Top-10 Fastest Aircraft in the Air - Extreme Speed 2014

Fasted Aircraft - Top 10 Collections

Technology has given mankind the ability to experience speeds that used to be the stuff of Science fiction. Start your engine as we look at the fastest machine on Earth.

If you've ever flown in an airplane, you may have experienced a sense of great acceleration on take-off, bust noting like the speed these crafts can achieve.

1. Aircraft - Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

• Pilot (S) - Eldon W Joersz, George T Morgan
• Date - July 28, 1976
• Location - Beale Air Force Base, CA (USA)
• Top Speed - 3529.6 (KPH) & 2193.2 (MPH)

2. Aircraft - Lockheed YF-12A

• Pilot(S) - Robert L Stephens, Daniel Andre
• Date - May 1, 1965
• Location - USSR (Russia)
• Top Speed - 3331.5 (KPH), 2070.1 (MPH)

3. Aircraft - Mikoyan Gurevich YE-166

• Pilot(S) - Geogii Mosolov
• Date - July 7, 1962
• Location - Edwards Air Force Base, CA (USA)
• Top Speed - 2681 (KPH), 1665.9 (MPH)

4. Aircraft - McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II

• Pilot(S) - Robert G Robertson
• Date - November 22, 1961
• Location - Edwards Air Force Base, CA (USA)
• Top Speed - 2581.1 (KPH), 1606.9 (MPH)

5. Aircraft - Convair F-106 Delta Dart

• Pilot(S) - Joseph Rogers
• Date - December 15, 1959
• Location - Edwards Air Force Base, CA (USA)
• Top Speed - 2455.7 (KPH), 1525.9 (MPH)

6. Aircraft - Lockheed F-104C Starfighter

• Pilot(S) - WW Irwin
• Date - May 16, 1958
• Location - Edwards Air Force Base, CA (USA)
• Top Speed - 2259 (KPH), 1404 (MPH)

7. Aircraft - McDonnell F-101A Voodoo

• Pilot(S) - Adrian Drew
• Date - December 12, 1957
• Location - Edwards Air Force Base, CA (USA)
• Top Speed - 1943.5 (KPH), 1207.6 (MPH)

8. Aircraft - Fairey Delta 2

• Pilot(S) - Peter Twiss
• Date - March 10, 1956
• Location - Chichester (UK)
• Top Speed - 1822 (KPH), 1132 (MPH)

9. Aircraft - F-100C Super Sabre

• Pilot(S) - Horace A Hanes
• Date - August 20, 1955
• Location - Palmdale (USA)
• Top Speed - 1323 (KPH), 822.1 (MPH)

10. Aircraft - Douglas F4D Skyray

• Pilot(S) - James B Verdin
• Date - October 3, 1953
• Location - Salton Sea (USA)
• Top Speed - 1211.5 (KPH), 752.8 (MPH)

Check It Out : With huge leaps forward in technology leading to development like this Internet & Computer generated imagery (CGI), you'd think that 2013 fighters jets would trump anything over a decade old. But amazing, the 49-year-old Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, is still the fastest military jet ever since it took to the skies back in 1964 !

Give It A Try : Sonic Paper Planes - You may have made paper planes before, but it's time to Really challenge yourselves. Can you come up with one that looks like the Blackbird ? Go !