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NASA’s X-43A flew at Mach 9.6 and 110,000 feet: No air-breathing aircraft has gone faster in the 22 years since that flight

NASA's X-43A scramjet aircraft hit Mach 9.64 at 110,000 feet in November 2004—and that record for an air-breathing aircraft still stands more than two decades later. Despite all the talk about America ...
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NASA’s first X-43A crashed into the Pacific in 2001 — the two that followed set hypersonic records no aircraft has beaten in 22 years

In the early 2000s, NASA was among the first to achieve sustained hypersonic flight. As part of the broader Hyper-X program, NASA developed the X-43, a small, unmanned research aircraft powered by an ...
SlashGear

X43A: The Futuristic Scramjet-Powered Aircraft That Set New Records

Going really fast has always been one of the major goals of air-breathing aircraft ("air-breathing" meaning that it's not powered by a rocket, and relies on air for fuel combustion) development since ...
SpaceNews

Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: Guinness Recognizes NASA Scramjet

NASA has been officially recognized for setting the speed record for a jet-powered aircraft by Guinness World Records. NASA set the record in November during the third and final flight of the ...
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NASA's Mach 9.6 X-43A 'Hypersonic Scramjet' Is Still An Engineering Marvel

Just a couple of decades ago, aviation had some rules. If you wanted to fly fast within the atmosphere, you used a jet engine. The champion here was the SR-71 Blackbird, designed by Lockheed Martin, ...
NextBigFuture

Nasa taking fresh look at MHD ramjet/scramjet technology

Scramjet from Popular Science. The first true reusable, free-flying scramjet could be Darpa's HTV-3X. It is also known as Blackswift. The HTV-3x could make its inaugural flight as early as 2012.
Science Daily

Scramjet Works: NASA's X-43A Flight Results In Treasure Trove Of Data

NASA's successful X-43A hypersonic research aircraft flight resulted in a treasure trove of scramjet data. The initial data review, conducted on March 31, confirmed high-fidelity flight data was ...
The Washington Post

With 'Scramjet,' NASA Shoots for Mach 10

HAMPTON, Va. -- 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 ...
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NASA’s X-43A Scramjet Breaks Speed Record

NASA’s X-43A research vehicle screamed into the record books today, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. Preliminary data from the scramjet-powered ...
SFGate

NASA pioneer aircraft shatters jet speed mark / Scramjet operates more like a plane compared to shuttle

2004-11-17 04:00:00 PDT Kern County-- NASA's supersonic surfboard, the unmanned X-43A aircraft, streaked into history Tuesday, setting an unofficial world speed record for jet aircraft of Mach 9.6, or ...
Science Daily

Faster Than A Speeding Bullet: Guinness Recognizes NASA Scramjet

NASA has been officially recognized for setting the speed record for a jet-powered aircraft by Guinness World Records. NASA set the record in November during the third and final flight of the ...