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The fastest manned aircraft, not the SR71!
This is fascinating. Not just about bragging rights, but real research on crazy high speed in the atmosphere, and reentry from space. The X-15's highest speed, 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h; 2,021 m/s),[1] was achieved on 3 October 1967, when William J. Knight flew at Mach 6.7 at an altitude of 102,100 feet (31,120 m), or 19.34 miles. That X-15 never flew again as the skin was just torched with holes burned in the skin. Almost as fast as our Cessna 182! 
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Ha!
I remember flying my model X-15 around the living room making shhhhhfing noises. Doing the excruciatingly complex maths, I have successfully approximated my age at the time to be about 12 years, give or take. |
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One of the greats! ... Steve's photos.
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