The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbirdis the fastest jet aircraft in the world, reaching speeds of Mach 3.3--that's more than 3,500 kph (2,100 mph) and almost four times as fast as the average cruising speed of a commercial airliner. Is a jet faster than a plane?
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird long-range reconnaissance aircraft, used by the United States Air Force between 1964 and 1998, is the jet with the fastest speed record at 3.3 Mach (2,200 mph). Who died on the Concorde crash? Parts of the Concorde fell directly on to that part of the hote...
Dario Leone
New clues reveal the likely builder of the Air Force's secret new sixth-generation fighter jet. This defense contractor isn't being very coy.
weaver took off from edwards on a test flight in a lockheed sr-71 blackbird—a twin-engine reconnaissance ship, and the fastest, highest-flying manned jet airplane ever built, capable of holding mach 3.3 and reaching an altitude of 85,000 feet. it had tandem cockpits, forward for the pilo...
and was the only airframe to require a flight engineer in order to fly, while every other airframe replaced this role with a computer. Twenty examples were built, and six of those were for testing and prototyping. Only 14 entered commercial service. Now they reside in museums arou...