Since the start of military aviation, speed has been a defining factor in how fighters are built and used. Faster speeds ...
On October 3, 1967, U.S. Air Force pilot William “Pete” Knight flew the X-15A-2 to 4,520 miles per hour — Mach 6.7 — setting ...
On August 12, 1985, after taking off from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, JAL 123 was supposed to make a routine 54-minute flight to ...