What Are the Most Extreme Speed Achievements Captured on Video?

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This thread is for speed related videos, pictures and/or links.

I'll start off with a few:

Rocket sled, 0 to 6000+mph in 6 seconds, the stop is even quicker (test object crashes into barrier. Click on picture to see the video. Acceleration in last stage peaks at 157g's, more than the 100g's of the Sprint interceptor missle.

http://www.46tg.af.mil/world_record.htm

pic of rocket sled at 4800 feet / second:

http://www.meggaflash.com/rocket%20photographed%20using%20PF310%20flashbulbs.htm

Rocket drag bike. Note that hydrogen peroxide rockets are single fuel rockets, and use silver as a catalyst.

rktbike.avi

2006 Corvette Z06 190mph run (3 mile runway):

z06190.wmv

Stock Suzuki Haybusa motorcycle, 185mph run (much quicker than car)

busa185.wmv

Modified Haybusa motorcycle, 211mph run

busa211.wmv

Don Vesco 470mph at Bonneville, click on either link near bottom of web page. This was the fastest wheel driven vehicle at the time:

http://www.teamvesco.com/fast_ride.htm

Skydiver with wingsuit:

wingsuit.wmv

Spa in a F1 from 2002 season:

spaf1.wmv

Supersonic flyby

http://jeffareid.net/real/sonicwaves.wmv

RX7 test the structural integrity of it's roof during this Bonneville run (the roof passes the test).

rx7215.wmv
 
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Anyone here got a copy of the supersonic speed run by the Thrust SST from England? They made a PAL VHS tape, but I live in the USA, no PAL players here.
 
Try - http://www.thrustssc.com/thrustssc/Videos/Videos.html
Well it's not much. It's too far and video is fixed. :rolleyes:, so Thrust passes quickly through the field of view. Links to the cockpit and tail camera are apparently invalid, or I can't download the large files.

I think some modern VCR's can play PAL as well as US formats, or one can get the PAL format converted.

See also - http://www.thrustssc.com/thrustssc/contents_frames.html


http://www.teamvesco.com/
The SCTA/BNI 2006 Bonneville event dates are:

Speed Week --- August 12 - 18, 2006

World Finals -- October 11 - 14, 2006

Utah Salt Flats Racers 2006 Bonneville event dates are:

World of Speed -- September 13 - 16, 2006

:biggrin:
 
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more videos

What 180+mph looks like on a Hayabusa speed run, the camera mount broke, so it's a short video:

busasr.wmv

An oldie, but my favorite downhill ski video, lots of camera angles, chase, onboard, ...

skidh.wmv
 
supersonic speed run by the Thrust SST from England

Found it, but quality is low:

thrust1.avi

Cool picture showing the shockwave:

thrust1.jpg
 
thrust1.avi is bad
Sorry aboutthat. It's fixed now. For some weird reason, my FTP uploader program or my web hosting will have a problem uploading a file, but renaming the suffix (like from .AVI to .BIN) cures the problem. Then I just rename it back after uploading.

Link is the same as before:

thrust1.avi

Here's one more of motorcycle, a turbo busa doing a 235mph "flyby" (trap speed):

busa235.wmv
 
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Great thrust video Jeff. :cool:
 
I just found this one. It's rather amusing.
http://jet-race.freeonlinegames.com/"
 
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