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The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird holds the official Air Speed Record for a crewed airbreathing jet engine aircraft with a speed of 3,530 km/h (2,190 mph). The record was set on 28 July 1976 by Eldon W. Joersz and George T. Morgan Jr. near Beale Air Force Base, California, USA.
Oct 6, 2017 · The X-43A jet has since reached speeds of 7,310 miles per hour, setting the air speed record in 2005, but the aircraft is unmanned. The famed SR-71 represents the fastest piloted jet...
Jul 26, 2016 · But Joersz applied to pilot the SR-71 anyway, and so it happened that he was in the cockpit on July 28, 1976, when the Blackbird set a world air speed record: 2,193 miles per hour (Mach...
Jul 28, 2016 · In 1976, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird broke the world’s record for sustained altitude in horizontal flight at 25,929 meters (85,069 feet). The same day another SR-71 set an absolute speed record of 3,529.6 kilometers per hour (2,193.2 miles per hour), approximately Mach 3.3.
Mar 1, 2024 · The YF-12 set a record for the maximum airspeed, reaching 3,331.5 km/h during a test flight on May 1, 1965, earning it the title of the fastest airplane in the world at that time. However, its reign was short-lived as it was soon surpassed by the SR-71, another advanced military plane based on the Lockheed A-12 design.
Jun 5, 2013 · The highest speed attained by a rocket-powered airplane, NASA’s X-15 aircraft, was Mach 6.7. The fastest air-breathing, manned vehicle, the SR-71, achieved slightly more than Mach 3.2. The X-43A more than doubled, then tripled, the top speed of the jet-powered SR-71.
The fastest airliner ever was the Tupolev Tu-144, the Soviet Union's supersonic counterpart to the Anglo-French Concorde and the never-built American Boeing 2707.
