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The USA now has an experimental jet plane that has flown Mach-7, or about seven times faster than a .22 cal bullet. This plane is twice as fast as the fastest commercially-available, high-powered, center-fire, rifle bullet.
NASA will attempt to take this pilotless plane to Mach-10, or roughly 7,000 mph at sea level. They anticipate that the wings will reach 2,000 degrees Celsius, which I think is hot enough to melt most metals and rocks. Mach-10 is roughly 11,000 fps, better than two miles per second, or about 3 minutes flight-time from Sacramento to Los Angeles.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&u=/afp/20041115/ts_alt_afp/us_space_air_041115002018&printer=1
NASA will attempt to take this pilotless plane to Mach-10, or roughly 7,000 mph at sea level. They anticipate that the wings will reach 2,000 degrees Celsius, which I think is hot enough to melt most metals and rocks. Mach-10 is roughly 11,000 fps, better than two miles per second, or about 3 minutes flight-time from Sacramento to Los Angeles.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&u=/afp/20041115/ts_alt_afp/us_space_air_041115002018&printer=1