What was the first plane to go 100 mph?

First aircraft to exceed 160 km/h (100 mph) in level flight: Maurice Prévost flew a Deperdussin Monocoque in the 1913 Gordon Bennett Trophy race averaging over 160 km/h (100 mph) during a lap on September 28, 1913.



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Seventy-five years ago, on October 14, 1947, the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, piloted by U.S. Air Force Captain Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound (Mach 1). The experimental purpose-built aircraft reached 1,127 kilometers (700 miles) per hour (Mach 1.06).

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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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According to Drela, today's airplane builders actually favor a smaller, lighter, and therefore slower aircraft that peaks its fuel efficiency at slower speeds. (Cars also become more efficient at slower speeds on highways.)

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The first commercial flight in 1914 hovered at a cruising altitude of just 5 feet in the air. In the 1930s, planes began to hit the 200 mph mark, and settled into a cruising altitude of about 13,000 feet.

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There are a number of different types of jet fighters, at least one bomber, and experimental aircraft that are capable of speeds in excess of 1000 MPH, but most not for very long nor very far. If an airplane travels at a constant speed of 280 miles per hour. How far, in miles, will the airplane travel in 20 minutes?

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Supersonic aircraft However, none of these aircraft have reached the speed of 2000 mph. The fastest supersonic jet, the SR-71 Blackbird, holds the record for the fastest speed ever recorded by a manned aircraft, reaching approximately 2193 mph (3530 km/h).

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The final flight of the small X-43A research aircraft is targeted to sustain a speed of up to Mach 10, or 10 times the speed of sound (about 7,000 mph), powered by a revolutionary airframe-integrated supersonic-combustion ramjet or 'scramjet' engine.

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Top 10 Fastest Fighter Jets in the world
  • NASA/USAF X-15 - Mach 6.72 (4,520 mph)
  • SR-71 Blackbird - Mach 3.4 (2,500 mph+)
  • Lockheed YF-12 - Mach 3.2 (2,275 mph)
  • MiG-25 Foxbat - Mach 3.2 (2,190 mph)
  • Bell X-2 Starbuster - Mach 3.2 (2,094 mph)
  • XB-70 Valkyrie - Mach 3.02 (2,056 mph)
  • MiG-31 Foxhound - Mach 2.83 (1,864 mph)


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