As far as the worlds fastest aircraft goes i know for a fact that the U.S. government has a craft that can go around the globe in thirty minutes. Im not a pilot nor anything closely related but while i was in the marine corps i saw this craft attached to the bottom of a bomber. I was told the reason for that was that when it took of from a dead stop it pulled so many G's it would kill the pilot due to asfixiation.

Originally posted by bigx01

Originally posted by huskers
never had one tell me their real altitude once they got above FL 600

JMHO

[Edited on 27-1-2004 by huskers]

FL600 would be 600,000 feet FL60 would be 60,000

there's a saying with airline pilots. "don't trust anyone over 30" they don't mean age they mean 30,000 feet

I know this post is over three years old, but I can't let this one go.

Flight levels are set in 100ft increments, not 1000ft - Flight Level 1 is 100ft, Flight Level 600 is 60,000ft.

And as airliners regularly cruise at altitudes between 33,000ft and 39,000ft your saying is utterly pointless.

The space shuttle is a lifting body and just drops down from space. It is not a powered flight.