the top 10 Fastest planes in the world

THE TOP 10 FASTEST PLANES

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.

02 
X-43A
Top speed: 12,144km/h
unmanned
NASA, USA, 2004


03
X-15 
Top speed: 7,274km/h
Manned
us air Force and NASA, USA, 1959


04
X-51 WaveRider
Top speed: 6,276km/h
unmanned
Boeing, USA, 2010


05
SR-71
BlackBird
Top speed: 3,540km/h
Manned
Lockheed, USA, 1964


06
MiG-25 Foxbat
Top speed: 3,492km/h
Manned
Mikoyangurevich, soviet Union, 1964


07
Bell X-2 starbuster
Top speed: 3,369km/h
Manned
bell aircraft, USA, 1955


08
XB-70 Valkyrie
Top speed: 3,308km/h
Manned
north american aviation, usa, 1964


09
MiG Foxhound
Top speed: 2,999km/h
Manned
Mikoyan, Soviet Union, 1975


10
F-15 eagle
Top speed: 2,679km/h
Manned
Mcdonnell douglas, Boeing, Space & security, usa, 1972