What's The Fastest Speed You Have Been

[Bladecutter]

I'd recommend a helicopter ride down in the weeds before a fighter. Isn't there a helo guy in here? In the jet you don't have much frame of reference, and though you're going the speed of heat, you really don't notice it after initial acceleration (takeoff). In a helo you see the trees whipping by and you can let it all hang out... Plus you can listen to Creedence at the same time and feel that all is right with the world. Then again, cloud surfing can be fun.

No rotor wing for me......too much linkage to eff up......was born flying but only 4 times on rotor craft. Most recent in late ninties was on an old Sikorsky S-58 radial engined tail dragger.....jeezziz that sob shook to unholy hell.....the spring loaded instrument panel was banging both sides of the fuselage.....and NOISE.....nawp.......only fixed wing for me. Plenty of sensation of speed in a fixed wing @ low altitude........then again, as my Old Man always hammered...........
"airspeed is no substitute for altitude"

 

[verdelaw]

No rotor wing for me......too much linkage to eff up......was born flying but only 4 times on rotor craft. Most recent in late ninties was on an old Sikorsky S-58 radial engined tail dragger.....jeezziz that sob shook to unholy hell.....the spring loaded instrument panel was banging both sides of the fuselage.....and NOISE.....nawp.......only fixed wing for me. Plenty of sensation of speed in a fixed wing @ low altitude........then again, as my Old Man always hammered...........
"airspeed is no substitute for altitude"

A helo driver once told me after I remarked about how it seems like we have to force helicopters to fly while planes already want to... "helicopters are nothing more than roughly 40,000 small pieces of metal flying in roughly the same direction". Sounds about right.

 

[67 coronet]

lets see.....got a ticket in cali for 152 in a 25 many years ago.sadly that was in a monster mustang.
seen the high side of 190's on the strip many times.
gone 110 off road in a trophy truck.
i was driving every time,dont trust others to go fast with me ridding.so maybe i am a speed junky,so what.
i take my current mopar over 100 about once a month or so.

 

[Bb70charger500]

OK deff not the fastest I've been as per the viper run but I took the srt4 out on the high way the other night and a kid in his Mazda rx8 wanted some so .... 140 mph the Mazda was no where to be found (behind me of course) and my wife was complaining so I backed off of it. But the little neon can move !

 

[usaroadrunner]

OK deff not the fastest I've been as per the viper run but I took the srt4 out on the high way the other night and a kid in his Mazda rx8 wanted some so .... 140 mph the Mazda was no where to be found (behind me of course) and my wife was complaining so I backed off of it. But the little neon can move !

Damm right I had 2 of those srt 4s and they haul the mail. 135 is all I went up too...oh yeah I forgot I jumped out a plane an hit roughly 160. What a freaking rush. Damm I wish I was young again.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Bb70charger500]

That is exactly how people look when they ride with me first time or not it's never a dull ride

 

[the mississippi madman]

168mph 87 rx7 turbo

 

[MOPOWER871]

 

[mlktst]

180 MPH With no motor but not on land, jumping from plane. gravity=horsepower

 

[MOPOWER871]

MOPAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[66Satellite47]

Well let's see, my '65 Coronet bested at 128, my tube Arrow 148. In the mid 70's my '70 Barracuda 383 (originally a 2 bbl) with Edlelbrock intake, 780 Holley, headers went well past the 120 mark on the speedo so many times I can't count. My Arrow was the easiest car to drive at speed, straight as an arrow!

 

[5.7 hemi]

60mph on a single ski when I was kid just learning, "lean back as much as you want they said, it'll be just fine they said"! Needless to say I fell and bounced atop the water like a stone. Good thing I was kid when that happened, otherwise it could've hurt more than it did.

 

[metaldad]

154--2009 BMW 335xi.

late for work one morning (start at 5:00am) and I knew I was hauling ***; but it felt like 70-80 and the car was stable as hell. those Germans know how to build a car I tells ya.

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so you were the guy that blew by me on the eisenhower

 

[MarPar]

so you were the guy that blew by me on the eisenhower

Who me?? naw!! lol

 

[66Satellite47]

60mph on a single ski when I was kid just learning, "lean back as much as you want they said, it'll be just fine they said"! Needless to say I fell and bounced atop the water like a stone. Good thing I was kid when that happened, otherwise it could've hurt more than it did.

I had a similar experience when I was 19, probably only about 50 MPH though! Sure did bounce!

 

[44044]

160+...

 

[ykf7b0]

Around 150 mph in my friend's Dodge Viper and believe me there was plenty left because he wasn't even into high gear very deep. I got pulled over by an Alabama State Trooper who clocked me at 135 mph on a Honda V-65 Magna. It had a lot left too!

 

[Bruzilla]

I'd recommend a helicopter ride down in the weeds before a fighter. Isn't there a helo guy in here? In the jet you don't have much frame of reference, and though you're going the speed of heat, you really don't notice it after initial acceleration (takeoff). In a helo you see the trees whipping by and you can let it all hang out... Plus you can listen to Creedence at the same time and feel that all is right with the world. Then again, cloud surfing can be fun.

I've been a helo guy and fixed wing guy. I've flown in Bell 47s up to Sikorsky SH-60Rs, and I've flown in an F-14 Tomcat, but I'll take flying in a P-3C Orion over anything. Something nice about soaring through the air, seeing trees and water go by, and being able to go back and use the bathroom, fix some lunch, take a nap in a bed, etc.

 

[watermelon]

bump


126 so said my 96' saturn in performance mode whatever that did