Could The SR-72 Actually Reach Mach 10?: Sometimes art imitates life, or vice versa. The beginning of Top Gun: Maverick is arguably the film's best scene. We see Tom Cruise’s character walk ...

Early in the film, which has become 2022’s highest grossing, Tom Cruise’s character pilots the Darkstar in an attempt to hit Mach 10 speeds ... is a hypersonic UAV concept designed for ...

As Lockheed Martin’s Mach 6.0 Blackbird 2.0 ... Although Lockheed Martin officially proposed the new SR-72 concept in 2013, unconfirmed reports about the Darkstar emerged as early as 2007.

Related: The SR-72 Darkstar: Is America's Spy Plane ... concept jets to ever come out of Hollywood? While Lockheed's Skunk Works division did help "Top Gun: Maverick" bring the Mach 10 Darkstar ...

The difference is that while the SR-71 had a top speed of Mach 3.3 (or 2,193 miles per hour), the movie’s SR-72 is firmly in hypersonic territory, reaching Mach 10, or 7,672 miles per hour.

pushing it to reach a speed of Mach 10. Production designer Jeremy Hindle worked closely with concept designer Daniel Simon to come up with a mockup of the aircraft that he says was “authentic ...

A speed of at least Mach 10 is just one of the features of ... that will hopefully be able to put to life the concept of a space plane that can be reused, allowing satellites to be launched ...