This extremely rare and unique aircraft is called the D-558-1 Skystreak. Designed as a research aircraft to test alternative engine and design configurations near the speed of sound, it is one of only two that exist in the world. Just two months before Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the X-1, the Skystreak was the fastest aircraft in the world, setting a speed record of a blazing 641 mph!
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