Your Land, Water & Air Speed Record

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Something which cropped up in conversation. These are the current manned records:

Land: 763mph / 1228kmh, ThrustSSC (1997)
Water: 317mph / 510kmh, Spirit of Australia (1978)
Air: 2,193mph / 3,529kmh, SR-71 (1976)

What is the fastest you have been on land, on water and in the air?

Land: 122mph / 196kmh, Honda Civic (2012)
Water: 25mph / 40kmh, MS Pride of Dover (2007 & 2009)
Air: 530mph / 853kmh, Boeing 757 (1999)

Note: An aeroplane's takeoff is not counted as part of a land speed record.
 
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Here it goes..

Land: 216.87 mp/h (349.02 km/h): Renfe Ave Bullet Train (Jun 2009)
Water: 37.282 mp/h (60.00 km/h): MV Sun Cruiser 2, (Feb 2012)
Air: 595.89 mp/h (958.99 km/h): Japan Airlines B767-300ER (Mar 2013)
 
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Land : 140mph
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Water: 85mph~
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Air: a few hundred give or take a number
 
Land: 170mph with either a Triumph 675 or a nascar.

Water: 130-something mph in a dual engined cigarette boat.

Air: Probably about .83 Mach or whatever airliners travel at.
 
Land: ~150 mph on a Suzuki RG500.

Water: ~70 mph in a Hydrolift powerboat.

Air: ~500 mph in a Boeing 737.
 
Land: 250Km/h in my ST220 (autobahn) and around 110km/h skiing on the Olympic slope in Sölden Austria. 265km/h with my Honda CBR 1000
water: I have no clue. Not more than 10km/h
Air: no idea how fast a commercial aeroplane goes.
 
Land: 130mph in the passenger seat of Dad's cadillac. I remember this because I got nervous.
Water: Probably 40-50 knots hauling ass on an offshore fishing boat. Unpowered: Probably almost double digits on a Hobie Wave. I was too big to go any faster with both hulls buried.
Air: Probably on an MD-90 or one of those. What's that top speed? Like 570ish? I had the fastest flight ever from, I think, Charlotte or somewhere into Little Rock. I think it was that. It may have been to and from elsewhere, but I remember that the Captain said they had to get somewhere in a hurry so they'd be doing top speed the whole way. The flight was supposed to take 2 or 3 hours and I swear we were on the ground again in about an hour, maybe less.
 
Liquid
Something which cropped up in conversation. These are the current manned records:

Land: 763mph / 1228kmh, ThrustSSC (1997)
Water: 317mph / 510kmh, Spirit of Australia (1978)
Air: 2,193mph / 3,529kmh, SR-71 (1976)
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Just curious, but Stage 1 of the Saturn V achieved over 6,000 mph and Stage 2 even faster (although this was outside our atmosphere). Does this not count as an air speed record?
 
I've done 138mph in two of my own vehicles, probably 130-135 once error is accounted for.

I've been at 60mph in a boat - speeding through a couple of canals off the Intracoastal Waterway wasn't my idea, but the sensation was pretty cool as a teenager. The few times I've captained a vessel was more like 15-25 mph. I'm not sure how fast the average jet ski goes, but it seems like maybe 25-30mph, although it feels faster than that.

According to my flight records, my flight on a 747 from Miami to Madrid averaged 510mph; I'm going to guess 530-540 after accounting for jet stream and what those planes can do. I've seen 500-540 on many if the overhead/in-flight entertainment screens, but I've never remembered nor recorded which flight hit fastest overall speed.

Most of my flights seem to average 350-400mph. I used a GPS speedometer app a few times and it lost signal at 360-380mph. It really looks funny compared to watching a car accelerate, because my car-based mindset is that it's going to run out of steam at around 199-220...

So if we have any Air Force pilots here, or anyone who's been on a Concorde, they're going eclipse us mortals.
 
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Just curious, but Stage 1 of the Saturn V achieved over 6,000 mph and Stage 2 even faster (although this was outside our atmosphere). Does this not count as an air speed record?
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That's for the FAI to decide. To me, at least, a spacecraft or space mission doesn't count much like I am not counting an aeroplane taking off to be part of anyone's personal land speed records.

Edit: Spacecraft are down on the Wiki page under 'other' airspeed records.
 
