Opel RAK.3 was a rocket-powered rail vehicle in the Opel-RAK series, the rocket vehicle program run by Fritz von Opel of the Opel car company together with Max Valier, Julius Hatry and Friedrich Wilhelm Sander. On June 23, 1928 it reached a top speed of 256 km/h over a 5 km stretch of straight track near Hanover, watched by some 20,000 spectators, and so broke the existing world speed record for railcars by nearly 40 km/h. Other accounts quote its speed as 254 or 290 km/h. On its second run the vehicle jumped the track and was destroyed. The publicity from the RAK 2 and RAK 3 demonstrations gave the science of rocketry a major boost.
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Opel RAK.3 - rocket rail vehicle
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is a German automobile manufacturer
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Rocket-powered land vehicles
A world record for rail vehicles was reached with RAK3 on June 23, 1928
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On the second run the vehicle jumped the track and was destroyed
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Opel RAK.3 - rocket rail vehicle
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with the car attaining a top speed of 256 km/h over a 5-km stretch of straight track near Hanover
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