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Being the national bird of Hungary, and capable of flying at speeds approaching 200mph I was delighted when this fabulous looking bird perched briefly to enable a few shots.
Image taken in the Hortobágy region of Hungary.
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The Shinkansen bullet train on display in the National Railway Museum in York. Their streamlined shape prompted the nickname 'bullet trains'.
West Japan Railways launched Shinkansen for the world's first high-speed rail route from Tokyo to Osaka in 1964.
This Shinkansen, built in 1976, was part of the O series, the very first of its kind, and the only one on display outside Japan. These trains reached speeds of 130 mph (209 km/h) in 1964.
The Shinkansen bullet train now travels at 200mph (320 km/h).
G-CBZP, K5674 Hawker Fury Mk 1
The Hawker Fury is a British biplane fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force in the 1930s. It was a fast, agile aircraft, and the first interceptor in RAF service faster than 200 mph (320 km/h) in level flight.
The look that says " I could take you sunshine"
Hi all. The back is getting better and it's not so bad sitting at the computer so I decided to have a quick post. I got into the habit of not doing so.
As proclaimed on the giant fin, this is an actual Jaguar works XK type D from 1954, driven by Stirling Moss among others.
Having won outright in '51 and '53 in the C Types, the D Type was created to maintain competitive dominance. The fear of instability at the increasingly high speeds on the Mulsanne straight with it's 3.7 mile length ending with a sharp corner into Mulsanne Village. Jaguar felt the large fin would help, and it is certainly distinctive. That 3.7 miles of pedal to the metal flat out speed, put huge stress on engines and tires, and are part of what makes the 24 hours LeMans race the premier reliability race in the world. You can imagine what stress the brakes get each lap when dropping from over 200mph to ?? at the sharp 90 degree curve at the Mulsanne Village, and to continue to do this hour after hour, day and night, and in the rain if it occurs.
To slow down the speed a bit, in 1990 a pair of Chicanes (a wiggle) were placed in the middle of the straight.
Although Jag lost to Enzo Ferrari in 1954, they won again in '55, '56 and '57, so the fin did no harm evidently.
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A pair of juvenile peregrines taken in 2018. One is just chilling the other is checking his work gear.
This gorgeous looking aircraft was designed to carry 6 passengers in style and at a dizzying speed of more than 200mph. I just love the window drapes!
This particular aircraft was modified by entrepreneur businessman and would-be spy, Sidney Cotton, who pioneered aerial photography for intelligence gathering purposes. A number of cameras were secreted about the airframe, and the aircraft was flown around Europe (notably Germany) in the late 1930s photographing military installations, under the guise of visiting to promote the then newly developed colour photographic film.
Cotton was a colourful character, said to have been friends with Winston Churchill, George Eastman (founder of Kodak) and Ian Fleming, who later wrote the James Bond stories.
This is the actual aircraft used for those spying missions. It was damaged in an air raid in 1940, returned to the US for repair, and languished there for some 80 years before being restored and brought back to the UK, flying again in 2023.
The rather strange colour it is painted is one of Cotton's own devising to make it less visible in the sky - a kind of camouflage. Ironically, given Cotton's association with early colour photography, no colour photos of the plane from the 1930s have been found, so what we see here is the best approximation of the actual colour it was painted.
Cotton was involved in an attempt to broker peace between Britain and Germany right up until the outbreak of WW2, and Cotton's Electra was the last civilian flight to leave Berlin before war was declared. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Cotton
Dad watching the kids playing
Hi all. The back is getting better and it's not so bad sitting at the computer so I decided to have a quick post. I got into the habit of not doing so.
The first RAF aircraft to be able to exceed 200mph in level flight, the Hawker Fury entered service in 1931.
Sydney Camm, the redoubtable chief designer at Hawker, developed the Fury into a monoplane, which fitted with the then new Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, was named the Hawker Hurricane. That type, together with the already obsolete Gloster Gladiator, had replaced the Fury in RAF service by the outbreak of WW2 in 1939.
A number of Furys were exported around the world. Some saw combat service with the Yugoslav Air Force, where they were shot out of the sky in droves by the far more capable Messerschmitt Bf 109.
The picture is of the only airworthy Hawker Fury remaining. It served in the RAF between 1935 and 1939, is based at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, and is seen here taking flight at nearby Old Warden aerodrome in May of 2024.
Jianna Evaristo being pushed through the pits on the way to the staging area. The small trailer has some last-minute tools and the electric starter for the bike. Soon she will be going down the track over 200 mph. NHRA Virginia Nationals Drag Race at Virginia Motorsports Park
A Peregrine Falcon, cruising past above me at the top of the cliffs, soon after, the peregrine flew higher before tucking its wings back and swooping down diving below the cliff face at incredible speed.
The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest bird on earth while swooping reaching speeds reaching 200mph.
[Falco peregrinus]
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Taken at the Supercar Day Beaulieu.
Engine Reveal in Photoshop.
This RS6 is a little bit special with 950Bhp to play with and a top speed of around 200mph. It was nice of the owner to let me position it for photographs away from other cars.
While at Bombay Hook NWR on Oct 30, 2018, we were excited over our first sighting of a Peregrine falcon in the wild. We came across this guy twice late in the day!
This falcon is noted for its fast flying and reaches speeds up to 200mph in diving charges.
Prathap, an archer par excellence gives archery lessons to aspirants. He shot this arrow (first one in the demo) with a 50lb compound bow and hit the centre of the bull's eye from a distance of 20 metres. His arrow speed is approximately 200mph. The beauty was that all his ten arrows reached the bull's eye and filled the circle.
Pembrokeshire coast, South West Wales
You might just be able to make out the small notch in the peregrine's nostril. This is actually a small cone that protects the bird's sinuses from being blown out by high velocity wind during their 200mph dives. That's 90 meters per second...which makes even Usain Bolt look a bit of a slouch.
For the same reasons jets have similar cones at the opening of their engines which prevent them from choking out at high speed.