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 ...

Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).