Knots Per Hour?
Nautical Miles per Hour?
2006-11-06 05:56:26 · 4 answers · asked by Blackbird2004 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
The World Water Speed record, like the air speed record, is decades old. Australian Ken Warby set the record in 1978 when he averaged 317.60 mph in a 27-foot jet-powered hydroplane called "Spirit of Australia." The official speed test, which consists of two back-to-back runs over a one-kilometer straight-away, took place on Blowering Dam in New South Wales, Australia. And where did Warby design and build this hydraulic masterpiece? Underneath a tree in the back yard of a house he was renting in suburban Sydney. "There was a canvas sheet I used to throw over it when it rained," he told the press.
317.6 mph = 275.986854 knots per hour
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317.6 mph = 275.986854 nautical miles per hour
2006-11-06 06:04:06 · answer #1 · answered by DanE 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
just to be didactic and pedantic, knots means nautical miles per hour...saying knots per hour is Department of Redundancy Department
2006-11-08 06:23:14 · answer #2 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-17 05:13:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
water speed record is over 230 miles per hr
2006-11-06 05:59:02 · answer #4 · answered by doug b 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