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 ...

A look at what made the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II so special.

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

Fighter aircraft rarely spend all that much time operating at their top speeds. However, analyzing the top speeds of different fighter aircraft can still tell you quite a lot about an aircraft's ...