Not just a beautiful Lego Star Wars craft, this is a beautiful picture as well of the noble Y-wing bomber fighter that made its first appearance in Episode IV A New Hope during the Death Star trench run. Coupled with X-wing fighter support, the Y-wings were to make the first bombing run to knock out the main reactor. This Lego set is well crafted and very similar to the real deal, with the Y-Wing Ultimate Collectors Set being the only thing possibly better.
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Raw speed has nothing to do with G-force.
The shuttle does 17000mph and the men who went to the moon did nearly 25000mph.
The fastest flying jet 'fighter' is the Mig 31. Its Russian and was designed to be a high level interceptor to counter the SR-71.
Its capable of Mach 2.8 (about 2000mph) but if it overruns the engines (pushes them beyond their design limits it will hit mach 3.2. The engines will be have to be replaced because the parts will melt together due to the enormous heat.
The SR-71 was the limit of what a jet powered aircraft could ever fly at. It routinely did mach 3.2 and was rumoured to have an absolut limit of mach 4+ but its all still highly classified. Its engines were unique because they were 2 types of engines in one case. Powerful turbojets for takeoff and speeds below mach 1.5 and a ramjet (which requires high speeds to work).
It wasnt a fighter though, it was good for ultra high speed straight line runs for recce sorties.
No aircraft, jet powered or otherwise cannot fly even close to 10000mph. There is no metal suitable for aircraft construction that will withstand the huge temperatures generated at that speed.
To put it into context, Concorde (mach 2 – 1400mph) was polished smooth before every flight to minimize the drag and lower temperatures.
The SR-71 was made out of titanium, and had to be designed to expand nearly 1ft in all dimensions due to heat. It leaked on the ground until it went fast enough to seal all the gaps. And that only did 2500mph.
The fastest manned aircraft in the world is the X-15 rocket plane. It did mach 6.85 (4520mph) but that was basically in space to minimise drag and heat. Most of the pilots that flew it were awarded astronaut wings because they went so high, upto 260000ft. It was air launched from the wing of a modded B52.
The fastest ever vehicle that flew in the atmosphere was the X43A scramjet. It did Mach 9 (6600mph) and was unmanned.
The G-force experienced by the pilots in all the above aircraft is no more then 5g and thats in a break turn. Thats half the limit of the Typhoon or Raptor and they are normal fighters.
You would typically experience 3-4g in acceleration in the fastest aircraft like the Sr-71.
In short, nothing flying will do more then mach 3 unless its rocket powered and human beings can survive ANY amount of g-force. But as the G goes up the time exposed has to come down. A man did rocket sled tests and survived 40g decelleraration.
Ejector seats on fighters have more g-force then and acceleration of an aircraft.
Its perfectly possible to survive flying at 10000mph, you just have to build the aircraft to withstand the temperatures and give it powerful enough engines that burn for long enough.