Nasa breaksspeed record!!!

[SwissGrenadier]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/28/hypersonic.jet.flight/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.html

Congrats woot

[Minjin]

Craziness....what is the record for manned flight?

[Falco]

I think the X-15 did something like Mach 5

[Ratamacue]

The X-15, which was a rocket-powered aircraft, set an altitude record of 354,200 feet (107,300 meters) on 22 August 1963, and a speed record of Mach 6.7 on 3 October 1967.