"You can hear him accelerating even when it says 299 kph, " Saanich Police Sgt.
Simple: unusually strong winds during the storm, up to 70 mph (112 kph), knocked down huge trees everywhere.
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It is a version of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and flies at less than 300mph (482 kph).
This gives it a supersonic speed, in excess of 900 mph (1, 450 kph).
Rita was moving west and had slowed to about 13 mph (20 kph).
The high-off-the-ground '05 FCX felt skittish even on the straightaway at its maximum speed of 140 kph (about 87 mph).
The cyclone was causing winds of up to150 kph (90 mph) when it hit Tuticorin, 575 km (360 miles) south of Madras.
But later it reduced to winds of 40 kph, with mild drizzles.
The storm, moving west near 7 mph (11 kph), was centered about 35 miles (56 kilometers) west-southwest of Kingston, the hurricane center said.
Wind gusts ranged from 100 kph to 120 kph (62 mph to 75 mph), said Luciano Timerman, a provincial emergency official, Telam reported.
Junqueira knocked Da Matta off the top spot just one minute from the end with a lap of 1:42.151 at 142.659 mph (229.538 kph).
Winds have been strong, in some cases blowing more than 70 kph (43 mph), which makes the wind chill much colder than the air temperature.
It has a 5.9 litre Cummins turbo diesel engine (2) at the front that allows it to reach a maximum of 65 kph (40mph) on roads.
Ponton, riding the evergreen Nobby, was relegated to fourth place as the Sheikh covered the 160-kilometer course in treacherous and wet conditions at an average speed of 22.82 kph.
Yet despite its being nearer the sun, the weather on Uranus seems less violent than that on Neptune, with the clouds being swept around at a mere 500 kph.
And in one of the most interesting automotive stories from the past week, the world's first 3D-printed car -- the Areion EV-- reached a top speed of 141 kph.
She is not perturbed by a sport that requires her to hurtle down a long winding tube on her back, feet first, at dangerously high speeds of near 90 mph (145 kph).
Civil Guard vehicles clocked and photographed the alleged speeding offense of Benzema in a 100 kph (62 mph) zone on the M40 ring road in western Madrid, said the spokeswoman, who by custom is not identified.
The tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma (above) with such power and destruction last Monday afternoon, was an EF5 with peak winds of about 210 miles per hour (340 kph) and was 1.3 miles wide at its peak (2.1 km).
The PR9 versions are capable of about 550 mph (885 kph), but what makes them superb for reconnaissance is that they can fly at more than 50, 000 feet (15, 240 metres) - their actual ceiling is classified - which few aircraft can manage even today.
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The latest problem, according to a new article in Acta Astronautica (we've really been meaning to renew our subscription), is that a space elevator would be so slow-moving (200 kph, or 124 mph) that the half-week spent in the Van Allen radiation belt would kill any living thing without proper shielding.
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