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Test of scramjet-powered X-51A engine

submitted by vaporlock

1 decade 4 years 5 months 2 weeks ago

"Boeing and the US Air Force tested a supersonic combustion ramjet engine on May 26 with the longest hypersonic flight in history. The X-51A WaveRider was dropped from a B-52 and flew for nearly three and a half minutes, flying at five times the speed of sound – Mach 5. The unmanned aerial vehicle was tested off the southern California coast around 10 a.m. on May 26, and it flew autonomously for more than 200 seconds, but then something then occurred that caused the vehicle to lose acceleration. But the teams who worked on the project are still calling the test a success."

from:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Cool-Astronomy/2010/0527/Test-of-scramjet-powered-X-51A-engine-VIDEO

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Air Force news video on an upcoming test of the Mach 6 X-51 WaveRider.

*wings. and *spacy

Adding video to channels (Spacy, Wings) - requested by kulpims.

geekgasm and aeroporn all in one!

Moving this video to vaporlock's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*beg

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter vaporlock.

"‘We equate this leap in engine technology as equivalent to the post-World War II jump from propeller-driven aircraft to jet engines,’ Mr Brink said.

A passenger plane traveling at Mach 6 would cut the flight time from London to Sydney to little more than two hours.

Dr Andrew Coates, of the Mullard Space Science Lab at University College London, said the effects for passengers aboard a scramjet-powered plane would be 'more akin to space travel than airline travel'.

They would need protective clothing to counteract the effects of the G-forces pressing on the body during acceleration to 5,000mph."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1283078/Experimental-scramjet-hits-Mach-6.html

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