Speed has always been a focal point of many with an interest in any motorized form of transport, and aviation is no exception. Want to arrive at your destination rapidly? Book a ticket for one of these fastest passenger planes in the world.
All the way up to the nineties, aircraft manufacturers were trying to increase the speed of their airplanes and with it, decreasing the time it took to cross continents. Speed long had been a great selling point.
Another consideration has been the dramatic increase of fuel prices since the eighties and nineties. Since then, aircraft manufacturers have been forced to change their strategy from focusing on speed, to focussing on fuel economy instead.
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0:00 Introduction
0:19 Boeing 747-8 (614 mph)
1:12 Convair 880 (615 mph)
1:51 Convair 990 (620 mph)
2:29 Boeing 747-400 (624 mph)
3:19 Airbus A380 (736 mph)
4:08 Boeing 777 (745 mph)
4:48 Boeing 787 Dreamliner (776 mph)
5:37 Aerospatiale Concorde (1,354 mph)
6:18 Tupolev Tu-144 (1,600 mph)
7:01 Boom Overture (1,700 mph)
18 июн 2024
