Rocket train smashes world land-speed record
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Secret warhead tested in helium-filled polytunnel It's been a big 24 hours for the US weapons-tech establishment in terms of making stuff go really fast. American war-boffins shot a railgun slug with ten megajoules of muzzle energy (and speed of Mach 7+) yesterday; a different weapons lab has also broken the world land speed record.â¦
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The Toyota Prius has set a new world land-speed record for hybrid powered cars. The Prius achieved 130.794 mph on a three-mile, Salt Lake course using a standard Hybrid Synergy Drive power-train - a mixture
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Summary - (Nov 17, 2004) The X-43A scramjet broke its own world record for air breathing engines on Tuesday, when it traveled at nearly 10 times the speed of sound.
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New Zealand&#39;s Sarah Ulmer stormed to gold in the women&#39;s individual pursuit in a new world record time. Ulmer, fourth in Sydney four years ago, beat Australia&#39;s Katie Mactier in a time of three minutes 24.
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Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand continued her dominance of pursuit racing Sunday, breaking her own world record to win the Olympic gold medal.
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PHILADELPHIA _ A Swedish astronaut kept a Frisbee in the air for 20 seconds Friday, claiming the new world record for "Maximum Time Aloft".  Only thing is, it was floating in zero gravity, aboard the International Space Station.
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TRANSATLANTIC travellers could be in the US in minutes rather than hours after a supersonic jet screamed into the record books. The unmanned NASA jet reached speeds of almost 7,000 mph
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Russia successfully launched a new model of booster rocket, the Soyuz-2, on Monday following two postponements. The rocket blasted off at 9:30 pm (1830 GMT) from the Plesetsk
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A Russian rocket carrying a US-Russian space crew on a two-day flight to the International Space Station blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Thursday.
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A US hypersonic experimental scramjet, the X-43A, clocked up a test flight on Tuesday at a world record speed 10 times faster than sound, NASA said.
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LOS ANGELES NASA&#39;s unmanned &quot;scramjet&quot; proved it&#39;s small but it&#39;s fast -- in a record-breaking demonstration above the Pacific Ocean.
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Six Flags Great Adventure is opening the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster this spring &#151; a thrill ride that accelerates to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds and rises 456 feet off the ground.
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A small, unmanned NASA jet flew into the record books Tuesday, setting a speed record for jet planes when it screamed out over the Pacific Ocean at Mach 9.6 speed -- almost 10 times the speed of sound -- project officials announced.
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The first high-speed rail link between France and Germany began scheduled services Sunday, slashing travel times and marking a major step towards a truly pan-European rapid transit network. via Raw Story
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An unmanned Nasa jet screamed into the record books high over the Pacific Ocean by reaching speeds of almost 7000 mph, brightening hopes that humans might one day be able to fly across a continent in minutes instead of hours.
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An unmanned experimental jet broke  a world record for speed on Tuesday by accelerating to about  7,000 miles per hour high over the Pacific Ocean in a NASA test  of cutting-edge engine technology.
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Eurostar set a new Paris to London rail  speed record of just over two hours on Tuesday with the first  train to use Britain's long-awaited high speed track at over  186 mph (299 kph).