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Human-powered submarine: 8.035: 14.881: 9.247: Omer 5: Sebastien Brisebois, Joel Brunet 28 Jun 2007 ISR [60] Ground effect vehicle [a] 350: 650: 400: Korabl Maket "Caspian Sea Monster" Soviet Navy: ca. 1966–1980 (unofficial) [62] Underwater vehicle: There is no officially recognized speed record for underwater craft, due to the secretive ...
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.
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 ...
The fastest wind speed ever recorded on Earth, caused by the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado. 150.6: 539: 337: 5 × 10 −7: Top speed of an internal-combustion-powered NHRA Top Fuel Dragster. 154 554.4 344.5 5.1 × 10 −7: Speed of the fastest crossbow arrow. 157: 575: 351: 5.2 × 10 −7: Top speed of experimental test TGV train in 2007 ...
Footspeed, or sprint speed, is the maximum speed at which a human can run. It is affected by many factors, varies greatly throughout the population, and is important in athletics and many sports, such as association football , Australian rules football , American football , track and field , field hockey , tennis , baseball , and basketball .
The Apollo 10 crew (Thomas Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene Cernan) achieved the highest speed relative to Earth ever attained by humans: 39,897 kilometers per hour (11,082 meters per second or 24,791 miles per hour, about 32 times the speed of sound and 0.0037% of the speed of light). [14] The record was set 26 May 1969. [14]
Team USA's Noah Lyles took the gold in the men’s 100-meter final at the Paris Olympics — by five thousandths of a second.
Cheetahs have subsequently been measured at running at a speed of 104 km/h (65 mph) as the fastest speed from three runs including in opposite direction, for a single individual, over a marked 201 m (220 yd) course, even starting the run 18 m (59 ft) behind the start line, starting the run already running on the course.