Faster Than Missiles

The Fastest Airplane

Lockheed SR-71 is the fastest plane ever............Click here to Read

 to take to the Skies.With its Mach 3.3 cruise speed it can cover the distance between New York and London in under 2 hours.Special fuel had to be made to satisfy the fuel hungry engines of the Jet.Some of the parts used on SR-71 were so scarce that they had to be smuggled from inside the Soviet Union.Specialized pressure suits had to be developed to enable the pilots to survive at 80000 ft altitude.The temperature of the skin would rise to 500 degrees and the cockpit to 120 degrees during its flight.Specialized cooling system was developed which will dump the heat from the cockpit into the fuel tank.A tanker specifically designed was designated to refuel the fastest jet ever made by mankind