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Originally Posted by Captain Drunk
Still, as a fighter plane, Foxbat is the fastest and holds the ultimate highest altitude record of 123,524 feet (37.65 km). And If you're talking of speed and height with the X-15, then the MiG-105 "Spiral" beats that too at Mach 8. Yet another Mig to boot!  |
According to the guiness book of world records:
Fastest aircraft with air-breathing engine
On November 16, 2004,
NASA's (USA) unmanned Hyper-X (X-43A) aircraft reached Mach 9.68, almost ten times the speed of sound. The X-43A was boosted to an altitude of 33,000 m (115,000 ft) by a Pegasus rocket launched from beneath a B52-B aircraft. The revolutionary 'scramjet' aircraft then successfully burned its engine before plunging into the Pacific Ocean.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...recordid=60157
And:
"Fastest Winged Aircraft
On October 3, 1967, an
X-15A-2 piloted by USAF Major William J. "Pete" Knight, was released from its B-52 mother plane at 10,668 m. (35,000 ft.) above the Mojave Desert where it achieved an absolute speed record of Mach 6.7."
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...recordid=54497
According to Encyclopedia Astronautica(or any of the three other sites i checked) the "Mig-105 Spiral" achieved no great speeds. No mention of any sort of speed records is mentioned AT ALL on any of those sites.
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/mig10511.htm