List of flight airspeed records
An air speed record is the highest airspeed attained by an aircraft of a particular class. The rules for all official aviation records are defined by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI),[1] which also ratifies any claims. Speed records are divided into a number of classes with sub-divisions. There are three classes of aircraft: landplanes, seaplanes, and amphibians, and within these classes there are records for aircraft in a number of weight categories. There are still further subdivisions for piston-engined, turbojet, turboprop, and rocket-engined aircraft. Within each of these groups, records are defined for speed over a straight course and for closed circuits of various sizes carrying various payloads.
Timeline
[edit | edit source]Gray text indicates unofficial records, including unconfirmed or unpublicized war secrets.
| Date | Pilot | Airspeed | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mph | km/h | Aircraft | ||||
| 17 December 1903 | Error creating thumbnail: Wilbur Wright | 6.82 | 10.98 | Wright Flyer | Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, US | This figure is ground speed, not airspeed. The Wrights' first flight covered just over 120 ft (40 m) and about 12 seconds into a gusty wind. The Wrights estimated airspeed at 31 mph (50 km/h). |
| 5 October 1904 | 37.85 | 60.23 | Wright Flyer III | Huffman Prairie, Ohio, US | ||
| 12 November 1906 | Brazil Alberto Santos-Dumont | 25.65 | 41.292 | Santos-Dumont 14-bis | Bagatelle Castle, Paris, France | First officially recognized airspeed record.[2][3]: 7 |
| 26 October 1907 | France Henri Farman | 32.73 | 52.700 | Voisin-Farman I | Issy-les-Moulineaux, France | [2][3]: 9 |
| 25 May 1909 | France Paul Tissandier | 34.04 | 54.810 | Wright Model A | Pau, France | [2][3]: 11 |
| 23 August 1909 | Error creating thumbnail: Glenn Curtiss | 44.367 | 69.821 | Curtiss No. 2 | Reims, France | 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup.[2][4]: 37–38 |
| 24 August 1909 | France Louis Blériot | 46.160 | 74.318 | Blériot XI | [2][3]: 13 | |
| 28 August 1909 | 47.823 | 76.995 | [2][3]: 13 | |||
| 23 April 1910 | France Hubert Latham | 48.186 | 77.579 | Antoinette VII | Nice, France | [2][3]: 18 |
| 10 July 1910 | France Léon Morane | 66.154 | 106.508 | Blériot | Reims, France | [2][3]: 13 |
| 29 October 1910 | France Alfred Leblanc | 68.171 | 109.756 | Blériot XI | New York, New York, US | [2][3]: 13 |
| 12 April 1911 | 69.442 | 111.801 | Blériot | Pau, France | [2][3]: 14 | |
| 11 May 1911 | France Édouard Nieuport | 73.385 | 119.760 | Nieuport IIN | Châlons, France | [2][3]: 25 |
| 12 June 1911 | France Alfred Leblanc | 77.640 | 125.000 | Blériot | [2] | |
| 16 June 1911 | France Édouard Nieuport | 80.781 | 130.057 | Nieuport IIN | Châlons, France | [2][3]: 25 |
| 21 June 1911 | 82.693 | 133.136 | [2][3]: 25 | |||
| 13 January 1912 | France Jules Védrines | 87.68 | 145.161 | Deperdussin Monocoque | Pau, France | [2][3]: 27 |
| 22 February 1912 | 100.18 | 161.290 | [2][3]: 27 | |||
| 29 February 1912 | 100.90 | 162.454 | [2][3]: 27 | |||
| 1 March 1912 | 103.62 | 166.821 | [2][3]: 27 | |||
| 2 March 1912 | 104.29 | 167.910 | [2][3]: 27 | |||
| 13 July 1912 | 106.07 | 170.777 | Reims, France | [2][3]: 27 | ||
| 9 September 1912 | 108.14 | 174.100 | Chicago, Illinois, US | [2][3]: 27 | ||
| 17 June 1913 | France Maurice Prévost | 111.69 | 179.820 | Reims, France | [2][3]: 31 | |
| 27 September 1913 | 119.19 | 191.897 | [2][3]: 31 | |||
| 29 September 1913 | 126.61 | 203.850 | [2][3]: 31 | |||
| 1914 | United Kingdom Norman Spratt | 134.5 | 216.5 | Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.4 | Unofficial | |
| August 1918 | Error creating thumbnail: Roland Rohlfs | 163 | 262.3 | Curtiss Wasp | Not officially recognised.[4]: 140 | |
