Here are Top Speed, we typically like to talk about fast cars, but every once in a while there is something that is so fast, we can’t help ourselves. Our most recent finding is something that tops out at 17 times the speed of light: the Falcon HTV-2.
The Falcon HTV-2 is a hypersonic aircraft created by The Pentagon and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of a new generation of hypersonic weapons that can strike faster than missiles. During its first test, the HTV-2 took only nine minutes to fly into space and then back to Earth, traveling at 13,000 mph. Unfortunately, that test was deemed unsuccessful because the aircraft had to deliberately crash due to safety measures. Now, a second test has been scheduled to see if the aircraft can successfully take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard an Air Force Minotaur IV rocket and fly from New York to Los Angeles in less than 12 minutes. A normal air plane does this trip in more than five hours.
Full story and video after the jump.
Falcon HTV-2 - the 13,000 mph aircraft originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 12 August 2011 15:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/falcon-htv-2the-13-000-mph-aircraft-ar114193.html
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