Land: 220 kph/ 136mph on my fzs 600 Fazer (Autobahn) <-read from speedometer so it's probably a bit less.
Water: 20 kph/ 12 mph on the boat to Schiermonnikoog (one of the "Waddeneilanden")
Air: Only flew once, a short flight in a helicopter between 80/50 or 120kph/75mph I think. :rolleyes:
 
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That's for the FAI to decide. To me, at least, a spacecraft or space mission doesn't count much like I am not counting an aeroplane taking off to be part of anyone's personal land speed records.

Edit: Spacecraft are down on the Wiki page under 'other' airspeed records.
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Ah, OK. 👍

As for me, some guesstimates here:

Land: Indicated 160 mph in a Nissan GT-R
Water: Jetski - I was told it was capable of 50 knots. I was flat out on calm sea, so around there somewhere.
Air: Probably around 500 mph on a long haul flight.
 
On land, it would have been the TGV.
On water, it would have been a Condor passenger Hydrofoil.
In air, it would probably have a twin engine airliner from JFK to Heathrow.... seem to recall the return leg being significantly tail-wind aided.

No idea on the speeds of those things though.
 
Land: 210 Kph in a 1991 Honda Accord Exi I used to own.
Water: Estimate 100 Kph. Cheraline (18ft Stephens V-bottom - 400hp Holden 308) when the engine was being run in, was a steady 5,000 rpm.
Air: 600Kph QANTAS flight from Melbourne(Victoria) to Gold Coast(Queensland)
 
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Yes. Land speed record is land speed record. I didn't say car speed record.
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If you include rail, then the land speed record is Mach 8.5.

My personal LSR is 130mph in an RX8.
Sea. Don't really know but I'd guess the fastest boat I've been on was the Dolly P and they say it does 21 knots.
Air speed would be Mach 0.82 ish in an Airbus A330.
 
Land: ~220kph on an intercity bullet train in China (Cheng Du - Chongqing)

Air (personal): 120-125mph during a 10000m free fall skydive.

Air: whatever planes fly at.

Water: jet ski is suppose, but not super fast, probably 50kph if I had to guess.

I do also have another land record, but that is distance related, not speed. :)
 
Land - 190 km/h, Volkswagen Transporter, some autobahn, Germany.

Water - 65 km/h, SuperSeaCat III, between Helsinki and Tallinn.

Air - about 800 km/h, passenger jet, somewhere between Helsinki and Paris.
 
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What is the fastest you have been on land, on water and in the air?
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Motorized:

Land: 310 km/h / 192 mph in a French TGV
Water: 80 km/h / 50 mp/h sitting on a tire while being dragged by a speed boat across a lake.
Air: 950 km/h / 590 mp/h in a 737 flying to Iceland. I wanted it to reach 1000 km/h but no luck.

*edit* No wait, I actually reached over 1000 kmh / 621 mph on my ride to Portugal, I don't remember the plane though.


Self-propelled:

Land: 110 km/h / 68 mp/h downhill on my tricked out bicycle
Water: 6 km/h 3.7 mp/h back swimming.
Air: approx 35 km/h / 21 mp/h while jumping over hurdles.
 
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Land: ~125 mph in a 944 Turbo (not me driving), 105 mph with me at the wheel
Water: Probably about 25 mph (me driving)
Air: ~600 mph, or whatever the cruising speed of a 747 is from JFK to LHR.
 
Land: ~290 km/h, Italian high speed train.
Water: ~65 km/h, fishing boat with 70hp outboard motor
Air: ~900 km/h, Boeing 777 from YYZ to CDG
 
Because I'm pedantic...

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This is a special version of the X 15 and holds the record for fastest manned non-air breathing (like an SR 71) plane at 4,520 mph/7,274 kph so pretty damn quick :lol:

And because this sounds fun

Land: unsure. Somewhere in the 90s, probably lower.
Water: 3 mph maybe. Was swimming. Never been on a boat.
Air: about 550 mph, crushing speed of a standard airliner.
 
Air. Whatever a plane flew at 15 years ago.
Land. 125mph.
Sea. 20ish mph.
 
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Land: 125 mph. BR Class 43/InterCity 125. Any time between c. 1996-2014.
Water: 45 mph. SeaCat. 2014.
Air: 511 mph. Airbus A320. 2009.
 
When you say fastest in air, do you mean air speed or ground speed?
 

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