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Land Speed Record Broken: 0-6,400 in Six Seconds

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the faster-than-a-speeding-bullet dept.

linuxwrangler writes "Researchers at Holloman AFB have broken their own two decades old land speed record for rail vehicles. The rocket powered sled covered the 3 mile track in roughly 6 seconds. Preliminary numbers put the sled's speed at mach 8.6 or about 6,400 mph - it covered the last 1.8 miles in just 1.3 seconds. The previous record of 6,122 mph was set on Oct. 5, 1982. Other accounts are at the Alamogordo Daily News, the Denver Post, and CNN."

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  1. amazed this hasn't been posted yet by dboyles · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I said the metric systm is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hog's head, and that's the way I likes it!

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