And please show me pictures and videos.
2007-09-19 09:35:48 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
The Blackbird.
2007-09-19 09:55:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The X-15
2007-09-19 16:39:08 · answer #2 · answered by AAA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SR -71 Blackbird was and is still the fastest jet. It was used for photographic spying.
The X-15 was the first throttleable rocket, but it was not a jet.
2007-09-19 16:43:45 · answer #3 · answered by righteousjohnson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question...militarily speaking, the SR-71 reputedly is the fastest, but the Soviet Fox-bat-25 is reportedly able to catch it, but it has to divert power to use its missiles, hence the SR-71 has never been shot down. I do know that the SR-71 is so fast that while sitting on the tarmac fully-fueled, it literally leaks like a sieve, but when airborne its speed is so fast that the aircraft's skin stretches, thereby sealing all the fuel leaks. No pictures available, sorry.
2007-09-19 16:48:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
X-15 4,520 mph world record. Fastest manned aircraft. Not only is the North American X-15 the fastest aircraft ever, it is the highest flying. The X-15 was launched from under the wing of a B-52. Thrust was obtained from one engine that produced 70,400 lbs. at maximum altitude.
2007-09-19 16:42:08 · answer #5 · answered by Joshua M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fastest plane ever built The Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird, which exceeded Mach 3, or about 2,100 mph, on Dec. 22, 1964.
2007-09-19 16:48:40 · answer #6 · answered by Paul Goldsworthy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If one defines jet as "air breathing" (as opposed to rocket, where the oxydizer is on board with the fuel) vehicle, without requirements to have a crew on board, then the fastest is the X43, by a fair margin. It flew at around Mach 10, after being accelerated by a Pegasus air launched rocket. The craft is emant to test supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) propulsion.
Videos are hard to come by, as the thing flies out of range of most camera in no times flat, and the craft destroys itself due to kinetic heating at the end of its flight.
2007-09-19 20:49:45 · answer #7 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The A-12 was slightly faster than the F-12 or SR-71.
2007-09-19 17:43:19 · answer #8 · answered by phillipk_1959 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SR-71
it's max speed still hasn't been declassified.
but every time another jet sets a new record, the SR-71 does it the next day, just to show that it can. and it is not a new plane.
it outran a missile that locked onto it in the Gulf War.
also, it is pretty.
for pictures,
go to GOOGLE and type in
SR-71 images
2007-09-19 16:42:32 · answer #9 · answered by nickipettis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure the SR-71 Blackbird was faster. Not positive though
2007-09-19 16:39:35 · answer #10 · answered by rcbuggy1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