2007-03-03 06:38:29 · 24 answers · asked by Duh... 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Probably the Space Shuttle - or any other craft that flies in space.
2007-03-03 06:41:46 · answer #1 · answered by Sven B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fastest Flying Machine
2017-01-16 15:12:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your definition of "flying". Many things that travel through the air at very high speeds are not actually flying; they are simply ballistic, which means the thrust they produce is enough to counteract gravity. The X - 15 travelled at Mach 5, and had wings, but it was essentially ballistic. The space shuttle has wings, but it glides through the air. It might still be be the SR -71 that is the fastest "flying" machine, but it was retired. I would not be surprised if there is something else out there.
2007-03-03 06:45:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will exclude spacecraft in my answer, because they go out of the world.
Currently, the fastest type of airplane is the SR-71 Blackbird. It's so fast that evasive action against a surface-to-air missile is to accelerate. The plane has been measured at Mach 3.2(2112 mph).
The fastest manned aircraft was the X-15, at Mach 6.72(4435.2 mph).
The fastest flying machine, however, is the X-43, which nobody piloted due to its intense speeds of Mach 9.8, or 6468 miles per hour.
Scott's answer here is right too, but the plane is still in development. I don't know what they say on Wikipedia.
2007-03-03 06:46:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats kind of relative to whether youre next to a stationary object or in space but in the Earths atmosphere with the resistance from nitrogen, oxygen, argon etc probably a scramjet rocket or the spaceshuttle booster or other rocket boosters. Once out of the atmosphere sattelites and modules go something like 30,000 miles per hour I think. Galileo and other space probes slingshot around planetary bodies and God knows how fast they are travelling. Nasa sites would tell all. I know when the last piece of cheesecake is in the fridge Ive been known to go from the couch in a freakin blur.
2007-03-03 07:03:14 · answer #5 · answered by chrisgallo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Space Shuttle Atlantis
2007-03-03 06:41:37 · answer #6 · answered by Steven H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space Shuttle
2007-03-03 16:01:00 · answer #7 · answered by KA-BOOM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The space shuttle goes about around 17,000 mph or 5 miles per second. If you consider deep space probes they need 25,000 because they need the extra power to break free of earth's gravity, where a space shuttle is in orbit constantly falling which causes the weightlessness
2007-03-03 17:30:41 · answer #8 · answered by Elliot K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SR-71 in atmosphere , Space Shuttle on launch , Aurora ( goverment denies exsistance supposed to 8 time speed of sound )
2007-03-03 06:47:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A jet. Unless you count upper atmosphere as "in the world". Then it's probably the space shuttle or a ballistic missile.
2007-03-03 06:40:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