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Mach 9.6 X-43A ‘Hypersonic Scramjet’ Has a Message for Any Military on Earth
A, an unmanned scramjet testbed, set the world record for an air-breathing aircraft by hitting Mach 9.6 in 2004. -Launched ...
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The Mach 9.6 X-43A ‘Hypersonic Scramjet’ Has a Message for the U.S. Air Force
Key Points and Summary – NASA’s X-43A wasn’t a paper study—it was a 12-foot, hydrogen-fueled experimental jet that proved an ...
NASA's experimental X-43A didn't have a pilot and couldn't fly independently, but its blisteringly high speeds showed that hypersonic flight was possible.
The payoff for reaching air-breathing hypersonic flight—five times the speed of sound, without rockets—would be revolutionary. A hypersonic airliner could carry passengers to any place on Earth within ...
LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Boeing X-51A Waverider demonstrator successfully achieved sustained, scramjet-powered, air-breathing hypersonic flight above Mach 5 in its ...
The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional.
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