| 1919 | France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe | 191.1 | 307.5 | Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V | Not officially recognised. | |
| 7 February 1920 | France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe | 171.0 | 275.264 | Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V | Villacoublay, France. | [5] First official record post World War 1.[2][3]: 33 |
| 28 February 1920 | France Jean Casale | 176.1 | 283.464 | SPAD S.20bis | [2][3]: 37 [6] | |
| 9 October 1920 | France Bernard de Romanet | 181.8 | 292.682 | Buc, France | [2][3]: 37 [7] | |
| 10 October 1920 | France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe | 184.3 | 296.694 | Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V | [2][3]: 33 | |
| 20 October 1920 | 187.9 | 302.529 | Villacoublay, France | [2][3]: 33 | ||
| 4 November 1920 | France Bernard de Romanet | 191.9 | 309.012 | SPAD S.XX | Buc, France | [2][8] |
| 12 December 1920 | France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe | 194.4 | 313.043 | Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V | Villacoublay, France | [2][3]: 33 |
| 26 September 1921 | 205.2 | 330.275 | Nieuport-Delage Sesquiplan | Ville Sauvage, France | [3]: 39 [9] | |
| 13 October 1922 | Error creating thumbnail: Billy Mitchell | 222.88 | 358.836 | Curtiss R | Detroit, Michigan, US | [2][10] |
| 18 October 1922 | 224.28 | 360.93 | Curtiss R-6 | Selfridge Field, Detroit, Michigan, US | [3]: 41 [4]: 232–3 [11] | |
| 15 February 1923 | France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe | 232.91 | 375.00 | Nieuport-Delage NiD 42S | Istres, France | [10] |
| 29 March 1923 | Error creating thumbnail: 1st Lt. Russell L. Maughan | 236.587 | 380.74 | Curtiss R-6 | Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, US | [3]: 41 [4]: 233 [12] |
| 2 November 1923 | Error creating thumbnail: Lt. Harold J. Brow | 259.16 | 417.07 | Curtiss R2C-1 | Mineola, New York, US | [3]: 43 [4]: 235 |
| 4 November 1923 | Error creating thumbnail: Lt. Alford J. Williams | 266.59 | 429.02 | [3]: 43 [4]: 235 [13] | ||
| 11 November 1924 | France Florentin Bonnet | 278.37 | 448.171 | Bernard-Ferbois V.2 | [2] | |
| 4 November 1927 | Kingdom of Italy Mario de Bernardi | 297.70 | 479.290 | Macchi M.52 seaplane | Venice, Italy | Database ID 11828[1][2] |
| 30 March 1928 | 318.620 | 512.776 | Macchi M.52bis seaplane | Database ID 11827[1][14] | ||
| August 1929 | Kingdom of Italy Giuseppe Motta | 362.0 | 582.6 | Macchi M.67 seaplane | Unofficial | |
| 10 September 1929 | United Kingdom George H. Stainforth | 336.3 | 541.4 | Gloster VI seaplane | Calshot, UK | Database ID 11829[1][15] |
| 12 September 1929 | United Kingdom Augustus Orlebar | 357.7 | 575.5 | Supermarine S.6 seaplane | Database ID 11830[1][16] | |
| 13 September 1931 | United Kingdom George H. Stainforth | 407.5 | 655.8 | Lee-on-the-Solent, UK | Database ID 11831[1][17] | |
| 10 April 1933 | Kingdom of Italy Francesco Agello | 423.6 | 682.078 | Macchi M.C.72 seaplane | Desenzano del Garda, Italy | Database ID 11836[1][2] |
| 23 October 1934 | 440.5 | 709.209 | Database ID 4497, current piston-engined seaplane speed record.[1][2] | |||
| 13 September 1935 | Error creating thumbnail: Howard Hughes | 354.4 | 567.12 | Hughes H-1 Racer | Santa Ana, California, US | FAI Database ID 8748[18] |
| 11 November 1937 | Nazi Germany Dr. Hermann Wurster | 379.63 | 610.95 | Messerschmitt Bf 109 V.13 | Augsburg, Germany | FAI Database ID 8747[19] |
| 30 March 1939 | Nazi Germany Hans Dieterle | 466.6 | 746.60 | Heinkel He 100 V8 | Oranienburg, Germany | FAI Database ID 8744[20] |
| 26 April 1939 | Nazi Germany Fritz Wendel | 469.220 | 755.138 | Messerschmitt Me 209 V1 | Augsburg, Germany | Piston-engined record until 1969[21] |
