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Can pilots really go Mach 10?

Mach 10 speed has never been achieved by a manned aircraft, though, so it has never been tested. Mach 10 has, however, been achieved by a spacecraft - on November 16, 2004, NASA launched the X-43A, an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle, and was able to reach real Mach 10 while being pushed into the atmosphere.



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Its designers claim that it could travel at speeds as fast as Mach 10, reaching New York from London in 30 minutes.

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In the air, the record belongs to the US Air Force's X-15 jet, which reached speeds of Mach 6.72. Translation? 4520 miles per hour. If you need a point of reference for this astronomical figure, I've got it for you: at that speed, you could circumnavigate the globe in just over 100 minutes.

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