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The world’s notable passenger, fighter, bomber, experimental, and spy planes by David Noland Related Links Almanac: AviationFamous Firsts in AviationThe Spirit of St. LouisAbsolute World RecordsThe National Aviation Hall of FameThe Wright Brothers Centennial Passenger Planes Boeing 707 The world’s first successful commercial jetliner Boeing 747 They’ve flown more than 3.5 billion passengers, the equivalent of more than half the world’s population Concorde Its futuristic style and Mach 2 speed made it the darling of the jetset Private Planes Piper Cub “Flies like a Cub” is still the pilot’s ultimate compliment for an airplane Lear Jet 23 Brainchild of a tinkerer Fighter Planes P-51 Mustang The most famous and beloved warbird MiG-15 The air power of the Evil Empire Lockheed Martin F-16 The world’s most popular fighter plane Bombers Boeing B-52 More than fifty years later, it’s still flying Northrup B-2 (Stealth Bomber) The stealth bomber’s features cost twice their weight in gold Experimental and Spy Planes Bell X-1 A plane that went faster than the speed of sound Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird The plane that literally grew several inches at Mach 3
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The world’s notable passenger, fighter, bomber, experimental, and spy planes
Related Links
- Almanac: AviationFamous Firsts in AviationThe Spirit of St. LouisAbsolute World RecordsThe National Aviation Hall of FameThe Wright Brothers Centennial
Passenger Planes
- Boeing 707 The world’s first successful commercial jetliner Boeing 747 They’ve flown more than 3.5 billion passengers, the equivalent of more than half the world’s population Concorde Its futuristic style and Mach 2 speed made it the darling of the jetset
Private Planes
- Piper Cub “Flies like a Cub” is still the pilot’s ultimate compliment for an airplane Lear Jet 23 Brainchild of a tinkerer
Fighter Planes
- P-51 Mustang The most famous and beloved warbird MiG-15 The air power of the Evil Empire Lockheed Martin F-16 The world’s most popular fighter plane
Bombers
- Boeing B-52 More than fifty years later, it’s still flying Northrup B-2 (Stealth Bomber) The stealth bomber’s features cost twice their weight in gold
Experimental and Spy Planes
- Bell X-1 A plane that went faster than the speed of sound Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird The plane that literally grew several inches at Mach 3
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Experimental and Spy Planes: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
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- Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Current Events This Week: January 2023
- African Americans by the Numbers
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
- The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
