This made it the fastest aircraft of the B-10 series.
At the time it came into service, the X-10 was one of the fastest turbojet-powered aircraft flown.
Its airliner version has been the fastest propeller-driven aircraft in the world since 1960.
The SR-71 was the world's fastest and highest-flying operational manned aircraft throughout its career.
An airliner variant Tu-114 holds the record as the world's fastest propeller-driven aircraft.
While it may have been designed as the fastest propeller-driven aircraft, this goal was not realized due to its inherent instability.
Advanced for its time, it was the fastest carrier-based aircraft put into service by Japan during the war.
They were also the biggest and fastest aircraft based at any Berlin airport at that time.
They set out to build a four-seat aircraft that was not only rugged, but the fastest aircraft as well.
The X-43 is the fastest aircraft on record at approximately 7000 miles per hour (10,461 km/h).