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Spirit of Australia in which Ken Warby set the world water speed record in 1978 on Blowering Dam, New South Wales, Australia. In the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney. Spirit of Australia is a wooden speed boat built in a Sydney backyard, by Ken Warby, that broke and set the world water speed record on 8 October 1978. [1] [2] [3]
The world unlimited water speed record is the officially recognised fastest speed achieved by a water-borne vehicle, irrespective of propulsion method. The current unlimited record is 511.11 km/h (317.59 mph; 275.98 kn), achieved by Australian Ken Warby in the Spirit of Australia on 8 October 1978.
Nic Case with the R/C Bullet. Nic Case (born 1963) is an American radio-controlled model hobbyist from Southern California specializing in speedrunning.He is notable for becoming the first person to reach 200 mph (321.9 km/h) with his radio-controlled car, [1] the R/C Bullet, having surpassed his records three times with a confirmed entry at the Guinness World Records in 2008, 2013 and 2014.
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A mass-produced radio-controlled yacht In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a radio-controlled boat (U.S. patent 613,809 —Method of an Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vehicle or Vehicles). A radio-controlled boat is a boat or ship model controlled remotely with radio control equipment.
The following is a list of speed records for various types of vehicles.This list only presents the single greatest speed achieved in each broad record category; for more information on records under variations of test conditions, see the specific article for each record category.
It broke the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a motorized boat. [4] It set the record in 60 days 23 hours and 49 minutes. This beat the record of 74 days, 20 hours, 58 minutes set by the Cable and Wireless Adventurer (then the Ocean 7 Adventurer ), [ 19 ] in 1998, by 13 days 21 hours and 9 minutes.
Bluebird K7 is a jet engined hydroplane in which Britain's Donald Campbell set seven world water speed records between 1955 and 1967. K7 was the first successful jet-powered hydroplane, and was considered revolutionary when launched in January 1955.