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Mach 5.1 X-51 Waverider ‘Hypersonic Scramjet’ Has a Message for the Air Force
Boeing’s X-51A “Waverider” was a hypersonic tech demonstrator built with AFRL, DARPA, and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to ...
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The Mach 5 X-51 Waverider ‘Scramjet’ Has a Message for Russia and China
Key Points and Summary – The X-51 Waverider’s 2013 flight—air-launched from a B-52 and accelerating to Mach 5.1—remains the longest air-breathing hypersonic run on record and a pivot point for U.S.
An X-51A Waverider flight-test vehicle successfully made the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight May 26 off the southern California Pacific coast. An X-51A Waverider ...
An experimental aircraft has set a new record for thelongest hypersonic flight after streaking across the sky Wednesday for morethan three minutes while flying at Mach 5 ? five times the speed of ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The first hypersonic X-51scramjet powered long-duration flights to give the Pentagon a new ...
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