welcome to watch mojo
and today we'll be counting down our
picks for the top 10 fastest machines in
the world
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faster than a speeding bullet and unlike
any other aircraft ever built
it raced the sun and won britain's
thrust
ssc team has broken the world land speed
record
in nevada for this list we'll be looking
at the machines with the highest
recorded speeds
including aircrafts that are still in
development or testing
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number 10 baby boom xb1
the boom xb1 nicknamed baby boom
is a supersonic commercial jet currently
in development our goal
is to build a supersonic airliner that
carries passengers across the world
featuring three jet engines the xb1 is
plans to be the first in a new line of
commercially available supersonic
aircrafts
with a particular emphasis on comfort
and sustainability but most importantly
speed the company behind the remarkable
vehicle boom technology
aims to cut current travel times in half
when london is just
three and a half hours from new york you
can cross the atlantic
do business and be home in time to tuck
kids into bed
the xb1's cruising speed is stated to be
mach 2.2
which is around 1 675 miles per hour
that's faster than an f-16 baby boom is
set to take to the skies in 2021 for its
first test flight
and when xb1 takes to the skies next
year it will be history's first
independently developed supersonic jet
number nine
sr-71 blackbird faster than a speeding
bullet and unlike any other aircraft
ever built
it raced the sun and won the lockheed
sr-71 blackbird is a high-speed
reconnaissance aircraft
although officially retired in the late
90s the blackbird proved instrumental in
gathering intelligence during the cold
war
as it was able to evade radar detection
through its design lockheed blackbirds
built with radical new methods and
materials astound even the experts
designed under a top secret program they
seem to come out of nowhere
because it could fly higher and faster
than its pursuers not a single sr-71 was
lost to enemy fire
the blackbird typically operated at up
to 85 000 feet
and holds a speed record of 2 2193 miles
per hour
or mach 3.3 flying at three times the
speed of sound at
80 000 feet the sr-71
is in its own private sky there's no
other traffic up here
nor could there be so there's no threat
of a mid-air collision
that being said one pilot reports having
once pushed the plane above mach 3.5
when dodging a missile
we know what we're putting on our
christmas lists number eight
x-15 the north american x-15 was an
experimental rocket-powered aircraft
that ruled the skies during the 1960s
the wright brothers took us into the air
the x-15 was to take us beyond it
using a million horsepower rocket engine
the x-15 was designed to break away from
earth's gravity
and fly into space it would not orbit it
would go into space and back
in controlled flight the rocket plane
was used in early test flights that came
close enough to leaving the earth's
atmosphere
that many of its test pilots are
technically astronauts
some of them went on to become
astronauts including neil armstrong the
first human on the moon
when he separated from the wing of a
b-52
armstrong fired his engines he
accelerated at more than
five times the speed of sound reaching
altitudes exceeding two hundred thousand
feet
along with pushing the boundaries of
altitude the x-15 also set the record
for speed in a manned powered aircraft
on october 3rd 1967 william j knight
flew the x-15 at mach
6.7 or 4519 miles per hour
a record which remains in tax to this
day
x-15 is the key to an operational
procedure that will be directly
reflected
in the spacecraft and the space flights
of the future
number seven holloman rocket sleds
holloman air force base is located in
new mexico and contains a high-speed
rail testing area
since it first began operating in 1950
it's performed over 12 000
such tests and even has several
record-breaking launches to its name
it's easy for me to look back with a
certain amount of nostalgia and say
ah those were the good old days in a
sense
they were back in 2003 an unmanned sled
using a super roadrunner rocket motor
set the record for speed for a land
vehicle at a whopping
mach 8.4 or somewhere between 6416 and
6453
miles per hour however this speed was
eclipsed by a more recent test in 2019
which saw another rocket sled go 6599
miles per hour
or mach 8.6 locked onto the track and
traveling in a straight line these
rocket sleds give new meaning to the
phrase
going nowhere fast the goal speed is
posted all over our facility and that's
mach 10.
