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The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird holds the official Air Speed Record for a crewed airbreathing jet engine aircraft with a speed of 3,530 km/h (2,190 mph). The record was set on 28 July 1976 by Eldon W. Joersz and George T. Morgan Jr. near Beale Air Force Base, California, USA. It was able to take off and land unassisted on conventional runways. [47]
[11] [12] This record was retired as a new weight class based system was introduced to allow more pilots to set new records across a wider range of aircraft. On September 2, 2017, Steve Hinton Jr, in the modified North American P-51 Mustang Voodoo set the new record of 531.53 mph (855.41 km/h) in the C-1e class (the same weight class Rare Bear ...
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
Pages in category "Aviation records" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. ... Flight airspeed record; Flight altitude record;
On January 19, 1937, a year and a half after setting the landplane speed record in the H-1, Hughes broke his own transcontinental speed record by flying non-stop from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds, smashing the previous time of 9 hours, 27 minutes by two hours. His average speed over the flight was 322 mph ...
On 7 September 1953, Duke set a new world air speed record of 727.63 mph (1,171.01 km/h), flying Hunter WB188. [4] (With this world record Neville Duke exceeded the unofficial world record set by Heini Dittmar with the Me 163 BV18), [5] also gaining for himself the Gold Medal of the Royal Aero Club.
Cam Ward and Xavier Restrepo had another day to remember, and No. 5 Miami pulled off yet another big comeback. Ward — Miami's Heisman Trophy hopeful — threw for 400 yards and five more ...
Pages in category "Flight speed record holders" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.