What's the fastest passenger airplane? And how fast do passenger planes go, by the way? Ever since humanity took to the skies with the birds, weve been pushing our limits. Weve built the biggest, the baddest, the fastest aircraft! But how do passenger aircraft rank among our most incredible record-breakers? Lets see!
Well, the fastest crewed aircraft ever was the X-15. But it couldnt take off by itself a mother ship had to carry it up and drop-launch it from the sky. So, technically, the X-15 was a crewed rocket, not entirely an airplane. There was also the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a supersonic jet with a top speed of almost 2, 200 mph! But it went so fast, its surface would heat up well over 500F. So what about regular passenger airplanes, the kind we all use to travel? Date: 2022-04-19
