Amir Rosenbaum: Land Speed Racing is the oldest and most simple of any form of racing.
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It turns out that the full performance of the rocket is not needed to break the land speed record.
Kenny has been Land Speed Racing for over 35 years, has set dozens of records, many of which still stand today.
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But probably the coolest aspect of Land Speed Racing is that, for an amateur racer like me, it presents a level playing field.
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Bluebird is on display at the Welsh Museum of Speed at Pendine while the attempt on the lawnmower land speed record is made.
Project Runningblade's mower is driven by Don Wales, whose grandfather Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world land speed record at seven-mile long Pendine Sands in 1924.
The Bluebird Club on the King's Road is believed to have housed one of the cars in which Sir Malcolm Campbell set one of his nine land speed records.
It's also the place where Andy Green, a British fighter pilot, broke the land speed record in 1997 by driving a jet-powered car through the sound barrier to 763 mph.
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Just down the road too, in Sparks, was a warehouse containing the strange, finned, tubular car in which he hoped to break the land speed record, travelling as close as he could to 800 miles an hour.
Flip with his breakfast cereal smile, in his zip-up land speed suit, made of a silvery-blue ripstop cloth that refracted to lavender at angles and folds, and lace-up racing boots that were the color of vanilla ice cream.
Reno informs us that, as a young girl, she loved the celebrated land-speed-record holder, Flip Farmer.
Later the car was modified to accommodate a Simpson Special land-speed record engine (no. 1522), a motor that had won ten records at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
In 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, he drove Thrust SSC to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a car and set the existing land-speed record of 763mph.
The speed of land loss has accelerated while aquifers run dry.
Finally, AgustaWestland surprised the HeliExpo crowd by revealing that it has been secretly testing an electrically powered tiltrotor, mixing the versatility of a vertical takeoff and land helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing aircraft.
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In a bid to speed up the land reform process, the government has moved to loosen up restrictive terms that heavily favored the government in negotiations with farmers over land sales.
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While land reform is accepted by all sides as necessary in Zimbabwe, the speed of the programme has often left the land's new occupants without fertiliser, equipment and even seed.
Instead, he went straight into close-quarter combat, his hand speed allowing him to land furious clusters of punches while Lacy's increasingly scrambled brain was still getting his shoulder muscles into gear.
Land Rover are also working to introduce nine-speed transmissions into their next vehicles as soon as possible.
Those first eager customers are expecting to get their hands on a plane that can fly up to 12 passengers more than 7, 400km (4, 600 miles) at speeds of up to 1, 700kph (1, 050mph), or 1.6 times the speed of sound, over sea and approved land corridors.
After a 10 hour flight, they land at Frankfurt and here, it's all about speed and punctuality.
Being able to make quick changes in speed is essential for safety, and because the Eclipse can land slowly, it can be stopped quickly on the ground.
Mansfield District Council said purchasing land housing the former General Hospital, off West Hill Drive, would help speed up its redevelopment.
"Hopewell misjudged the speed of major civil engineering construction in China, the complexities of land acquisition and budgeting, " says Michael Green of Nomura Research Institute.
Things have been quiet in Smart car land this past year, as Mercedes has done its legwork to get Smart up to speed.
Indeed, it is a slower speed that enables such an aircraft to be so quiet: it would drift in to land rather than powering in, all engines blazing, as today's jets do.
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