An experimental cruise aircraft potentially capable of Mach 7 (5,371 mph) is expected to fly next summer as part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing ...
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 air-breathing engine could fly at nearly ten times the speed of sound. -It ...
SAN ANTONIO – FLYING AT MACH 7? “You could have dinner in New York and be back home in time for the 10 o’clock news, in less time than it takes you to go across town on 1604,” said Chris Combs, ...
NEW DELHI — Indo-Russian consortium BrahMos Aerospace has plans to develop a Mach 7 hypersonic missile, the BrahMos 2. “We have established a lead in supersonic missiles,” says Praveen Pathak, general ...
Solution chosen by NASA and US DoD over rocket-based propulsion will power hypersonic demonstrator in 2011 NASA and the US Department of Defense have selected a turbine-based combined-cycle engine for ...
They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker. So fast it could put satellites ...
Key Points and Summary - NASA Planned a Mach 15 X-43D. It Never Flew — and That Matters Now. -NASA’s X-43A proved that an air-breathing scramjet could fly at hypersonic speeds, reaching Mach 7 and ...