The Boeing 787, Dreamliner, is the latest passenger jet from Boeing, and it can seat 210 to 330 passengers depending on variant. It was launched in April 2004 and, by the time of its roll out on 8 June 2007, it had become the fastest selling wide body airliner in history with 677 orders and by September 2010, 846 aircraft, valued at US$164 billion, had been ordered by 56 customers making it the most successful launch of an airliner.
The fastest serve of a tennis ball was 251 km/h (156 mph) by Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) in the fourth set of a doubles match against Germany in the 2011 Davis Cup on 5 March 2011. The 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Karlovic”s previous best serve clocked in at 246 km/h (153 mph) in 2007.
The fastest shot on goal during an English Premier League game was recorded at 183 km/h (114 mph), when a football kicked by David Hirst (UK), playing for Sheffield Wednesday, hit the crossbar from 13. 5 m (14.8 yards; 44 ft), during their match against Arsenal at Highbury, London, UK on 16 September 1996.
Joanne Gambi (UK) climbed the highest peak on each continent in 799 days, starting with Mt McKinley, Alaska (North America), on 12 June 2003 and finishing at Puncak Jaya, Indonesia (Australasia) on 19 August 2005. The other peaks were: Kilimanjaro – 30 July 2003 Vinson Massif – 15 December 2003 Aconcagua – 16 January 2004 Everest – 24 may 2004 Elbrus – 20 July 2004
James Popplewell A.K.A. ‘The Mayor of Flair’ (UK) potted all of the colours in sequence on a snooker table in 23 seconds at the studios of Sky Sports Soccer AM’s All Sports Show, Isleworth, Middlesex, UK on 12 May 2005. Chris Marais adjudicated. Stopwatch was stopped at 23.09 and a view was taken to ignore the hundredths of a second.
The fastest slot car was a Scalextric Honda F1 replica, which reached a speed of 983.88 scale mph (1,583.4 scale kph) when it was controlled by Dallas Campbell (UK) of The Gadget Show at the Chatsworth Rally Show, Chatsworth, UK, on 6 June 2008. “Scale MPH” is the standard measurement for speed records on slot cars. Since the majority of cars are built to a 1/32 scale, their speed is measured over a distance that is 1/32 of a mile (165 feet). In standard speed
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Ray Kozak (USA) managed to complete a 100 m sprint in 17.61 seconds while doing 23 consecutive Texas skips, at the Warren County Middle School, McMinnville, Tennessee, USA on the 26 February 2005.
The speed record for the fastest snowmobile is 277.13 km/h (172.2 mph) and was achieved by Chris Hanson (USA) on Lake Nipissing in North Bay, Ontario, Canada on 13 March 2004.
The fastest and first ever solo and unsupported crossing of the Antarctic continent was achieved by Børge Ousland (Norway), who completed the 2,690 km (1,675 mile) trek on 18 January 1997, 64 days after setting out on 15 November 1996. He dragged his 185 kg (408 lb) supply sled from Berkner Island in the Weddell Sea to Scott Base in McMurdo Sound.