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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

New DS World record with 498 mph

This means 801 km/h, or mach 0.65 ! This is just crazy. This new record has been established by Spencer Lisenby with a Kinetic 100. The 500 mph barrier will be broken for sure ! Congratulation to Spencer for this new achievement.

6 comments:

  1. Hello,

    Sorry to disappoint you, but 800 km/h is not Mach 0.8. Soud speed at sea level is approx 340 m/S, i.e. 1224 km/h. So 800 km/h is Mach 0.65.
    Still, very impressive spedd achieved !!!

    Regards.

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  2. spencer is the man, when i tell my old duffer friends here in montana about the speeds, some of them wont belive me even with the video

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  3. Remember 498mph was groundspeed not airspeed. Max airspeed is estimated at 580mph. Also temperature was 20deg F. Put this into mach speed calc and you get m=0.79!

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  4. Yes - search 498mph on Vimeo

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