what is the top speed of a nuclear aircraft carrier?
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im 99.9% sure that exact info is classified at least secret
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1,000000,0000000 that is how fast sound really is.\n\nbut to answer you question just listen and watch a jet after the jet passes then it takes 15 seconds before you here the sound because the jet has broken through the sound barrier.
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Not without a major change in design.  Shipping 50 times the fuel will not give you 50 times the delta-V with a chemical rocket, it will be much, much lower than that, I believe for typical efficiencies, 50* the fuel will get you 4* the delta-V.\n\nTo go much faster you need to increase the specific impulse of the engine, which amounts to increasing the speed at which material leaves the nozzle.  A chemical rocket is limited by how hot it can make the expanding gas.  A nuclear rocket works well because it makes hot hydrogen, which has a higher nozzle velocity at a given temperature than hot water or carbon dioxide.  To go beyond those impulses to very high speeds, non-thermal systems like ion drives are more plausible, but they do not generate very much thrust.
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Fastest conventional train\n515.3 km/h (322 mph) France, TGV-A set 325, 18 May 1990.\n\nFastest gas turbine-powered train\n318 km/h (199 mph) France, TGV001, 8 December 1972.\n\nFastest diesel-powered train\n238 km/h (149 mph) UK, HST, 1 November 1987.\n\nFastest steam locomotive\n202 km/h (126 mph) UK, A4 class Gresley pacific No. 4468 "Mallard", 3 July 1938.\n\nFastest narrow gauge (1,067 mm) train\n245 km/h (152 mph) South Africa, class 6E electric locomotive, December 1978.\n\nFastest third-rail electric train\n174 km/h (109 mph) UK, class 442 (Wessex Electric) emu, 11 April 1988.\n\nFastest maglev train\n581 km/h (363 mph) Japan, MLX01 maglev train (manned), 2 December 2003.\n\nFastest rail vehicle\n10,300 km/h (Mach 8.6) USA, Holloman Air Force Base High Speed Test Track, unmanned rocket sled, 30 April 2003.\n\nFastest scheduled average speed between two station stops\n263.3 km/h (165 mph) France, TGV between Lyon-St Exupéry and Aix-en-Provence, from 2005.\n\nFastest scheduled average speed between starting and terminating stations\n242.5 km/h (152 mph) Japan, 500 series "Nozomi" between Shin-Osaka and Hakata, from March 1997.\n\nFastest closing speed between two trains (maglev)\n1,026 km/h (641 mph) Japan, MLX01 3-car sets, 16 November 2004.\n\nFastest non-stop run over 1,000 km\n3 hrs 9 mins (average speed 317.5 km/h) France, TGV-Reseau set 531 between Calais and Marseilles, 26 May 2001.
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try this site that I saw:\n\nhttp://www.style.org/unladenswallow/\n\n--------------------------\n\nIt is estimated that the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour
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sound-330m/s in air medium\nlight-299,297km/s
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Ford GT is more POWERFUL I dont know about top speed.
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"The 747 at empty weight has a stall speed of ONLY 86 KTS! ..."\n\n86 kts = 159 km/h = 99 mph\n\ncorrection: of course at stall speed you will stall. You should fly faster than the stall speed. Noticeably faster to be safe.
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sound travels at about 580 miles per hour so if you travel at say 583 miles per hour then its supersonic, thats when you hear the boom on an aircraft as it breaking through the sound barrier
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Depends on what track. On a closed circuit at La Mans the top speed was 405 kph or 250 mph.
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Fun facts about the B17G\n\nMaximum speed = 263 mph at 25,000 feet. 300 mph at 30,000 feet\nCruising speed = 150 mph at 25,000 feet\nRange = 1,850 miles with 4,000 pounds of bombs and 2810 gallons of fuel\nWingspan = 103 feet 9 3/8 inches\nWeight = 32,700 pounds empty, 55,000 pounds normal, 72,000 pounds maximum\nWeapons = 13 50 caliber machine guns\nWell known B17 crew members include actor Jimmy Stewart and football coach Tom Landry\n\nI understand the B17 exhibits in Washington state are very impressive\n\nThere were 10 crew members\n\npilot \ncopilot\nnavigator / gunner\nradio operator / gunner\nbombardier / gunner\nengineer / gunner\ntail gunner\nbelly gunner (aka ball turret)\n2 waist gunners
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the earth's orbital speed is 67 000 miles per hour.
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The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today.  The Aioi Works of Japan's Diesel United, Ltd built the first engines and is where some of these pictures were taken. \n     It is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines.  These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships.  Ship owners like a single engine/single propeller design and the new generation of larger container ships needed a bigger engine to propel them.\n\n     The cylinder bore is just under 38" and the stroke is just over 98".  Each cylinder displaces 111,143 cubic inches (1820 liters) and produces 7780 horsepower.  Total displacement comes out to 1,556,002 cubic inches (25,480 liters) for the fourteen cylinder version.\n\n     Some facts on the 14 cylinder version: \n Total engine weight: 2300 tons  (The crankshaft alone weighs 300 tons.) \n Length: 89 feet \n Height: 44 feet \n Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm  \n Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm  \n\n     Fuel consumption at maximum power is 0.278 lbs per hp per hour (Brake Specific Fuel Consumption).  Fuel consumption at maximum economy is 0.260 lbs/hp/hour.  At maximum economy the engine exceeds 50% thermal efficiency.  That is, more than 50% of the energy in the fuel in converted to motion.\n     For comparison, most automotive and small aircraft engines have BSFC figures in the 0.40-0.60 lbs/hp/hr range and 25-30% thermal efficiency range.\n\n     Even at it's most efficient power setting, the big 14 consumes 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour.
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The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest creature on the planet.
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Obviously the maximum airspeed is a function of thrust and drag.  Consider that a missile is a aerodynamic body with high thrust and low drag.  What determines the maximum speed of the missile?  \n\nDrag can be dissected into many parts.  Optimizing the shape of the body requires that you pick a environ to operate in, but the basic wedge rocket planes were pretty good (X15).  If you are only asking about jet aircraft, then the question is efficiency at what speed.  Subsonic or supersonic?  Part of the drag is due to turbulent structures in the wake of the body.  These can change for different velocity regimes, depending on the aircraft's shape.\n\nIf you are asking about low speed regimes, minimizing drag can be achieved by making all components of the aircraft as narrow as possible, and ensuring all surfaces remain laminar.  In other words, reduce frontal area and reduce turbulence.  Of course you still are required to produce lift.  Hence the tendency for long thin tapered wings.  Low frontal area, low drag.\n\nMost of these criteria can only be exploited as far as the materials technology will allow.  The rocket plane will burn up at speed in the lower atmosphere.  The longest, thinnest wing will snap.  Various other issues.  So you could say the real limit of airspeed is materials technology.  Hope this helps!
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The record for manned flight is :\n"The official air speed record is 2,193.167 mph by Capt. Eldon W. Joersz in a Lockheed SR-71A"\n\nhttp://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/records.htm
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Puck for sure. Bobby hulls has been clocked at 127 MPH