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Intelligent Energy claims new endurance record for hydrogen-powered multicopters

Loz Blain January 10, 2019

This fuel cell-powered coaxial octacopter just stayed aloft for 70 minutes of continuous flight, while carrying a 5kg (11-pound) weight. The record demonstrates the flight endurance capabilities of hydrogen-powered electric aircraft.

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Motorcycles

Only ridden on Sundays: Carl Reese to auction his record-setting BMW K1600GT

Loz Blain January 7, 2019

Collectors can grab themselves a piece of motorcycle history this month at Mecum Auctions, as long-distance world record holder and cannonball run champion Carl Reese puts his record-setting BMW K1600GT under the hammer.

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Heavy-hauling drone lays claim to a Guinness World Record

Nick Lavars December 11, 2018

Russian outfit ARDN rolled out some pretty outrageous performance specs when announcing its Skyf drone last year. Recent demonstration flights in Tatarstan, Russia didn’t see it quite reach these lofty heights, but it did do enough for its creators to lay claim to a Guinness World Record. ​​

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Bicycles

Nici Walde sets new women's human-powered 24-hour endurance record

Loz Blain July 29, 2018

Forty-four-year-old endurance athlete Nicola "Nici" Walde has beaten the women's world record for the greatest distance traveled in a human-powered vehicle in 24 hours. Using a streamlined recumbent tricycle, Nici managed 227 laps of the Opel Test Center for a total of 1,088 km (676 mi) in 24 hours.

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Drones

2,018 drones take to the air as Intel sets yet another world record

Nick Lavars July 19, 2018

​Intel’s Shooting Star drones continue to hit new heights. The company has set thousands of the tiny aircraft into the air over California, which arranged themselves in spectacular formations to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary.

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Automotive

Video: Stunt driver sets world 2-wheeling speed record on twisting racetrack

Loz Blain July 16, 2018

​Another world record tumbled at Goodwood yesterday, and it was a cracker: the world’s fastest mile balancing a car on two wheels. And if that sounds difficult, it wasn’t on a straight bit of road. Driver Terry Grant had to take the car up the twisting Hill Climb race track. Just watch!

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Automotive

High-tech Porsche scorches the Nurburgring and blows away all-time record

C.C. Weiss July 2, 2018

Not a full year after raising the bar on the production car Nürburgring record, Porsche put its 919 Hybrid Evo race car on the track and destroyed the three-decades-old all-time record (also set in a Porsche) by nearly a minute.

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Environment

Scientists record coldest temperature ever seen on Earth's surface

Michael Irving June 27, 2018

To say “Antarctica is cold” will surprise nobody, but just how cold it can get might. Researchers from NSIDC have now identified the coldest places on the planet, where the mercury plummets to almost -100° C (-148° F) under specific conditions.

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Marine

New maritime electric speed world record set by Jaguar Vector Racing

David Szondy June 17, 2018

The Jaguar Vector Racing V20E has broken the British and world electric speed records for a battery-powered boat, making an average speed of 88.61 mph (142.6 km/h) over two legs of the 1-km (0.62-mi) course on Coniston Water in northern England.

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Automotive

Tesla tackles Guinness World Record by towing a commercial airliner

Nick Lavars May 15, 2018

A Boeing Dreamliner taxiing at Melbourne Airport has received a helping hand, with Tesla's brawny Model X towing the airliner across the tarmac as part of a Guinness World Record attempt.

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