Cessna began development of the Citation X in 1990 and after its introduction in 1996, it quickly set numerous speed records to claim the title of the fastest operational business jet in the world.

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And should the Department for Transport's claim that speed cameras have been shown to cut accidents by around 35% have taken regression to the mean into account?

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But which of the heavyweights can truly lay claim to the speed crown?

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Some new ticket estimates have dropped, but so has the speed: officials now claim it will max out at 186mph.

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The claim is that the speed would be fast enough to where it would be useful for embedded devices to take advantage of.

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Pirelli claim the new tires will speed up races and promote overtaking.

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Some users claim that the Class 4 SD cards (4 denotes the speed class rating) are more vulnerable to problems, and that upgrading to a Class 6 card fixed that.

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What fantastic claim be shown by doing an OPERA-like experiment to measure speed of light instead of neutrinos?

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Now, the two would field competing craft in a bid to claim the first -- and substantially bigger -- Kremer world speed prize.

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