Top speed of a horse

Top speed of a horse (88 km/h)

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If Top speed of a horse (88 km/h) was a standard unit ...

  • Fastest speed attained by a jet aircraft (3,530 km/h)...more would be 40 x Top speed of a horse
  • Speed of a commercial airliner (880 km/h)...more would be 10 x Top speed of a horse
  • Fastest speed attained by a propeller aircraft (870 km/h)...more would be 10 x Top speed of a horse
  • Speed of China's Shijiazhuang?Wuhan high-speed train (350 km/h)...more would be 4 x Top speed of a horse
  • Speed of Usain Bolt at his fastest (yet) (44.7 km/h)...more would be 1/2 of Top speed of a horse
  • Fastest speed attained by a human-powered aircraft (44.3 km/h)...more would be 1/2 of Top speed of a horse
  • Top speed of a Brown Bear (35 km/h)...more would be 2/5 of Top speed of a horse
  • Top speed of a Bottlenose Dolphin (35 km/h)...more would be 2/5 of Top speed of a horse
  • Top speed of a California Sea Lion swimming (21.6 km/h)...more would be 1/4 of Top speed of a horse

Is That A Big Number? - The Book

Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.

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