number 6 htv2 the hypersonic technology
vehicle 2
or htv2 is a glide aircraft that the
darpa falcon project
experimented with in the early 2010s
built of lightweight materials and in an
aerodynamic design
the htv-2 is part of a class of gliding
vehicles developed for military purposes
they're more maneuverable than ballistic
missiles and less likely to be spotted
by radar
the two tests of the htv-2 yielded top
speeds between
mach 17 and mach 22 or between 13
000 and 16 800 miles per hour
for comparison at its low end that's
double our last entry and almost
triple at the high end given its
intended use as a one hour prompt global
strike
it also makes for a frightening prospect
once this technology is perfected
number five apollo 10. spacecrafts go
fast
that's generally what tends to happen
when you strap a rocket to something
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however this record-setting speed wasn't
achieved on the way up
apollo 10 saw astronauts sent on a
mission to orbit the moon
in preparation for the famous apollo 11
mission which would land on its surface
apollo 10 took along all those who had
made and were making the conquest of the
moon
a reality the crew's journey however had
them making history in their own right
upon re-entry into earth's atmosphere
the module reached speeds of 24
791 miles per hour or mach
32 this impressive figure remains the
fastest recorded speed of a piloted
vehicle
astronaut eugene siernan described the
experience as akin to being inside quote
a ball of white and violet flame cernan
was the last person on the moon we
remember
all three in the apollo 10 mission for
paving the way for history
and then making some history of their
own number four
voyager 1 a long-range space probe sent
to study the outer planets
voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and is
still sending home data about the
universe
despite having left our solar system in
2012. it's currently farther away from
earth than any machine made by humankind
it's traveling 20 times faster than a
bullet
sending messages home but while it was
still in the solar system
voyager 1 made several flybys of the
outer planets and their moons
it was the gravity fields of the larger
planets like jupiter that helped voyager
1 accelerate to an awe-inspiring speed
of 38 000 miles per hour letting it
leave our home system in a hurry
voyager is destined to wander among the
stars
bolted to its side is a gold-plated
record
on it is a message from mankind to any
alien intelligence
it says this is a present
from a small and distant world number
three
new horizons
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no not the animal crossing game although
quarantine did help it get popular
astonishingly fast
we're talking about new horizons the
space probe
launched with the aim of exploring pluto
and the distant kuiper belt
new horizons was going over 36 000 miles
per hour while leaving earth's
atmosphere
new horizons velocity at launch was the
fastest
ever traveling almost 60 times faster
than a jetliner
new horizons managed to increase its
speed after leaving home
as it was moving at 47 000 miles per
hour after passing mars
orbit and jupiter's gravity increased
its speed to 52
000 miles per hour using the gravity of
giant planets
to boost the spacecraft and decrease
travel time
scientists were able to make a 13-year
trip
only nine and a half years its current
speed is now less so it will never
overtake voyager 1
but it's still traveling at truly
incredible speeds as it passes through
the kuiper belt
and leaves our solar system number two
helios a and b
the two helios probes were a joint
venture between west germany and the
united states to study the sun more
closely
launched in 1974 and 76 these probes
were the first of their kind to be
constructed outside the usa or ussr
and move beyond earth's orbit because
they were headed toward the sun
the star's tremendous gravity
accelerated their speeds to over 157
000 miles per hour that's three times
new horizon speed
helios would make one revolution every
second
the friction of space particles against
the capsule's body
would be considerable as it curls
through space at a speed of over 30 000
miles an hour
although the helios probes remain in the
sun's orbit they stopped transmitting
data after 1986 due to equipment
failures and degradation
they sure burned brightly during their
initial mission though
before we get to our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
thrust ssc the fastest car ever made
it's capable of 736 miles per hour
britain's thrust ssc team has broken the
world land speed record in nevada
hyperloop a proposed vacuum train with
estimated speeds of 760 miles per hour
in simple terms the system is made up of
two parts
a tube designed to generate very low air
pressure
and a carriage or pod that can travel
through the tube
without touching the ground cessna
citation 10 plus
the fastest civilian aircraft it has a
top speed of 606 miles per hour
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sc maglev the world's fastest train can
reach 375 miles per hour
a high-speed rail so fast blink and
you'll miss it
spirit of australia the fastest boat on
record it can hit speeds of 317 miles
per hour
the new world water speed record and
still the mark today
at an average of 317.6 miles per hour
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number one the parker solar probe our
fastest machine on record is also the
newest
three two one
zero liftoff of the mighty delta iv
heavy rocket
with nasa's parker solar probe a daring
mission to shed light on the mysteries
of our closest star
the sun another probe aimed at studying
the sun in this case its outer corona
the parker solar probe was launched in
august 2018.
it will use repeated gravity assists
from venus to get closer to the sun's
corona
as the probe passes close to the sun it
will briefly become the fastest machine
ever built by humans zipping along at a
brisk
430 000 miles per hour a side effect of
this
is that the parker solar probe speed
will keep increasing over time due to
the sun's pull and the slingshot
maneuvers around venus
as of september 2020 the probe has been
recorded at a speed of 289
927 miles per hour not only that
this speed is set to reach well over 400
000 miles per hour
by 2025. thanks to its design and
destination this cool confident
spacecraft is all set to explore
we can just sit back and chill as parker
solar probe takes the heat do you agree
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