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Superhuman Speed

Episode 5 of 6

Jeremy Clarkson explores rapid transit. He sets out to uncover the story of sheer power, and how we have gone from 100mph to 25,000mph in little more than a century.

Jeremy Clarkson explores rapid transit. He sets out to uncover the story of sheer power, and how we have gone from 100mph to 25,000mph in little more than a century.Clarkson takes his first love, the internal combustion engine, to a new personal record of 215mph on the salt flats of Utah. He meets his childhood idol, a plane that is faster than a bullet, straps a jet engine to a push-bike, and gets close to a space shuttle engine at full power.

29 minutes

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Tue 23 Jul 2002 22:00

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