Breaking The Sound Barrier - IPMS Finland's special exhibit at Helsinki Model Expo 1997
To commemorate the 50th anniversary year of Chuck Yeager's first supersonic flight, IPMS Finland held a special exhibit at the Helsinki Model Expo in Finland on April 25th thru 27th, 1997.
This list is compiled from various sources, both on the Net and from a huge pile of books. If there are any omissions or errors that you find, please feel free to point them out to me (and mention the source, too). I have purposefully excluded spaceships and missiles/rockets from this list.
The speed of sound depends on altitude. At sea level it is 1224 km/h and in 9100 meters' altitude 1090,8 km/h. The Earth's troposphere ends near 11000 meters, above which the speed of sound is approximately a constant 1061 km/h.
Airplanes that have reached Mach 1 in dive
- Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck Mach 1
- BAe Harrier Mach 1.3
- BAe Hawk Mach 1
- BAe Sea Harrier Mach 1.3
- De Havilland Swallow Mach 1 (crash?)
- Douglas DC-8 Mach 1.012
- Douglas X-3 Stiletto Mach 1
- Douglas D-558 I Skystreak Mach 1
- FIAT G.91 prototype NC.1 Mach 1
- Folland Gnat F.1 Mach 1
- Grumman F9F-8 Cougar Mach 1
- Handley Page Victor B.1 Mach 1
- Hawker Hunter Mach 1
- Lavochkin La-176 Mach 1
- Lockheed F-94C Starfire Mach 1
- MiG-15LL (special version) Mach 1
- MiG-17 Mach 1.03
- North American F-86 Sabre Mach 1
- SAAB 32 Lansen Mach 1+
- Sud Vautour Mach 1+
- Supermarine Swift Mach 1
Airplanes that have reached at least Mach 1 in level flight
- AIDC Ching-Kuo Mach 1.2
- Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow Mach 1.95 - 1.96
- BAC 221 Mach 1.6
- BAC TSR.2 Mach 1.15
- Bell X-1 Mach 1.45 first airplane, which has been proven to have exceeded Mach 1 in level flight
- Bell X-5 Mach 1.08
- Convair F-102 Delta Dagger Mach 1.25
- Convair XF2Y Sea Dart Mach 1.22
- Dassault Etendard Mach 1.02
- Dassault MD.550 Mirage II Mach 1.56
- Dassault Mystere IV Mach 1.02
- Dassault Super Etendard Mach 1+
- Dassault Super Mystere Mach 1+
- De Havilland Sea Vixen Mach 1
- Douglas F4D Skyray Mach 1.11
- Douglas XF5D Skylancer Mach 1.4
English Electric P.1A (Lightning predecessor) Mach 1.22
- Eurofighter 2000 Mach 1.7
- Fairey Delta 2 Mach 1.73
- General Dynamics YF-16 Mach 1.95
- Grumman F11F Tiger Mach 1.12
- Grumman X-29 Mach 1.6
- Hindustan Marut Mach 1.02
- IAI Lavi Mach 1.75
- Lavochkin La-190 Mach 1+
- Lavochkin La-250 Mach 1.85
- Martin Marietta X-24B Mach 1.76
- Martin-Marietta X-24A Mach 1.62
- McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet Mach 1.8
- McDonnell F-101 Voodoo Mach 1.85
- McDonnell F3H Demon Mach 1+
- MiG I-1/I-2/I-370 (test airplane) Mach 1.8
- MiG I-3/I-5/I-410 (test airplane) Mach 1.8
- MiG I-350M (test airplane) Mach 1.16
- MiG I-7 (test airplane) Mach 1.53
- MiG SM-12PM (converted MiG-19) Mach 1.6
- MiG E-2 (test airplane) Mach 1.74
- MiG-19 Mach 1.4
- MiG-27 Mach 1.6
- Mitsubishi F-1 Mach 1.6
- Mitsubishi T-2 Mach 1.6
- Nanchang J-12 Mach 1.2
- Nord 1402 Gerfaut Mach 1
- North American F-100 Super Sabre Mach 1.3
- North American YF-93 Mach 1.07
- Northrop F-20 Tigershark Mach 1.8
- Northrop F-5A/B Freedom Fighter Mach 1.4
- Northrop F-5E/F Tiger II Mach 1.6
- Northrop HL-10 lifting body Mach 1.86
- Northrop 2F3 lifting body Mach 1.6
- Northrop T-38 Talon Mach 1.3
- Northrop YF-17 Mach 1.9
- Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor Mach 1.45