| 2 October 1941 | Nazi Germany Heini Dittmar | 623.65 | 1,003.67 | Messerschmitt Me 163A "V4" | Peenemünde-West, Germany | Rocket powered – World War II secret, not an Official FAI record but over the 3 km (1.9 mi) FAI distance[22]: 122 [23][24] |
| 1944 | Nazi Germany Heinz Herlitzius | 624 | 1,004 | Messerschmitt Me 262 S2 | Leipheim, Germany | World War II secret, not an Official FAI record. Steep dive.[22]: 122 |
| 6 July 1944 | Nazi Germany Heini Dittmar | 702 | 1,130 | Messerschmitt Me 163B "V18" | Lagerlechfeld, Germany | Rocket powered – World War II secret, not an Official FAI record. Dive, details unknown.[22]: 122 |
| 7 November 1945 | United Kingdom H. J. Wilson | 606.4 | 975.9 | Gloster Meteor F Mk.4 | Herne Bay, UK | EE454 Britannia, first official record post World War II.[3]: 107 [25] |
| 7 September 1946 | United Kingdom Edward Mortlock Donaldson | 615.78 | 990.79 | Gloster Meteor F Mk.4 | Littlehampton, UK | [25] EE530, a long-span Mk 4.[3]: 107 |
| 19 June 1947 | Error creating thumbnail: Col. Albert Boyd | 623.74 | 1,003.60 | Lockheed P-80R Shooting Star | Muroc (Edwards AFB), California, US | [26] |
| 20 August 1947 | Error creating thumbnail: Cmdr. Turner Caldwell | 640.663 | 1,031.049 | Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak | First record flight to exceed secret October 1941 Me 163A V4 figure[27] | |
| 25 August 1947 | Error creating thumbnail: Major Marion Eugene Carl USMC | 650.796 | 1,047.356 | [27] | ||
| 14 October 1947 | Error creating thumbnail: Chuck Yeager | 670.0 | 1,078 | Bell X-1 (flight #50) | Muroc, California, US | Rocket powered – Cold War secret, not an official FAI C-1 record |
| 6 November 1947 | Error creating thumbnail: Chuck Yeager | 891.0 | 1,434 | Bell X-1 (flight #58) | Muroc, California, US | Rocket powered – Cold War secret, not an official FAI C-1 record, first to exceed secret July 1944 Me 163B V18 record |
| 15 September 1948 | Error creating thumbnail: Maj. Richard L. Johnson, USAF | 670.84 | 1,079.6 | North American F-86A-3 Sabre | Cleveland, Ohio, US | [2][28] |
| 18 November 1952 | Error creating thumbnail: J. Slade Nash | 698.505 | 1,124.13 | North American F-86D Sabre | Salton Sea, California, US | [29] |
| 16 July 1953 | Error creating thumbnail: William Barnes | 715.745 | 1,151.88 | North American F-86D Sabre | Salton Sea, California, US | [30] |
| 7 September 1953 | United Kingdom Neville Duke | 727.6 | 1,171 | Hawker Hunter Mk.3 | Littlehampton, UK | [31] |
| 26 September 1953 | United Kingdom Mike Lithgow | 735.7 | 1,184 | Supermarine Swift F4 | Castel Idris, Tripoli, Libya | [32] |
| 3 October 1953 | Error creating thumbnail: James B. Verdin, US Navy | 752.9 | 1,211.5 | Douglas F4D Skyray | Salton Sea, California, US | [33] |
| 29 October 1953 | Error creating thumbnail: Frank K. Everest USAF | 755.1 | 1,215.3 | North American F-100 Super Sabre | Salton Sea, California, US | |
| 20 August 1955 | Error creating thumbnail: Horace A. Hanes | 822.1 | 1,323 | North American F-100C Super Sabre | Palmdale, California, US | |
| 10 March 1956 | United Kingdom Peter Twiss | 1,132 | 1,822 | Fairey Delta 2 | Chichester, UK | [34] |
| 12 December 1957 | Error creating thumbnail: USAF | 1,207.6 | 1,943.5 | McDonnell F-101A Voodoo | Muroc, California, US | [35] |
| 16 May 1958 | Error creating thumbnail: Capt. Walt Wayne Irwin, USF | 1,404.012 | 2,259.538 | Lockheed YF-104A Starfighter | [3]: 147 [36] | |
| 5 October 1959 | France Maj. André Turcat | 1,441.6 | 2,320 | Nord 1500 Griffon | France | [37] |
| 31 October 1959 | Soviet Union Col. Georgi Mosolov | 1,484 | 2,388 | Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-6/3 or Ye-66 | USSR | [38] |
| 15 December 1959 | Error creating thumbnail: Maj. Joseph Rogers, USAF | 1,525.9 | 2,455.7 | Convair F-106 Delta Dart | Muroc, California, US | The record should have gone to civilian (former military) pilot Charles Myers, who flew a Delta Dart at 2,485 kilometres per hour (1,544 mph) in 1959, but Cold War pressures dictated that the award go to an active-military pilot.[39][40][41] |
