Cessna engineers have found a way to boost the speed of the Citation Ten, the follow-on to the Mach 0.92 Citation X, from Mach 0.92 to Mach 0.935. That beats the Gulfstream 650, once the fastest business jet in the world, which flew at Mach 0.925. The Ten is also 15 inches longer ...
1. Bombardier Global 8000 – Mach 0.94 (721 mph)Set to be delivered in 2025, the Global 8000 is the world’s fastest business jet. It broke the sound barrier to reach Mach 1.015 during testing and became the first plane to go supersonic using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). For commerc...
Ok so it doesn't look like much, but this triple-engined business jet is astonishingly quick and can carry 16 people in luxury at speeds of over 1100km/h. This is thanks to a 3-engine design, with one engine mounted centrally in the tail of the plane. Triple-engine planes (or 'tri...
The fastest jet in the world is NASA's X-43 experimental plane. Thanks to its scramjet design it was able to reach a speed of Mach 9.6, or 11,854 Km/h. Three of these planes were built in total. One was destroyed during testing in 2001, whilst the other two successfully flew for ...
s impressive jet has a resume any other aircraft of its kind blushes at. With a clocked speed of some 100 miles per hour faster than its closest competition, along with a personal account of the jet traveling upwards of Mach 3.5, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest jet on the ...
Ed Shadle created the North American Eagle in 1998 by converting a 1957 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter jet into a vehicle capable of breaking the sound barrier. His team has optimized the vehicle’s design to reach maximum speeds, with a record so far of 400 mph. With the next test run, the...
Like an airliner, a private jet’s speed is measured in Mach. Mach is the speed of an aircraft relative to the speed of sound. The Citation X+ (ten plus) is no longer manufactured as new (it was discontinued by manufacturer Cessna), but is still available in the charter market. ...
Bombardier has announced the manufacturing of major structural components for the first production Global 8000 business jet is now underway at its facilities in Saint-Laurent (Québec), Red Oak (Texas), and Querétaro (Mexico).
The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is the fastest jet ever built, a machine so far ahead of its time even its own pilots thought it looked more like a spaceship than an airplane. It is an engineering marvel, powered by innovative engines that operated most efficiently at Mach 3.2, its typical...
“It’ll make Mach 3 seem pretty slow.” In fact, NASA has hired Lockheed to research development of a new hypersonic engine that might power a surveillance jet named the SR-72. Lockheed Martin says it's developing a successor to the legendary supersonic SR-71 spy jet. They're ...