10 F-15 eagle
Top speed: 2,679km/h
Manned Mcdonnell Douglas, Boeing, Space & security, USA, 1972
09 MiG Foxhound
Top speed: 2,999km/h
Manned Mikoyan, Soviet Union, 1975
08 XB-70 Valkyrie
Top speed: 3,308km/h
Manned north american aviation, usa, 1964
07 Bell X-2 starbuster
Top speed: 3,369km/h
Manned bell aircraft, USA, 1955
06 MiG-25 Foxbat
Top speed: 3,492km/hManned Mikoyangurevich, soviet Union, 1964
05 SR-71 BlackBird
Top speed: 3,540km/h
Manned Lockheed, USA, 1964
04 X-51 WaveRider
Top speed: 6,276km/h
unmanned Boeing, USA, 2010
03 X-15
Top speed: 7,274km/h
Manned US Air Force and NASA, USA, 1959
02 X-43A
Top speed: 12,144km/h
Unmanned NASA, USA, 2004
01 Falcon HTV-2
Top speed: 20,920km/h
Unmanned Lockheed Martin,
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and US Air Force, USA, 2010
Developed to test the limits of long-duration hypersonic travel, the Falcon HTV-2 is a rocket-launched, unmanned but fully manoeuvrable plane that’s capable of flying at Mach 20. Not that anything can be remotely described as ‘long-duration’ at these kinds of speed; a plane travelling at more than 20,000 miles an hour would cover the distance between New York City and Los Angeles in around 12 minutes.
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