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The fastest jet plane is the SR-71 Blackbird, which, according to official records, goes "Mach 3+". It is widely suspected that the plane goes significantly faster than that, but that the government doesn't want its exact capabilities divulged. The X-5 experimental plane was faster and went approximately Mach 5, but this was more of a rocket with a pilot than a plane. It had to be dropped from the belly of a bomber because it was not designed to take off from the ground, so by most definitions it doesn't qualify as a plane. -
Just retired from service recently, the Concorde was the world's fastest Jet Airliner. Able to cruise above mach 2.0 it could outstrip quite a few military aircraft as well.
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The Russian Tupolev Tu-144 was actually slightly faster than the Concorde. However it burned more fuel and had a shorter range. Seventeen were built with the first one becoming operational in 1977. After a third Tu-144 crashed in 1985 all were retired from service.
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Actually the fastest jet (depending on what you call a jet) was an expierement with scram jets a normal (comparitivley) brought the unmanned jet up to a high enough speed for the air to "ram" itself through the jet without the turbines and reached mach 7 for a small amount of time then it crashed the only reason I know this is because our school hands out little magazines that have "intresting" articles
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The fastest is Aurora, a reconnaissance jet capable of Mach 6 to Mach 20. There are several websites such as the one below which has a specifications page based upon the technology, eyewitnesses plus a video. The USA Air Force still denies that it exists, just as they denied the F117 stealth fighter for 10 years after its first flights from Groom Lake, NV (aka Area 51). I believe Aurora exists, based upon the technical capability and the observations or Ram jet con-trails over Los Angeles and elsewhere. http://www.area51zone.com/aircraft/aurora.shtml
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