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15 seconds?
Jolsa
Full Member

I thought I'd initially misheard on the news headlines, but the BBC reporter has just said it takes just 15 seconds to get from the bottom to the top using the lift in the Burj Dubai building.

Isn't that something like 70mph?!

Posted 14 years ago

Jamie
Free Member

I believe they use a combination of a cannon and a trampoline.

Posted 14 years ago

jam-bo
Full Member

It was 50s

Posted 14 years ago

Jolsa
Full Member

I'm assuming 15 minutes and a c*ck up by the BBC. Or my ears could be due for a severe syringe…

Posted 14 years ago

ernie_lynch
Free Member

According to my friend Google, the lift, which apparently is the fastest in the world, takes 22 minutes to reach the top.

Posted 14 years ago

Jolsa
Full Member

Ah. Nurse!

Posted 14 years ago

Jolsa
Full Member

He certainly didn't say 22 minutes. I'm gonna find the BBC clip…

Posted 14 years ago

Smee
Free Member

9m/s so somewhere around the 60-70 sec mark.

Posted 14 years ago

Jolsa
Full Member

50 seconds it is. Sounds more like it, although I quite liked the idea of 15…

Posted 14 years ago

ernie_lynch
Free Member

Fair enough. The 22 min lift must have been the builder's hoist – before they had completed it.

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:88Z0X-Sd9qcJ:www.bifm.org.uk/bifm/news/chairmansblog/19+%22The+lift+takes+22+minutes+to+get+to+the+top+and+it%E2%80%99s+that+fastest+one+on+the+planet!

Posted 14 years ago

mr_whacky
Free Member

"According to reports it will take only 15 minutes to arrive at the 160th floor, given the lift isn't full."

only 15 minutes? – and you have to change on the way apparently.. no single lift services all floors

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/04/content_12753604.htm

Posted 14 years ago

skidartist
Free Member

15 seconds from the top back down to the bottom again though, if someone gives you a leg up over the handrail.

Posted 14 years ago

GrahamS
Full Member

13 seconds to fall the 828m height assuming you are magically frictionless. So a bit more with drag 😀

Posted 14 years ago

avdave2
Full Member

50 seconds, I'm surrounded by Idiots will be along in a minute to tell us that he did the stairs in 49.

Posted 14 years ago

CaptainFlashheart
Free Member

Around the world, BASE jumpers are rubbing their hands together in eagerness….

Posted 14 years ago