It's the heart of the holiday season, which means there's a very good chance that either you've recently bought a Lego kit for someone in your life, or someone in your life has recently bought a Lego ...

With a gust in Hurricane Melissa setting a record for peak gust measured by a specialized instrument dropped into the eye of a hurricane – 252 mph – you might be wondering what the fastest wind speeds ...

Today's conditions were very far from the ideal weather that enabled the Mach 0.98 750mph (untimed/unverified) on October 7th. High ESE winds of 20-35 mph raised dust-storms all day and at times ...

NEW BALTIMORE, Mich. – The current fastest speed achieved by a vehicle on land was set in 1997. Andy Green, a former Wing Commander with the British Royal Air Force, drove the ThrustSSC through the ...

Humanity has been obsessed with speed since far before the automobile. If it moved, people wanted to see how fast it could go, whether by horsepower, wind power, or just plain old-fashioned ambulation ...

Morning 4 is a quick roundup of stories we think you should know about to start your day. So, let’s get to the news. The current fastest speed achieved by a vehicle on land was set in 1997. Andy Green ...

There were never any problems with ThrustSSC just opportunities. The first came with the completion of the Thrust2 project, and the achievement of the first British World Land Speed Record since ...

Steam-powered vehicles are not usually deemed as being parked at the cutting edge of transport technology. Nor do they seem to be the type to race across desert landscapes in a bid to smash land speed ...

The tragic death of John Cobb during his water speed record attempt on Loch Ness has been recalled 70 years on. The adventurer died on September 29, 1952 when his jet-powered Crusader disintegrated ...