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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.
The SR-71 was the world's fastest and highest-flying air-breathing operational manned aircraft throughout its career and it still holds that record. On 28 July 1976, SR-71 serial number 61-7962, piloted by then Captain Robert Helt, broke the world record: an "absolute altitude record" of 85,069 feet (25,929 m).
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-25; NATO reporting name: Foxbat) is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that is among the fastest military aircraft to enter service. Designed by the Soviet Union's Mikoyan-Gurevich bureau, it is an aircraft built primarily using stainless steel
A zip file was found within the retail games dummy data, which included the full PlayStation source code to the game. [93] Beatmania 5th Mix: 1999 2000 PlayStation Music video game: Konami: With the 2000 Japanese PSX game Beatmania Best Hits there was mistakenly included the source code for the 1999 game Beatmania 5th Mix. [94] The Bilestoad ...
Aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird are designed to cruise at supersonic speed with afterburners enabled. Some fighter jets are capable of supercruise but only at high altitudes and in a clean configuration , so the term may imply "a significant increase in effective combat speed with a full weapons load over existing types". [ 1 ]
Fighter and fighter-bomber, most-produced variable-geometry aircraft, originally to be based on Ye-2A or Ye-8: MiG-25: Foxbat 1964 Production Interceptor and reconnaissance-bomber, fastest mass-production aircraft MiG-27: Flogger-D/J 1970 Production Ground-attack aircraft derived from the MiG-23 MiG-29: Fulcrum 1977 Production
One of the new military jets flies over Chengdu, China (Reuters) China appears to have tested novel sixth-generation stealth military aircraft as videos of the warplanes went viral on social media.
The North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft which was operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft.