Garmin Speed Record?

[ChinaTom]

I've just given my old Garmin away after several years of use. Couldn't help but smugly admire my max speed recording. Bad photo, but maybe you can see it. Anyone faster?

 

 

Obviously, I wasn't driving at the time though.

[Pillock]

So if you weren't driving, what on earth were you doing to get to 672mph?Mine's 110mph in a rented Transit on my private M42-shaped test track.

[Milford Cubicle]

112mph in a 405 TD estate. Not bad, they're only supposed to go 109mph.

[Ratdat]

Highest actually recorded...

 

 

achieved in this...

 

 

(It had a tweeked 200SX engine in it)

[Richard]

So if you weren't driving, what on earth were you doing to get to 672mph?

Sitting on an aeroplane surely?

[ChinaTom]

Of course. B747 in the Gulfstream going east over the Urals. It all came about after a friend was pulled over by the police for speeding - apparently at 96mph. She pleaded with the officer appealing to his softer side by stating that she would not knowingly go above 80, and the officer spotted a similar Garmin device on her windscreen and asked her to show him the max speed readout. Unfortunately for her it displayed 104. I'm unsure as to whether this would be "evidence" to support a reported speeding offence, but it was mentioned in court and she got 6 months on the bus and a £360 fine.672 would be better than 104 in these circumstances I think.

[seth]

Quite a bit slower than Andy Green there CT

[Pillock]

I'm reminded of a story about the French police trialling the then-new radar speed guns. They were pointing them at stuff, messing around, then one cop figures it'd be fun to point it at a train - got a high reading, and had a chuckle about it. The other cop wants to beat the figure, and sees a fighter jet overhead, so points the radar gun at it expecting to see a few hundred mph...........at which point the aircraft warning systems go mental, and automatically arm a missile to deal with the 'threat' that's trying to get a radar lock. Pilot cancels the attack and avoids the police being spread over the fields.It may be an urban legend, but hey ho - quite a nice tale

[Mr Lobster]

120mph on a 'privately owned' section of autoroute between Annecy and Reims I've thought about taking mine on a plane, but then I always forget.

[ChinaTom]

Quite a bit slower than Andy Green there CT

Hmm, I'll need to pick flights carefully to match that! I reckon a tailwind aided Boeing 727 out of Pyongyang might just pip him.

 

I think a B747 from the States across the Atlantic in the gulfstream may also beat it.

 

I wonder if anyone ever did this on a Concorde flight?