Flight Airspeed Record - Other Air Speed Records

Other Air Speed Records

Year Pilot Airspeed Aircraft Comments
mph km/h
1952 Ted Powles 690 1,100 Supermarine Spitfire Fastest propeller-driven aircraft
1967 'Pete' Knight 4,519 7,274 North American X-15 Rocket plane; incapable of breathing air
April 1981 - July 2011 Multiple 17,500 28,000 Space Shuttle Speed attained during atmospheric reentry
11 August 1986 John Egginton 249.1 400.87 Westland Lynx 800 G-LYNX Fastest helicopter
31 December 1988 L.P. Krantov 258.8 415 Tupolev Tu-134A Fastest landing speed record (76 passengers aboard, no one harmed)
21 August 1989 Lyle Shelton 528 850 F8F Bearcat Rare Bear Fastest straight-line piston-engined aircraft
16 November 2004 Unmanned 7,546 12,144 NASA X-43A Air-launched hypersonic scramjet
22 December 2006 Klaus Ohlmann & Matias Garcia Mazzaro 190.6 306.8 Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4DM Fastest glider (sailplane) over 500km
15 September 2010 Kevin Bredenbeck 299 481 Sikorsky X2 Fastest compound helicopter (unofficial)
12 June 2009 Robin Shrestha 155 250 SkySpark Fastest electric only aircraft

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