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Outstanding Photos Of The X-15, The Fastest Manned Aircraft Ever Made
While the Blackbird SR-71 was the fastest manned aeroplane ever made, the fastest manned aircraft is the North American X-15, a rocket plane that flew for the first time on June 8, 1959, launched from a NASA NB-52B mothership. On October 1967 it pulverized all records: 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h).