Favorite 5 Aircraft- All Eras Allowed.

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my 5 favorite:
1. Lockheed F-22A (stealth Air-Air, super-cruise, in short, everything)
2. Messerschmitts Me-262 (superb armament, good 4 tank busting, can outrun everything the allies had sent to intercept them)
3. Boeing B-29 (in short, best bomber of the entire World war 2)
4. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (highest flying AND fastest aircraft on the planet)
5. Lockheed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (Marine Version) (SToVL!!, half-stealth, can act as a fighter as well)
 
I think the thing is that the speed of the Me-262 wasn't a real advantage to tank busting.
 
They did use Me-262A-2as against Soviet armour, I do believe. I think they also used R4/Ms for the job, while they were at it.

The Blackbird isn't the fastest plane on the planet, the X-15 is.
 
The X-15 does something like Mach 6, I doubt the Blackbird can hit that. I've seen Mach 3.2 for the Blackbird, I imagine it will go faster but I highly doubt Mach 6.
 
What is known and public knowledge is that NASA uses the SR-71 as a chase plane for shuttle landings. There have been open radio channels used where the shuttle reported it's current air speed and there is one particular event where the shuttle pilot did not unkey his mike before saying "There goes the blackbird". I don't remember the exact speed, but I remember my buddy looking over at me with his eyebrows raised and said "oops, he wasn't supposed to say that". We were at Edwards for a shuttle recovery at the time. I think you would be surprised at how fast that thing can go.

You should watch it on a radar screen sometime, it is bloody amazing! Depending on the resolution of the screen (milage range) it can appear from one side of the screen to the next, or only show up once!
 
A rocket needs to go Mach 8 to get out of the atmosphere. The X-15 is highly recognised as the fastest plane on the planet at Mach 6. I reckon, at best, the SR-71 goes around Mach 4.
It certainly is impressive, but a shuttle is slowing down as it hits the ground. I reckon they land at around Mach 2 - 3. A controlled crash, a bit like a Lightning landing.
 
The X-15 went over 200,000ft...I think it was so high it was techinically out of the earths atmosphere.

x-15.jpg
 
Skimming the earths atmosphere, it never actually went out. That would be impossible, at only Mach 6.
 
SR-71 isn't the fastest plane opn the earth, the X-15 is only the fastest MANNED craft, nasa has launched unmanned craft at over mach 10, and the SR-71 holds the world speed and altitude record at something like mach 3.31 and 80,000+ft, to qualify for this record the craft must be powered by a conventional jet engine and must be able to take off and land under it's own power, which the X-15 could not, but they're only a couple of the things needed to qualify................
 
yes but it does not hold the officail world speed record because it couldn't take off and land under it's own power and wasn't powered by a conventional jet engine.............
 
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