| 22 November 1961 | Error creating thumbnail: Robert B. Robinson, US Navy | 1,606.3 | 2,585.1 | McDonnell-Douglas F4H-1F Phantom II | Muroc, California, US | [3]: 165 [42] |
| 7 July 1962 | Soviet Union Col. Georgi Mosolov | 1,665.9 | 2,681 | Mikoyan Gurevich Ye-166 | USSR | [43][44] Name adopted for record attempt, a version of a Ye-152 a.k.a. E-166.[3]: 179 |
| 1 May 1965 | Error creating thumbnail: Robert L. Stephens and Daniel Andre |
2,070.1 | 3,331.5 | Lockheed YF-12A | Muroc, California, US | [45] |
| 28 July 1976 | Error creating thumbnail: Capt. Eldon W. Joersz (P) and Maj. George T. Morgan Jr. (RSO) |
2,193.2 | 3,529.6 | Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird #61-7958 | Beale AFB, US | [46] |
Official records versus unofficial
[edit | edit source]The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird holds the official Air Speed Record for a crewed airbreathing jet engine aircraft with a speed of 3,529.6 km/h (2,193.2 mph). The record was set on 28 July 1976 by Eldon W. Joersz and George T. Morgan Jr. near Beale Air Force Base, California, USA. It was able to take off and land unassisted on conventional runways.[47] SR-71 pilot Brian Shul claimed in The Untouchables that he flew in excess of Mach 3.5 on 15 April 1986, over Libya, in order to avoid a missile.[48]
Although the official record for fastest piston-engined aeroplane in level flight was held by a Grumman F8F Bearcat, the Rare Bear, with a speed of 850.23 km/h (528.31 mph), the unofficial record for fastest piston-engined aeroplane in level flight is held by a British Hawker Sea Fury at 880 km/h (547 mph). Both were demilitarised and modified fighters, while the fastest stock (original, factory-built) piston-engined aeroplane was unofficially the Supermarine Spiteful F Mk 16, which "achieved a speed of 494m.p.h. at 28,500ft during official tests at Boscombe Down" in level flight.[49] The unofficial record for fastest piston-engined aeroplane (not in level flight) is held by a Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XIX flown by Flight Lieutenant Edward "Ted" Powles, which was calculated to have achieved a speed of 1,110 km/h (690 mph) in a dive on 5 February 1952.
The last new speed record ratified before the outbreak of World War II was set on 26 April 1939 with a Me 209 V1, at 755 km/h (469 mph). The chaos and secrecy of World War II meant that new speed breakthroughs were neither publicized nor ratified. In October 1941, an unofficial speed record of 1,004 km/h (624 mph) was secretly set by a Messerschmitt Me 163A "V4" rocket aircraft. Continued research during the war extended the secret, unofficial speed record to 1,130 km/h (700 mph) by July 1944, achieved by a Messerschmitt Me 163B "V18". The first new official record in the post-war period was achieved by a Gloster Meteor F Mk.4 in November 1945, at 975 km/h (606 mph). The first aircraft to exceed the unofficial October 1941 record of the Me 163A V4 was the Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak, which achieved 1,032 km/h (641 mph) in August 1947. The July 1944 unofficial record of the Me 163B V18 was officially surpassed in November 1947, when Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 to 1,434 km/h (891 mph).
The official speed record for a seaplane moved by piston engine is 709.209 km/h (440.682 mph), which attained on 24 October 1934, by Francesco Agello in the Macchi-Castoldi M.C.72 seaplane ("idrocorsa") and it remains the current record.[50] It was equipped with the Fiat AS.6 engine (version 1934) developing a power of 2,300 kW (3,100 hp) at 3,300 rpm, with coaxial counter-rotating propellers. The original record holding Macchi-Castoldi M.C.72 MM.181 seaplane is at the Air Force Museum at Vigna di Valle in Italy.
