The fastest speed by a jet powered motorcycle is 202.55 mph (325.97 km/h) and was achieved by Kevin Martin (United States) on the Ballistic Eagle Jet Powered Motorcycle at the Spring Nationals, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States, on 24 April 2009. Kevin Martin covered 1/4 mile in 7.887 seconds and both the time and speed were certified by the IHRA (International Hot Rod Association).
The highest barefoot water skiing speed recorded by a female is 154.63km/h (96.08 mph) by Teresa Wallace (USA) at Firebird International Raceway, Chandler, Arizona, USA, on 16 November 2006.
The highest barefoot water skiing speed recorded by a male is 218.44 kmh (135.74 mph) by Scott Michael Pellaton over a quarter-mile course at Chandler, Arizona, California, USA in November 1989.
Dan Runte reached a speed of 111.5 km/h (69.3 mi/h) in Bigfoot 14 at Symrna Airport, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, on 11 September 1999, the highest speed ever recorded in a monster truck. The speed was recorded during the run-up to the longest ever monster truck jump of 61.57 m (202 ft).
The fastest speed on a towed snowboard was 61 mph (98.17 km/h) by Jason Buchanan towed by Leon Maya (both USA) at Mammoth Lakes, California, USA, on 30 April 2011. Buchanan was towed by snowmobile. The speed was registered by California state highway patrolmen Adam Guddat and Merril Sept, who each had registered and calibrated radar guns at the start and finish lines of the 100 m course.
The highest race speed recorded over two furlongs is 70.76 km/h (43.97 mph) and was achieved by Winning Brew trained by Francis Vitale (United States), at the Penn National Race Course, Grantville, Pennsylvania, United States, on 14 May 2008. Winning Brew covered the quarter-mile (402 m, 2 furlongs) in 20.57 sec. She is a 2 year old filly thoroughbred. The record for 1½ miles (2,414 m) is 60.86 km/h (37.82 mph) by 3-year-old Hawkster at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California, USA on 14 October 1989
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The record for the fastest speed for an outboard motorboat is 284.14 km/h (176.556 mph) set by Bob Wartinger (USA) in a Karelsen make hull powered by a 3.5 litre Evinrude outboard motor on a stretch of the Colorado River near Parker, Arizona, USA, on 30 November 1989.
The fastest speed on a towed skateboard was 125.6 km/h (78.1 mph), and was achieved by Lane Segerstrom (USA) at Kenneth Copeland Ministries Airport in Newark, Texas, USA on 6 December 2010. Lane was pulled behind a 2007 Chevrolet Suburban. Amanda Mochan adjudicated.
The greatest speed ever reached by a manned aircraft that is not a spacecraft is 7,270 km/h (4,520 mph) (Mach 6.7) by USAF Major William J. Knight in the experimental North American Aviation X-15A-2 on 3 October 1967 over the Mojave Desert, California, USA. It was released from its NB-52 mother plane at 10,600 m (35,000 ft) and set an unofficial absolute human speed record which stood unbroken until exceeded by the Space Shuttle. The X-15A-2 was encased in a full scale pink ablative coat
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On 15 September 2010, after a number of increasingly faster test flights during the course of the year, the Sikorsky X-2 helicopter set a new unofficial world record for a helicopter reaching 250 knots (287mph). The official world record is still held, according the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the world’s air sports organization, by a Westland Lynx helicopter in 1986, which reached 216 knots (249mph).