wind powered land speed record

The wind-powered land speed record sits at about 203 km/h, set by the Greenbird land yacht in 2009 at Ivanpah Dry Lake in the US.

Piloted by Richard Jenkins, it used a rigid wing to bully the breeze into doing proper work—no engines, no batteries, just smug physics.

That’s the benchmark for pure wind power on land; ice and water categories keep their own scorecards.

And no, don’t mix it up with prop-driven downwind-faster-than-the-wind stunts—different category, same gusty attitude.