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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.
North American X-15, the fastest piloted rocket-powered aircraft. ... Musculair 2, the fastest human-powered aircraft. Airspeed records Category Speed (km/h)
Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft: Germany: 1934: Engelbert Zaschka: Zephyrus β: Japan: 1997: Ochanomizu Human-powered aircraft study group: Japanese female record set under the FAI rules, 1.004 km in 3 min 3 s. (16 Nov. 1997). Piloted by Chihiro Muraoka – current Japanese female records. Zinno Olympian ZB-1: USA: 1976: Lt.Col. Joe Zinno, USAF (Ret.)
A human-powered aircraft (HPA) is an aircraft belonging to the class of vehicles known as human-powered transport.. As its name suggests, HPAs have the pilot not only steer, but power the aircraft (usually propeller-driven) by means of a system similar to a bicycle or tricycle: a pair of pedals, moved by the pilot's feet that turns a gear, which then moves a bicycle chain, which then rotates a ...
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 initial 24 powered flights used two Reaction Motors XLR11 liquid-propellant rocket engines, enhanced to provide a total of 16,000 pounds-force (71 kN) of thrust as compared to the 6,000 pounds-force (27 kN) that a single XLR11 provided in 1947 to make the Bell X-1 the first aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Günther designed Musculair 2, and Holger slimmed down to just 41 kilograms (90 lb) to reduce the total mass of craft and human, leading to him setting a new Fédération Aéronautique Internationale world record for a human-powered aircraft at 44.32 kilometres per hour (27.54 mph) on 2 October 1985. [1]
It set several airspeed records for jet aircraft. The X-43 is the fastest jet-powered aircraft on record at approximately Mach 9.6. [2] A winged booster rocket with the X-43 placed on top, called a "stack", was drop launched from a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.