- Rockwell B-1A Mach 1.8
- Rockwell B-1B Lancer M.1.2
- Saunders-Roe SR.53 Mach 1.95
- SEPECAT Jaguar Mach 1.6
- Shenyang 6 BIS "Fantan" Mach 1.35
- Soko Orao Mach 1+
- Sukhoi Su-17 Mach 1.8
- Sukhoi Su-20 Mach 1.8
- Sukhoi Su-22 Mach 1.8
- Sukhoi Su-24 Mach 1.35
- Sukhoi Su-7 Mach 1.6
- Sukhoi Su-9 Mach 1.8
- Sukhoi T-4 (test airplane) Mach 1+ (designed for Mach 3, but program halted)
- Supermarine Scimitar Mach 1.09
- Tupolev Tu-160 Mach 1.9
- Tupolev Tu-22 Mach 1.5
- Tupolev Tu-28 Mach 1.8
- Tupolev Tu-98 Mach 1.14
- Vought F-8 Crusader Mach 1.8
- Yakovlev Yak-27 Mach 1.18
- Yakovlev Yak-28 Mach 1.13
- Yakovlev Yak-38 Mach 1.2
- Yakovlev Yak-41/141 Mach 1.65
Airplanes that have reached at least Mach 2 in level flight
- Aerospatiale/BAe Concorde Mach 2.2
- BAe EAP Mach 2+
- Bell X-1A Mach 2.5
- Bell X-1E Mach 2.3
- Convair B-58 Hustler Mach 2.1
- Convair F-106 Delta Dart Mach 2.3
- Dassault Mirage 2000 Mach 2.2
- Dassault Mirage 4000 Mach 2.2
- Dassault Mirage F1 Mach 2.2
- Dassault Mirage F2 Mach 2.15
- Dassault Mirage G Mach 2.3
- Dassault Mirage III Mach 2.2
- Dassault Mirage IV Mach 2.2
- Dassault Mirage V Mach 2.2
- Dassault Rafale Mach 2+
- Douglas D-558 II Skyrocket Mach 2
- English Electric Lightning Mach 2.3
- General Dynamics F-111 Mach 2.2
- General Dynamics F-16 Mach 2.05 (Mach 1.6?)
- General Dynamics FB-111 Mach 2.2
- General Dynamics/Grumman EF-111 Raven Mach 2.03
- Grumman F-14 Tomcat Mach 2.34
- Grumman F11F-1F Super Tiger Mach 2
- IAI Kfir Mach 2.2+
- Leduc 022 Mach 2.4
- Lockheed F-104 Starfighter Mach 2.2
- Lockheed YF-22 Lightning II Mach 2.2
- McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle Mach 2.5
- McDonnell F-4 Phantom II Mach 2.17
- MiG E-166/E-152M (test airplane) Mach 2.51
- MiG I-75 (test airplane) Mach 2.25
- MiG E-150 (test airplane) Mach 2.58
- MiG E-152 (test airplane) Mach 2.3
- MiG E-152/2 (test airplane) Mach 2.8
- MiG E-50 (test airplane) Mach 2.3
- MiG E-8 (test airplane) Mach 2.04
- MiG-21 Mach 2 (Mach 2.3?)
- MiG-23 Mach 2.2
- MiG-29 Mach 2.3
- MiG-31 Mach 2.8
- North American A-5 Vigilante Mach 2.1
- North American YF-107 Super Super Sabre Mach 2.11
- Panavia Tornado Mach 2.2
- Republic F-105 Thunderchief Mach 2.1
- SAAB 35 Draken Mach 2
- SAAB 37 Viggen Mach 2
- SAAB JAS-39 Gripen Mach 2+
- Shenyang J-8 Mach 2.04
- Shenyang J-8 II Mach 2.2
- Sukhoi P-1 (test airplane) Mach 2
- Sukhoi PT-8 (test airplane) Mach 2
- Sukhoi Su-1 (test airplane) Mach 2.05
- Sukhoi Su-11 Mach 2.1
- Sukhoi Su-15 Mach 2.1
- Sukhoi Su-27 Mach 2.35
- Sukhoi Su-30 Mach 2.35
- Sukhoi Su-34 Mach 2.35
- Sukhoi Su-35 Mach 2.24
- Sukhoi Su-37 Mach 2+
- Sukhoi Su-9 Mach 2.1
- Sukhoi T-49 (test airplane) Mach 2
- Trident II Mach 2
- Tupolev Tu-144 Mach 2.3
- Tupolev Tu-26/Tu-22M Mach 2
- Vought F8U-3 Crusader
- Xian/Chengdu/CAC J-7 (MiG-21) Mach 2
Airplanes that have reached at least Mach 3 in level flight
- Bell X-2 Mach 3.2 (crash)
- Lockheed A-12 Blackbird "Oxcart" Mach 3.6 fastest air-breathing airplane
- Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3.2+
- Lockheed YF-12 Blackbird Mach 3+
- MiG-25 Mach 3.2
- North American X-15 Mach 6.7 (yli 7200 km/h) fastest airplane
- North American XB-70 Valkyrie Mach 3.08
I can be reached at:
warthog@vmhalme.pp.fi
Vesa Halme
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00920 HELSINKI
FINLAND
Last updated May 24th, 2001
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