The history of military aviation is, in a few ways, a story of pushing speed to its limits.

Other than spacecraft, aircraft are the fastest vehicles, leaving cars and bikes for dust. We take a look at the ten fastest planes ever flown. Though some uncrewed aircraft (like the X-43) have flown ...

A Cessna 172 can typically cruise at around 140 mph (225 kph). Most commercial airliners fly fast enough at altitude that speed is measured in how close the aircraft's speed is to the speed of sound.

Image Credit: William Pretrina - P-38 Lighting, CC BY-SA 2.0/Wiki Commons. When you think about World War II, you probably picture tanks crawling through Europe or ships battling it out in the Pacific ...