The NASA X-43 undergoing testing in March 2004. The aircraft was released at an altitude of 29,000 metres. Photo by NASA 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. Thr...
No matter if the U.S. Air Force actually pushed the SR-71 to its limit or not, Lockheed’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 th...
This plane is truly remarkable in that despite the age of the 747 platform, the 747-8i is the fastest large commercial jet in the world, with the capacity to carry nearly 500 people at speeds of over 1130km/h. In fact, these planes are so impressive that two are currently being modifie...
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Number 10: Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker.Its top speed of 2.35 Mach brings it to the very edge of USSR craftmanship with a twin engine and the first fly-by-wire control system on a Russian jet ever. It was built for air superiority to counter the new American 3.5 gen fighters such as the F...
The submarine is 108 m long and 12 m wide. It has an 11 m draft, two steam turbines, a shaft and a pump-jet propeller. It can attain a maximum speed of 35 knots when underwater and 18 knots and more when on the surface.
The world's fastest fire truck is the jet-powered Hawaiian Eagle, owned by Shannen Seydel, of Navarre, Florida, USA, which attained the speed of 655 km/h (407 mph) in Ontario, Canada, on 11 July 1998. The truck is a red 1940 Ford, powered by two Rolls Royce Bristol Viper engines ...
Thrust SSC was piloted by Andy Green (UK), a wing commander in the RAF. The project director was Richard Noble (UK), who in 1983 had set the previous land-speed record of 1,020.406 km/h (634.051 mph) on board Thrust 2. The car is powered by two Roll...
Artist's conception of Kepler-78b orbiting its star, a feat that it easily completes every 8.5 hours.Image courtesy David A. Aguilar (CfA)/Jet Propulsion Laboratory OK, world's fastest animal, world's fastest person — these are all fine and good, but with a serious Earth-centric bent. ...
Editor’s Note: Portions of this article first appeared on CNN Digital in 2015. CNN — For the first time in 40 years, the fastest jet flight crew in the world reunited with the once super-secret spy plane that put them in the history books. At the Museum of Aviation in Warner ...