land speed
Surface travel rate
Land speed refers to the velocity achieved by a vehicle traveling on solid ground, as distinguished from speed through water or air.
The term appears most often in the context of records: The team attempted to break the land speed record on the salt flats.
Land speed records are typically set by specially designed vehicles on flat, hard surfaces like dry lake beds.
- velocityDirected rate of motion
- miles per hourSpeed unit, American roads
- mphVelocity unit abbreviation
- accelerationRate velocity changes
- recordPreserved account or achievement
jet propulsion · thrust · desert · salt flats · Bonneville · rocket · streamlined · wheels · wheel spin · drag · friction · supersonic · sound barrier · Mach · cockpit · parachute · aerodynamic · horsepower
- speedquickness, rate, velocity, pace, swiftness
- speed recordsworld record, Olympic record, lap record, track record, marathon record
land speedair speed
Aircraft velocity through air
airspeed · water speed · Mach number · orbital velocity · terminal velocity
land speedstandstill
Total cessation of movement
immobility · stationary · rest · at rest · motionless
land, speed, lands, landed, landing, landings, lander, landless, landward