The versatile Sukhoi Su-27 jet has a top speed of Mach 2.35, which means it just misses out on our top 5. But this jet isn't all about speed. It also boasts an impressive range and good manoeuvrability in flight, meaning that it has taken part in many different types of missions ...
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 ...
TheGlobal 8000will be the fastest civil aircraft since the Concorde, with an industry-leading top speed of Mach 0.94 and an impressive range of 8,000 nautical miles, making it the ultimate business aircraft Bombardier’s new ultra-long range business jet continues to excel with flight testing f...
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 the jet traveling upwards of Mach 3.5, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest jet...
jet named “Global 8000” has just been introduced into the market by Bombardier, renowned for its luxurious cabin services and speed parameters. The most important thing to consider is that this will be the first-ever “business jet” to achieve asupersonic speedof Mach 1.015, along with ...
Fastest Executive JetThe fastest executive jetJourney with style and speed and reach your destination faster. What's the fastest warplane? Orville Wright at last reached something Orville Wright had dreamt of for all of humankind's histories on the revolution of December 17, 1903. It made the ...
In November 1966, drag racer and world land speed record holder Art Arfons crashed his jet-powered Green Monster automobile at a ferocious speed of 610 mph at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Astonishingly, not only did Afrons survive, but he came out with just minor burns and bruises. ...
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. ...
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...
The official land-speed record (measured over one mile) is 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mi/h) (Mach 1.020), set by Andy Green (UK) on 15 October 1997 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, inThrust SSC. The car is powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey 202 jet engines which generate 222 ...