worlds fastest passenger jet?

Question

was mentioned in the book angels and demons by dan brown

Answer 1

the supersonic Tu-144 and Concorde were the two fastest passenger aircraft flown to date.

Officially, the world's fastest jet-powered aircraft remains the SR-71 Blackbird. Although the official record is about Mach 3.3 (or 3.3 times the speed of sound), many believe the aircraft could actually fly much faster.

Here are some more facts to date:

Boeing 747 605 mph. Fastest operating commercial jet.

Citation X 607 mph. Fastest business jet.

Tupolev Tu-114 545.07 mph world record. Fastest turboprop transport.

Tupolev Tu-144 1,553 mph. Fastest supersonic passenger jet.

P180 Avanti 460 mph. Fastest FAR 23 certified turboprop.

Note as a writer:

Usually fiction writers who would tag in their novel regarding the fastest commercial a/c shall depend on the plot needed for the story.

Many novelists query with actual pilots/aviation experts if they want to put something tangible – close to the facts/truth and at times they would write and adapt what is most adaptable/fitting for the script.

I hope this helped you understand what goes on also on a writer's pow (point of view).

Answer 2

Fastest Passenger Jet

Answer 3

Dan Brown is a writer of fiction. In spite of what he claims at the beginning of his books there are very few significant, accurate facts in any of them.

The world's fastest passenger jet he is referring to doesn't exist. The world's fastest passenger jet WAS the Tu-144, followed by the Concorde.

Now it's a close race. The Citation X is listed as the world's fastest business jet.

According to several different publications, the world's fastest passenger jet is alternatively the Boeing 727, the Boeing 747, and the BAC Trident. Most of these aren't routinely operated at their fastest speeds.

Answer 4

Fastest current production civilian "passenger jet": CE-750 (Cessna Citation X). Mmo= M0.92

To John B: Did 640 knots groundspeed (736 mph) in a CE-680 (Citation Sovereign), eastbound over Virginia at FL 310 in Feb 2007. 450 k TAS with 190k on the tail. Great fun.

Answer 5

As a person highly involved in aviation and an avid reader, (to the point that I have the Illuminati Diamond tattooed on my shoulder,) I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the airplane, a prototype Boeing X-33, doesn't exist.

Like other times when Brown has discussed aviation, he's simply made up things when he didn't know much about them. He's good with history, art and culture, but bad with aircraft. In the Da Vinci Code, he refers to a Beech Baron as being capable of flying direct from Rome to London and being large enough to stand up and walk in.

Even on a good day, there's not room enough to swing a cat in a Beech Baron.

He also refers to an old HS125-3AR as (correctly) refitted with Garrett TFE731 engines, but talks about it turning around, under it's own power, in the hangar. Man, if you were to try that in a hangar just big enough for a 737, you'd blast the tin off the walls, sand blast the car parked in the hangar and the flying tin would decapitate anyone near the flying tin.

I can't say about the UK, but it's really not legal to operate civillian aircraft in a hangar in the US. For the obvious reasons.

So, no, the HSCT's, (High Speed Civil Transports,) don't exist and probably won't exist in the near future. And you should take anything Dan Brown says in reference to aviation with, to hell with a grain, take it with the whole damn salt shaker.

Fly the Friendly Skies!

Answer 6

The Tupolev Tu-144 could go faster than Concorde because it had a wing leading edge (which heats up the most) made of Titanium and Steel compared to the Aluminium of Concorde.

Although the Tu-144 had rather bad handling and tended to use more fuel than Concorde (the later one which could actually hold Mach 2 without afterburner were a big improvement in fuel economy but still not as good as Concorde) but it was still a faster plane.

Though whether that particular book of fiction refers to it is another matter.

Answer 7

The concorde was the worlds fastest passenger aircraft but since they no longer fly the title belongs to the good old 747-400.

Answer 8

The Tu-144
Remember Dan Brown, while an excellent author, is a writer of fiction. He can base his writings on fact, however he does take advantage of so called "poetic license".

Answer 9

The Gulfstream 650 often is the quickest whilst it hits the marketplace in 2012. on the time The citation X (ten, no longer the letter X) is the quickest. There are rumors of a sparkling version of the X popping out with winglets and much less conservative fadec. There are no printed numbers however the rumors are mach .ninety six

Answer 10

If you don't count the concord. Which can't go fast because it's never off the ground, it's the top of the line Cessna Citation. If someone said that would be the fastest plane in 2007 twenty years ago, they would think he was crazy.