WWII AIRCRAFT RANKED BY SPEED

[fubar57]

660 aircraft ranked by speed. The top 30 or so are mostly Luft '46 types so take it with a grain of salt. I'm just posting it for curiosity sake. You guys can go nuts on the accuracy...

https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/ww2-aircraft-ranked-by-speed.asp

 

[fubar57]

I neglected to mention, click on the aircraft to open it's story

 

[GregP]

Luft 46 aircraft are fantasy. When a list starts off with fantasy airplanes, it is almost by definition, not very accurate.

 

[fubar57]

Pretty much what I said

 

[vikingBerserker]

I had no idea WW2 lasted until 1949!

It is interesting however.

 

[GrauGeist]

Not sure where they get their numbers from (on the real aircraft), the He280 was faster than any piston fighter, but it's max. speed was in the low 500's and the He162 was just a bit faster than the Me262 (both topped out in the 560's at altitude).

 

[K5083]

Couldn't see a Meteor IV, which actually existed and was the first aircraft to hold a world airspeed record over 600mph. There's probably a case for Vampire too, unless I missed it amongst all the fictional types.

 

[GrauGeist]

The Meteor's official speed record was set post-war (with an F.4) - only the F.1 and F.3 saw service during WWII.

 

[swampyankee]

The Meteor's official speed record was set post-war (with an F.4) - only the F.1 and F.3 saw service during WWII.

Quite a few of the aircraft on that list did not see service at any time.

 

[pinehilljoe]

Thanks, there is so much data its hard to sift the wheat from the chafe

 

[Graeme]

I notice the site has a similar speed listing for "X-Planes" so I'm not sure why they repeated some of the 46Lufters again?

https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/ww2-aircraft-ranked-by-speed-xplanes.asp.

My knowledge on German projects is limited but there would've been faster projected speeds on the drawing office boards than that darty thingy? That Coal Sniffing Lippisch P.13 for example? >1,000 mph...

Lippisch P.13a - Wikipedia

 

[RCAFson]

I note that all the UK WW2 Jets are missing from the table.

 

[swampyankee]

The SOC was faster than a bunch of "aircraft" listed; it's hard to get much speed out of a napkin

 

[GrauGeist]

I note that all the UK WW2 Jets are missing from the table.

There's some listed, but you have to weed through the long-winded fantasy list to find them.

I'd caution anyone that isn't"t well versed in WWII aircraft to avoid that fictional list of horse-s**t...

 

[Zipper730]

Honestly, the problem with charts like these: They're too simplistic.

They fail to reflect altitude on speed.

 

[GrauGeist]

Honestly, the problem with charts like these: They're too simplistic.

They fail to reflect altitude on speed.

Or the actual speed rated for a particular type (meaning real aircraft, not fantasy drawings) like the He280 for example - it was fast for it's time, but max. speed was about 501 mph not 560 or whatever they had listed.

 

[fubar57]

It starts................

 

[GrauGeist]

It starts................

Stop trolling!!

 

[Graeme]

Speed trivia...

 

[fubar57]

I must be part Cheetah