Top 10: The fastest aircraft ever made ...

Some of the fastest fighter jets ever built date back decades, yet many still outrun modern designs on raw speed alone. This breakdown ranks the quickest fighters on record, explains why they were ...

The F-4 Phantom II set records for its top speed and maximum altitude. Even today, the F-4 outruns numerous modern aircraft ...

Despite claims of Mach 2.54, pilots report that the fastest speeds achieved in practice are Mach 2.25–2.3 in brand-new ...

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...