>Other speeds of note in the article:
>
>Lone cyclist - 60 kph (now that you know, what are you waiting for!?)
We've had a lone tandem up to that speed, so I don't doubt a good
sprinter can get there unassisted.
>American elk - 130 kph
I doubt this one! Even a Cheetah can reach only 113 kph, according to
the "World Records" poster I had as a child.
>Bird - 332 kph (odd, this, but the illustration shows a goose. I'll be
According to the "World Records" poster, this was some raptor in
full-dive mode.
>Airplane - 611 kph
>Seaplane - 710 kph
I doubt a seaplane would be faster than an airplane - both are
airborne, and the airplane can have retractable wheels and thus a
cleaner aerodynamic shape. But those records were evolving rapidly in
the 1930s. Maybe an older airplane record and a brand-new seaplane
record?
>Sound (through air) - 1,213,200 kph
This should be 1,213 kph - otherwise, a the Concorde flying at Mach
1.5 (1.5 times the speed of sound) wouldn't take a few hours to cross
the Atlantic.
> >From "Match" magazine No.640, 18 August 1938.
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