It is a lightweight fighter that can fly 1,500km on a tank of fuel, and be refuelled whilst in the air. It is also very fast - with a top speed of Mach 2.3. This speed and famed agility means it has seen a lot of combat over the years. This jet is very well built and ...
Some people call them supercars. They’rethe fastest car in the world, engineered as much for speed as they are for comfort or sporty appearance. Sure, you can buy these cars, but only if you have the bankability of a Bill Gates and the need for speed of a fighter jet pilot. They t...
The SSC Tuatara is an upcoming high-performance sports car to be manufactured by SSC North America. Influenced by fighter jet performance and aerodynamics, the presence of the Tuatara inspires a sense of both intensity and simplistic design. The car is named afterreptilesendemic to New Zealand, k...
In November 1966, drag racer and world land speed record holder Art Arfons crashed his jet-powered Green Monster automobile at a ferocious speed of 610 mph at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Astonishingly, not only did Afrons survive, but he came out with just minor burns and bruises. Consid...
Ken Warby, which broke down on 8 October 1978, setting the world record in water speed. Warby and his son Dave are currently engaged in the construction of a new Australian Spirit boat powered by a Bristol Siddeley Orpheus jet engine taken from an Italian Fiat Gina Fiat G.91 fighter ...
The Turbine Superbike Y2K, produced between 2000 and 2005, is a wheel-driven motorcycle powered by aRolls-Royce 250-C18 turboshaft enginethat runs on diesel fuel. When riding this bike at its top speed of 227 miles per hour, riders experience a sensation like piloting a fighter jet. ...
The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is the fastest jet ever built, a machine so far ahead of its time even its own pilots thought it looked more like a spaceship than an airplane. It is an engineering marvel, powered by innovative engines that operated most efficiently at Mach 3.2, its typical...
The rest of the instruments are a mixture of aviation-style dials and more familiar buttons with icons for the heaters and aircon. It’s a snug fit, not unlike the cockpit of a fighter jet, though today they’ve left the hatch open to help me see where I’m going. Thankfully, I wo...
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Nature's swiftest jet-setter is the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus). "Peregrinus" is the Latin word for "traveler," a fitting moniker given that the raptors can migrate up to 15,550 miles (25,000 kilometers) in a roundtrip — one of the longest migrations in North America, according...