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Hans Tucker

21-01-2022, 07:27 AM

The closest many of us will get to doing 400+ km/h :thumbsup:

https://youtu.be/7pg1hhW5qhM

21-01-2022, 07:38 AM

That's surpisingly boring, considering the speed. The Toecutter looked way faster than that.

But then maybe I've just spent too much time of my life driving on the Autobahn...

ausastronomer

21-01-2022, 08:59 AM

Try driving a boat then !

160kph in a boat is far more exhilarating than 300kph in a car !!

417kph in a boat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F8N8Z_4kU4

Cheers
John B

21-01-2022, 09:30 AM

I guess you have a point there :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4yymmPCkU

astroron

21-01-2022, 02:05 PM

Loved the Cannonball/ Countach video.
Great history.
Cheers:thumbsup:

raymo

21-01-2022, 02:11 PM

For a few dollars you can do 431kph on the maglev train in Shanghai, or was it Beijing? my memory is shot.
raymo

leon

21-01-2022, 02:12 PM

417 in a boat, :scared::scared: your all mad.:lol:

Leon :thumbsup:

astroron

21-01-2022, 03:15 PM

For a few dollars more you can get on an aircraft and do double
that speed.:P
Cheers:thumbsup:

Peter Ward

21-01-2022, 04:03 PM

I recall flying a day shuttle flight LHR to MAN in a near empty B747-400...

We wound it up briefly to Mach 0.84 (about 1000kph in round numbers) at which time ATC were scrambling to hand us over to MAN approach and asked us to slow down to a slovenly 250 knots (about 460kph) while they got sorted.

Kill joys :)

astronobob

21-01-2022, 04:51 PM

From a lazy standing start, moderate intitial excelleration, this did 10klm in two minutes, 457km/h

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up76Py9DRD8

Hans Tucker

21-01-2022, 05:48 PM

https://youtu.be/Lg73GKm7GgI

3690 Km/Hr ... Game over man .. Game over

raymo

21-01-2022, 05:54 PM

I think we were talking about speed on the ground where you can appreciate
the speed, not in the air where most prople have been.
raymo

LewisM

21-01-2022, 06:51 PM

I've done more than 417 KNOTS at 50 feet if that counts... :)

Well, I wasn't flying, Dmitri was :P

LewisM

21-01-2022, 06:57 PM

Always smile when I see a ground speed in excess of M1.0...shame it's not airspeed, but the small joys of life...

Peter Ward

21-01-2022, 10:02 PM

Indeed I have a signed copy of "Sled Driver"....but hey, at least I was doing
the driving in the four burner :)