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Previously, the Guinness Book of World Records listed the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 and Tu-142 bombers as "the fastest propeller-driven aircraft in standard production form", with a maximum level speed of 925 km/h (575 mph; 499 kn) or Mach 0.82. [6] XF-84H "Thunderscreech". Even earlier, in 1997, the Guinness Book of World Records listed the ...
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the current record-holder for a crewed airbreathing jet aircraft. An air speed record is the highest airspeed attained by an aircraft of a particular class. The rules for all official aviation records are defined by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), [1] which also ratifies any claims. Speed records ...
Airspeed Range Ceiling T/O Weight Engine power 1905 60.91 km/h (37.85 mph) USA Wilbur Wright Flyer III October 5, 1905 38.95 km (24.2 miles) USA Wilbur Wright Flyer III October 5, 1905 15 m (50 ft) USA Wilbur Wright Flyer III September 28, 1905 388 kg (855 lb) USA Wright Brothers Flyer III 37 kW (50 hp) France Léon Levavasseur Antoinette 1907
Airspeed is commonly given in knots (kn). Since 2010, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recommends using kilometers per hour (km/h) for airspeed (and meters per second for wind speed on runways), but allows using the de facto standard of knots, and has no set date on when to stop.
On 10 March 1956, the Fairey Delta 2 broke the World Air Speed Record, raising it to 1,132 mph (1,811 km/h) or Mach 1.73. [7] This achievement exceeded the prior recorded airspeed record by 310 mph, or 37 per cent; never before had the record ever been raised by such a margin.
On 16 July 1925, one of the early examples of a production aircraft was used to set four new world airspeed records: the airspeed record for carrying a 500 kg/1,102 lb payload (265.7 km/h or 165.7 mph), the record for carrying the same payload over a distance of 200 km (264.2 km/h or 164.7 mph), at the same time setting the same records for ...
The Me 262 V9, Werknummer 130 004, with Stammkennzeichen of VI+AD, [114] was prepared as the HG I test airframe with the low-profile Rennkabine racing-canopy and may have achieved an unofficial record speed for a turbojet-powered aircraft of 975 km/h (606 mph), altitude unspecified, [115] even with the recorded wartime airspeed record being set ...
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist and pilot. [2] He was best known during his lifetime as one of the richest and most influential people in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important ...