10 Fastest Things In The World
Published in Entertainment at April 13th, 2017 at 6:43 AM
Have you ever wondered what is the fastest made man made object in this world... or even the fastest man. This planet is full of incredibly quick machines and animals that not even you or I could stand a chance keeping up with. Here are 10 of the fastest things In the world.
X-15
Operated by United States Air Force and NASA, X-15 was a rocket powered aircraft. With a top speed of 6.72 Mach it holds the official world record for the fastest speed ever reached by a manned aircraft. X-15 was manufactured by North American Aviation which was used from 8 June 1959 till December 1970. The engine used ammonia and liquid oxygen for propellant and hydrogen peroxide to drive the high-speed turbo pump that delivered fuel to the engine accompanied by a thick wedge tail for stability at hypersonic speeds.
The Eurocopter X3 (X-Cubed)
The Eurocopter X3 (X-Cubed) is an experimental high-speed compound helicopter under development by Eurocopter. On June 7, 2013 it demonstrated a speed of 255 knots (293 mph; 472 km/h) beating Sikorsky X2’s world record, becoming the fastest compound helicopter as of June 2013. The X3 demonstrator is based on a Eurocopter EC155 helicopter with the addition of short span wings each fitted with a tractor propeller. The tractor propellers are gear driven from the two main turboshaft engines which also drive the five-bladed main rotor. The helicopter is designed to prove the concept of a high-speed helicopter which depends on the slowing down of the rotor speed to avoid drag from the advancing blade tip, and to avoid retreating blade stall by unloading the rotor while a small wing is intended to provide up to 80% lift instead.
The Insano
The Insano is the highest water slide in the world at 41 meters high, a record listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Its height is equivalent to that of a 14-story building. As a consequence of its height and slope, this water slide provides an extremely rapid descent – taking between four and five seconds – at a speed of 105 km/h (65mph). Because of these characteristics, the Insano is considered the most extreme of this type of equipment on the planet. At the end of the track, the Insano provides you with a relaxing dive into the swimming pool.
Sailfish
Sailfish is the fastest fish in the world. No other creature in the water is faster than Sailfish. There are two species of this fish in genus Istiophorus. These fish can grow to 9.8 ft long and can weigh up to 200 lb (90 kg). The average life span of a sailfish is 5 to 7 years. They are found in the Indian and Pacific oceans and they have a distinctive sail-like dorsal fin that gives them their name. They have a long, sharp bill that they use for hunting and they feed on tuna, mackerel and other fish.
Tianhe-2 or TH-2
Tianhe-2 or TH-2 is a 33.86 petaflop supercomputer located in Guangzhou, China. It is currently the world’s fastest supercomputer according to the TOP500 list for June 2013. Tianhe-2 has 16,000 nodes, each with two Intel Xeon IvyBridge processors and three Xeon Phi processors for a combined total of 3,120,000 computing cores. The computer beat out second place finisher Titan by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. Titan, which is housed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, achieved 17.59 petaflops, while Tianhe-2 achieved 33.86 petaflops. Tianhe-2’s phenomenal performance returned the title of the world’s fastest supercomputer to China after Tianhe-I’s debut in November 2010.
The cheetah
The cheetah can run faster than any other land animal— as fast as 112 to 120 km/h (70 to 75 mph) in short bursts covering distances up to 500 m (1,600 ft), and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in three seconds. Data from 367 runs by three female and two male adults, with an average run distance of 173 m, showed that hunting cheetahs can run 58 miles (93 km) per hour.
The Peregrine Falcon
The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the Peregrine, and historically as the “Duck Hawk" in North America, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is a large, crow-sized falcon, with a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and “moustache". It can reach speeds over 322 km/h (200 mph) in a dive, making it the fastest animal in the world.
The CRH380A
The top in the world of fast trains is China, which broke the 300 mph barrier with the CRH380A. The CRH380A is designed to operate at a cruise speed of 350 km/h (217 mph) and a maximum of 380 km/h (236 mph) in commercial service. The original 8-car train-set recorded a top speed of 416.6 km/h (258.9 mph) during a trial run and the longer 16-car train-set temporarily held the world record for the fastest production train at 486.1 km/h (302.0 mph).
The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4
The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is a mid-engined grand touring car, designed and developed by the Volkswagen Group and manufactured in Molsheim, France by Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. The Super Sport version of the Veyron is the fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a top speed of 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph). The original version has a top speed of 408.47 km/h (253.81 mph). It was named Car of the Decade (2000–2009) by the BBC television programme Top Gear. The standard Bugatti Veyron won Top Gear’s Best Car Driven All Year award in 2005. On 6 April 2013, Bugatti set the record for having the highest top speed of any roadster in the world with the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, reaching on average a top speed of 408.84 km/h (254.04 mph)
Usain St. Leo Bolt OJ CD
Usain St. Leo Bolt OJ CD (Born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter widely regarded as the fastest person ever. He is the first man to hold both the 100 meters and 200 meters. Along with his teammates, he also set the world record in the 4×100 meters relay. He is the reigning Olympic champion in these three events, the first man to win six Olympic gold medals in sprinting, and an eight-time World champion. He was the first to achieve a “double double” by winning 100 m and 200 m titles at consecutive Olympics (2008 and 2012) and topped this through the first “double triple” (including 4×100 m relays).
