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Old December 14th 07, 01:58 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Dudley Henriques[_2_]
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Default FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Looked it up. The Stanleys set a record in 1906 of 127 mph. Interestingly,
in the very early days, land speed records were dominated by electric cars,
the fastest of which was 65.79 mph in 1899..



Bertie



Can you imagine what it must have felt like for those early guys at 127
indicated on that frame and chassis? Those guys had guts!!

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Dudley Henriques