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Fast Plane in the world - find out this top 20 list of the speediest aircraft in the workds - ezeeflights.com
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NASA Space Shuttle Plane Top Speed: 17,500 MPH Price: $450,000,000.00 Hours To Get Around The World: 1.4 Hours They were used on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
X43A Scramjet Top Speed: 7,500 MPHPrice: UnknownHours To Get Around The World: 3.34 Hours It was part of the X-plane series and specifically of NASA’s Hyper-X program.
X-41 Top Speed: 13,000 MPHPrice: UnknownHours To Get Around The World:1.9 Hours Initiated in 2003, X-41 is the designation for a still-classified U.S. military space plane. Right now the X-41 is a part of the FALCON (Force Application and Launch from Continental United States) program sponsored by DARPA and NASA.
Boeing X-51 Top Speed: 3,400 MPHPrice: $7,700,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 7.4 Hours The Boeing X-51 is a pilot-less plane designed to be used as High Speed Strike Weapon (HSSW) in 2020.
X-15 Plane Top Speed: 4,520 MPHPrice: $1,500,000,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 5.5 Hours The North American X-15 was a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft.
SR-71 Blackbird Top Speed: 2,500 MPHPrice: $43,000,000.00HoursTo Get Around The World: 9.9 Hours The Blackbird’s performance and achievements cemented the plane as one of the greatest triumphs in aviation technology during the Cold War.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat Top Speed: 2,190 MPHPrice: $18,000,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 11.35 Hours The MiG-25 Foxbat is still in limited service in the Russian Air Force. It is also used by several other nations, including the Algerian Air Force and Syrian Air Force.
Bell X-2 “Starbuster” Top Speed: 2,094 MPHPrice: $64,000,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 11.87 Hours The Bell X-2 was a rocket-powered research plane jointly developed by Bell Aircraft Corporation, the U.S. Air Force and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (the precursor to NASA) in 1945.
XB-70 Valkyrie Top Speed: 2,000 MPHPrice: $750,000,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 12.43 Hours The North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie was the prototype version of the planned B-70 nuclear-armed, deep-penetration strategic bomber for the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command.
Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound Top Speed: 1,860 MPHPrice: $57,000,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 13.36 Hours The Mikoyan MiG-31 is a supersonic interceptor aircraft developed for use by the Soviet Air Forces. The aircraft was designed by the Mikoyan design bureau as a replacement for the earlier MiG-25
Mikoyan Ye-152 Top Speed: 1,666 MPHPrice: UnknownHours To Get Around The World: 15 Hours It is the fastest single jet engine made by the Russians.
F-15 Eagle Top Speed: 1,650 MPHPrice: $27,900,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 15.06 Hours The F-15 Eagle is a twin-engine tactical fighter designed by McDonnell Douglas in 1967. t has also been exported to a number of foreign nations, including Japan, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
F-111 Aardvark Top Speed: 1,650 MPHPrice: $25,000,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 15.06 Hours The F-111 Aardvark was a tactical strike aircraft developed in the 1960s by General Dynamics.
F-4 Phantom Top Speed: 1,607 MPHPrice:$17,883,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 15.6 Hours It was also the only aircraft used by both U.S. flight demonstration teams: the USAF Thunderbirds (F-4E) and the US Navy Blue Angels (F-4J).
Sukhoi Su-27 Top Speed: 1,550 MPHPrice:$27,000,000.00Hours To Get Around The World:16.03 hours To this day they remain in military use in Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine.
Sukhoi PAK FA T-50 Top Speed: 1,520 MPHPrice: $50,000,000.00Hours To Get Around The World:16.38 hours The T-50 prototype first flew on January 29, 2010 and the first production aircraft is slated for delivery to the Russian Air Force starting in late 2016 or early 2017.
Convair F- 106 Top Speed: 1,526 MPHPrice: $25,100,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 16.4 Hours
F-35 Lightning II Top Speed: 1,200 MPHPrice: $106,000,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 20.75 hours
B-2 Spirit Top Speed: 630 MPHPrice: $737,000,000.00Hours To Get Around The World: 39.53 hours
F-117 Nighthawk Top Speed: 617 MPHPrice: $111,200,000.00Hours To Get Around The World:40.36 hours