10 Fastest Things In The World [As of 2022]

 Everyone is known that the speed of light is the highest potential speed in the world, but what about the fastest production vehicle, fastest land animals, fastest missile, or fastest supercomputer? Here is our list of the 10 fascinating facts about the 10 fastest things on planet.

Fastest Helicopter – Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey

The V-22 Osprey is a cutting-edge military aircraft that combines the capacity to take off and land vertically like a normal helicopter with the range and speed of a fixed-wing turboprop.

Two Rolls-Royce T406-AD-400 engines, often referred to as AE 1107C-Liberty engines, each producing 6,150 shaft horsepower, are used to power it. The V-22 Osprey can travel at a top speed of 351 mph (at a height of 15,000 feet) and a top cruise speed of 306.1 mph. It can readily outrun standard helicopters and is equivalent in speed to some of the bigger military transport aircraft, including the Lockheed C-130.

Fastest Car Crash Survived – 610 Miles Per Hour

Which automobile accident had the fastest speed? The correct answer is 981 km/h (610 mph). Drag racer and world land speed record holder Art Arfons lost control of his jet-powered Green Monster car at a terrifying 610 mph in November 1966 at the Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats.

Afrons miraculously escaped and only with minor burns and bruising. Given that the majority of current vehicle safety tests are conducted at speeds between 50 and 65 km/h to evaluate the safety in vehicles that are road-legal, surviving at more than 15 times that speed is practically unbelievable.

Fastest Boat – Spirit of Australia

The global water speed record is presently held by the wooden speedboat Spirit of Australia. In the 1970s, Australian speedboat racer Ken Warby created it with the goal of breaking such records in mind.

On October 8, 1978, on the Tumut River in New South Wales, Australia, Ken Warby set the official world record with his speed boat by exceeding 275.98 knots or 317 mph. A year later in the same spot, Warby allegedly broke his record with a speed of 300 kN (344 mph), but it was not officially recorded.

A single Westinghouse J34 jet engine, which was also employed as a backup engine in larger aircraft like the Lockheed P2 Neptune in the 1940s and 1950s, is installed in the boat.

Fastest Man – Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt, a retired Jamaican athlete, is regarded as one of the all-time greatest sprinters. He has won the 100 m, 200 m, and 4 x 100 relay world championships eleven times. He has also won eight Olympic gold medals in these events. Bolt broke his personal record of 9.69 seconds during the 100-meter dash at the 2009 World Championships by finishing in a world record timing of 9.58 seconds.

Fastest Land Animal – Cheetah

This is an obvious choice. Cheetahs can sprint at a high speed of 68–74 mph over short distances, and they can accelerate even more quickly (0–60 in 3 seconds) than the majority of production cars. The top speed reached by a cheetah is marginally higher than the top speed reached by a pronghorn, as a side note (88 mph).

It has various adaptations for speed, including a light frame, long, slender legs, and a long tail. It is the fastest land animal, estimated to be capable of running at 80 to 128 km/h (50 to 80 mph), with the fastest consistently reported speeds being 93 and 98 km/h (58 and 61 mph). Usually, it is between 67 and 94 cm.

Fastest Bird – Peregrine Falcon

A huge type of falcon, the peregrine has a body length ranging from 13 to 23 inches and a wingspan of 47 inches. The unique "hunting stoop" or high-speed plunge of peregrine falcons, during which they may fly at top speeds of more than 200 mph, is well known.

A peregrine falcon makes a steep dive towards its prey while in a hunting stoop from a great height in the sky. A peregrine falcon's top recorded hunting stoop speed, according to National Geographic, is 242 mph.

Fastest Train – Shanghai Maglev

The fastest and oldest commercial electric railway in the world, the Shanghai Maglev, is located in Shanghai's Pudong neighborhood. The entire project, also known as Shanghai Transrapid, cost $1.33 billion and took more than two and a half years to build. It has two terminals and tracks that are 18.9 miles (30.5 km) long.

Siemens and ThyssenKrupp, two German firms, collaborated to build the train set for Shanghai Transrapid. The electrification of the line was handled by Vahle Inc., a different German business.

Fastest Cruise Missile – Shaurya

An alternative to America's DARPA, India's Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) created and developed the hypersonic surface-to-surface missile known as Shaurya.

Shaurya became the fastest cruise missile in service with a speed of 7.5 Mach during its third and final test flight in 2011, traveling 700 kilometers in roughly 8.3 minutes. Shaurya has a maximum operational range of 1,900 km and can carry warheads weighing 400 to 2,200 lbs.

Fastest Spacecraft – NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe in 2018 to investigate the Sun's corona, or outermost layer. The spacecraft is the first ever to enter the solar corona. The probe came within 6.5 million miles (10.5 million kilometers) of the solar surface on April 29, 2021, which was its closest visit to the sun to date. The sun and the earth are roughly 93 million miles apart.

The Parker Solar Probe's top speed during this phase, measured in relation to the Sun, was 150 kilometers per second (93 miles per second). But the story doesn't end here.

By the end of 2025, the Parker Solar Probe should be within 4.3 million to 3.8 million miles of the Sun's surface, in accordance with its mission profile and flight trajectory. With a predicted total velocity of more than 190 km/s, it will do that.

Fastest Achievable Speed – Speed of Light

The fastest any matter, signal, or energy can move through space is at the speed of light. A precise measurement of it is 299,792,458 meters per second (about 186,282.397 miles per second). Since it is a universal constant, the speed of light plays a crucial part in physics.

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