Other air speed records
[edit | edit source]| Date | Pilot | Airspeed | Aircraft | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mph | km/h | ||||
| 2 October 1985 | Holger Rochelt | 27.54 | 44.32 | Musculair 2 | Fastest human-powered aircraft[51] |
| 22 December 2006 | Klaus Ohlmann & Matias Garcia Mazzaro | 190.6 | 306.8 | Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4DM | Fastest (non-powered) glider over 500 km[52] |
| 11 August 1986 | Trevor Egginton | 249 | 400.87 | Westland Lynx | Fastest helicopter[53][54][55] |
| 31 December 1988 | L.P. Krantov | 258.8 | 415 | Tupolev Tu-134A | Highest landing speed for a civil aircraft[56] |
| 11 June 2013 | Hervé Jammayrac | 293 | 472 | Eurocopter X3 | Fastest propeller compound helicopter[57] |
| 15 September 2010 | Kevin Bredenbeck | 299 | 481 | Sikorsky X2 | Fastest compound helicopter, shallow dive (unofficial)[58] |
| 19 March 1989 | Unknown pilot | 316 | 509 | Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey[59][60] | Tiltrotor |
| 15 April 1969 | Unknown pilot | 316 | 509 | Bell 533 | Compound jet helicopter[61][62] |
| 19 November 2021 | Steve Jones | 345.4 | 555.9 | Rolls-Royce Accel ‘Spirit of Innovation’ | Fastest electric-only aeroplane[63] |
| 22 June 2025 | Luke Maximo Bell | 360.4 | 580.0 | Peregreen 3 | Fastest quadcopter/ drone[64] |
| 6 February 2003 | Joseph J. Ritchie, Steve Fossett | 576.3 | 927.4 | Piaggio P.180 Avanti | Fastest propeller-driven aircraft of any type.[65] |
| 2 September 2017 | Steve Hinton Jr. | 531.53 | 855.41 | P-51 "Voodoo" | Fastest straight-line piston-engined aircraft in level flight[66][67] |
| 9 April 1960 | Ivan Sukhomlin, Konstantin Sapielkine | 545.07 | 877.21 | Tupolev Tu-114 | Fastest propeller-driven airliner-size aircraft, per FAI.[68] |
| 5 February 1952 | Flight Lieutenant Edward Powles | 690 | 1,110.4 | Supermarine Spitfire PR.XIX PS852 | Reached (Mach 0.96) during an emergency dive while carrying out spying flights over China, the highest speed ever recorded for a piston-engined aircraft (though not in level flight).[69] |
| 14 October 2012 | Felix Baumgartner | 844 | 1,358 | None (jumped from a helium balloon gondola) | Fastest unpowered descent of a human[70][71] |
| 7 February 1996 | Captain Leslie Scott | 1,249 | 2,010 | Concorde | Fastest passenger plane on a regular route[72] |
| 3 October 1967 | William 'Pete' Knight | 4,519 | 7,274 | North American X-15 | Rocket plane[73] |
| 16 November 2004 | Uncrewed | 6,755 | 10,870 | NASA X-43A | Air-launched hypersonic scramjet; fastest free-flying air-breathing vehicle[74] |
| 22 April 2010 | Uncrewed | 13,201 | 21,245 | HTV-2 Falcon | Air-launched hypersonic glider; fastest uncrewed aerial vehicle[75] |
| 14 November 1981 | Joe H. Engle | 17,500 | 28,000 | Space Shuttle Columbia | Fastest manually controlled flight in atmosphere during atmospheric reentry of STS-2 mission. |
| 15 November 1988 | Uncrewed | 18,019 | 29,000 | Buran | The fastest unmanned (but capable of carrying up to 8-10 people) spaceplane ever built,[citation needed] weighing 100 tons or more. |
Flying between any two airports allow a large number of combinations, so setting a speed record ("speed over a recognised course") is fairly easy with an ordinary aircraft, although there are many administrative requirements for recognition.[76][77][78]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Flight altitude record
- Fastest propeller-driven aircraft
- List of vehicle speed records
- Lockheed X-7 - Mach 4.31 (2,881 mph) in the 1950s
- Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
- World record
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- ^ Records Downloads, NAA.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Web site of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI)
- Speed records time line
- Speed Record Club - The Speed Record Club seeks to promote an informed and educated enthusiast identity, reporting accurately and impartially to the best of its ability on record-breaking engineering, events, attempts and history.
- Ground Speed Records - Breakdown of speed records by aircraft type
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