3,530 km/h (2,190 mph). The record was set on 28 July 1976 by Eldon W. Joersz and George T. Morgan Jr. near Beale Air Force Base, California, USA. It was able to take off and land unassisted on conventional runways. [47]
Spirit of America originally on exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Craig Breedlove (March 23, 1937 – April 4, 2023) was an American professional race car driver and a five-time world land speed record holder. He was the first person in history to reach 500 mph (800 km/h), and 600 mph (970 km/h), using several turbojet ...
Record-breaking production vehicles. Some publications cite the XK120's timed top speed as almost 214 km/h (133 mph) in 1949. [5] The XK120 that achieved this speed was a tuned prototype, not a production car. The production car reached 200.5 km/h (124.6 mph).
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.
Previously, the Guinness Book of World Records listed the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 and Tu-142 bombers as "the fastest propeller-driven aircraft in standard production form", with a maximum level speed of 925 km/h (575 mph; 499 kn) or Mach 0.82. [6] XF-84H "Thunderscreech". Even earlier, in 1997, the Guinness Book of World Records listed the ...
After World War II, the German NSU factory battled Britain's Vincent HRD and Triumph for top speed honors during the 1950s, with British-engined machines dominating the 1960s. New Zealand's Burt Munro (of the film The World's Fastest Indian), set a speed record at Bonneville in 1967 of 183 mph (295 km/h) for a motorcycle with an engine under ...