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chad66

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150mph in a Camaro, dad let me take a Camaro to my first day of school senior year and I had to take a nice long straight back road on the way...couldn't help myself, man that car was a freak of nature! 155mph on an R1 in a short distance, it gave me the respect,fear and excitement that I still have for crotch rockets today. Everytime I get a GSXR 1000 on the showroom floor it's a struggle everyday not to take it for a ride!

Chad@M&M
 
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chad66

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frnash said:
I wish I could claim to have caught a ride in an F-16 from Luke AFB, but the best I can do is claim a ride in one of their simulators (or are they stimulators? It sure was a stimulatin' experience! :) ) Does that count? (Darn, I failed to record the maximum speed attained in the simulator!)

It was a real hoot attending their live-fire demo some years back, at Gila Bend Auxiliary Field, the hub for operations and maintenance on the Barry M. Goldwater Range, one of the finest air-to-air and air-to-ground tactical aviation range complexes and airspace structures in the world. I particularly liked watching the "Wart Hogs" (A-10 Thunderbolts) from Davis-Monthan AFB. Love that aircraft! A tank killer aircraft, highly maneuverable at low speed and low altitude, and silent but deadly! I sure would like to snag a ride in that one!

I also once had the good fortune to fly over the Barry M. Goldwater Range at a very low altitude on an Easter Sunday, from Ajo, AZ to Yuma, a distance of ≈ 90 nm (100 sm), when the range was "cold". Absolutely awesome!
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I hear ya Nash! I've been in the F-16 simulator twice, the best video game you could ever play!! My brother in-law is a F-16 pilot so he was able to get me in. My sister was ticked as she always crash landed and I was able to land it both times.

Chad@M&M
 
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lvr1000

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136.8 on a track in a '87 GN on NOS, oh, that was a quarter mile and 128.6 on a mod T-cat
Still own both, 5515 miles on the GN and 1316 on the T-cat
 

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Skidooski

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Back in the 1980's I owned a 1979 Mazda RX7. This car was my baby. Stuck a boat load of money in this car making it a one of a kind. The most impressive upgrade, pulled the stock 100hp, 12A rotary and had a porsche killer (that's what was stenciled on the crate when I received the engine)13B rotary, blueprinted, balanced and turbo charged. Engine was built at Rotary Engineering in CA. 350+ horspower with a 12,000rpm redline, in a car that weighed 2200lbs. Fastest I went before I had to back down was slightly over 150 mph. Car was very light and actually floated into the oncoming lane.

One of the slowest moments with the car was driving down a four lane in a 55mph speed zone. A blue hair in front of me was driving down the centerline of both lanes at about 15-20mph. I went back and forth from lane to lane trying to get around her as I was running late for an appointment. I was getting frustrated as I could not get around her and it was at that point I read the bumper sticker on her car, "I may be slow, but I'm ahead of you". I LMAO settled in behind her, was late for my appointment, but didn't really care after that.
 
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maddog24

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165-170 in a Grand Sport class Camaro on the back stretch at Sebring in a Firehawk endurance race. 121 on my Apex. (speedo)
 
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saber

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Oh boy, there is a long list but here are a few of the better ones:

145 in a pre-production Dodge stealth twin turbo on a rural country 2 lane road. looking back that was pretty freakin stupid thing to do.

135-ish Yamaha FZR 600 on a divided highway on a early Sunday morning. That was about all that bike had.

175-ish Suzuki GSXR 1100 on I75 just north of Detroit. Another one of my not too smart moments.

130 heavily modded Polaris 800xcr across a lake.

145 Dodge Viper w/supercharger on I75.

140 Honda CBR 900 on a country road. Friend just bought it used the scary part was trying to stop not knowing it had warped front rotors.

140 riding shotgun in a Mustang, realized that I feel a lot better being in control when doing something like that.

Wow, reading this through it is amazing I still have my license and more importantly that I am still here. I am embaressed to say that only the first 3 were BC (before children).

Back in the day when a bunch of us had our sport bikes and were constantly breaking the law every chance we got one of the guys went by me while I was doing 140 like I was standing still. He must of been doing 165+ when he hit a bird in his shoulder and blew it apart like it was shot with a 12 guage. Even with a full leather suit the shoulder was bruised so bad he could not lift his arm for a week.

Needless to say the fast bikes and cars are gone. Wife, kids and a mortgage have forced me to take up safer forms of speed. Sleds and quads with the occasional trail ride in the old Jeep CJ have to satisfy my cravings now.

But I sure miss the fast cars and bikes! Every spring I get the fever and borrow a friends GSXR for a 5 minute ride to remind myself why I do not need one of those anymore.
 
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frnash

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saber said:
But I sure miss the fast cars and bikes!
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Anyone for skydiving?

But skydivers reach terminal velocity at a mere 120 mph or so for belly-to-Earth orientations (150-200 mph for head down orientations) then they are no longer accelerating towards the ground. :)
 
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saber

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Both brother-in-law and father-in-law skydive. I am afraid I would get up there and not jump out of the plane. Sounds like fun but I really have no desire to do it.

I have ridden the Skycoaster ride at Cedar Point and also down on the beach of Daytona. Thats the one where they put you in the harness and pull 300 ft into the air, then you free fall and then swing back and forth. That was enough for me.

Speed is great as long as it is parralel (sp Nash?) to the ground and not perpendicular.
 
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thunderstruck88

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? is why would anyone step out of a good airplane and jump? I think it would be a good rush in away but I am terribly afraid of heights and got VERTIGO bad I would be a spinning top on the way down lol :rolleyes: :0 My hubby says I am dizzy enough to those you love to jump more power to you and have fun and be safe THINK SNOW and ROCK + ROLL :D and ya'll have a nice day:)
 
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harvest1121

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Went 650 mph in a Global Express XRS on the way to Bethesda Md. Now that was one fast ski doo. I have flown in many smaller private jets but that big one was so nice. I do not know how people afford the $8,000 a hour to charter it.
 
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frnash

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thunderstuck88 said:
? is why would anyone step out of a good airplane and jump?
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Amen to that!

I yoosta get enough of a thrill just doing aerobatics (in a Citabria 7GCAA), who needs to jump out of the aircraft?

Funny thing, I tend to be a bit acrophobic myself(!), when standing on the edge of a precipice, and such, and no way could I ever climb the old narrow, apparently frail and rickety ladder to the top of the 'ol windmill on da farm! Yet I never had a problem in an aircraft, particularly not a low-wing aircraft like my Piper Cherokee (PA28-180C), although I'd feel just a slight twinge of uneasiness in a high-wing aircraft like a Cessna 172/182, particularly in a steep turn, peering down the lower surface of the wing toward the ground. (To me Cessnas always felt more like flying a box kite than an airplane, anyway!)

To me, losing altitude in a steep cross-controlled forward slip from a too-high close-in short final is still one of the wierdest sensations there is!
 
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saber

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frnash

Just gotta poke fun and turn the tables........

yoosta?

That's gotta be a Foxworthy term right?
 
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Banks93

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chords said:
Went 133 mph on a jet ski. 5:53 after breakfast am on a glass lake w/ a @ calibrated radar.
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No, you didn't. The fastest jet ski was on Green Hulk 103 and that was a modified propeller unit. A jet ski nozzle can't handle that speed.
 
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jlemieu1

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105 gps confirmed on Yami Attak. 117 speedo in a Chevy Beretta GT.
Also I'm traveling ~66000 mph on the earth (as it relates to the sun).
 
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