News tagged with hypersonic jet
USAF vehicle breaks record for hypersonic flight
An experimental aircraft has set a record for hypersonic flight, flying more than 3 minutes at Mach 6 - six times the speed of sound.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 27, 2010 |
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Faster Than The Speed Of Sound: New Control System Has What It Takes To Guide Experimental Aircraft
(PhysOrg.com) -- When a jet is flying faster than the speed of sound, one small mistake can tear it apart. And when the jet is so experimental that it must fly unmanned, only a computer control system can ...
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Contact lost with hypersonic glider after launch (Update)
An unmanned hypersonic glider developed for U.S. defense research into super-fast global strike capability was launched atop a rocket early Thursday but contact was lost after the experimental craft began ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Expert's reentry flap endures hot baptism
(PhysOrg.com) -- A spacecraft control flap designed for the super-heated hypersonic fall through Earth’s atmosphere has come through testing in the world’s largest plasma wind tunnel to be ready ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 30, 2011 |
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New rocketplane 'could fly Paris-Tokyo in 2.5 hours'
European aerospace giant EADS on Sunday unveiled its "Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation" (Zehst) rocket plane it hopes will be able to fly from Paris to Tokyo in 2.5 hours by around 2050.
Jun 19, 2011 |
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The brotherhood of speed
About fifty miles northeast of Los Angeles, the small town of Rosamond slumbers on the edge of the Great American Desert. Here the air is thin and cold, and in the distance the smog in the LA basin is an orange-tinted ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 01, 2011 |
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JAXA makes advances in development of high-speed commercial aircraft
Japan is making progress toward developing an advanced supersonic passenger aircraft that could, for example, make a day trip between Japan and Hawaii possible.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 11, 2010 |
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Air Force to launch robotic winged space plane
(AP) -- After a decade of development, the Air Force this month plans to launch a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide home to a California runway.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 03, 2010 |
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'Lighting a match in a tornado' is one of multiple feats for propulsion center
When Walter O'Brien was a young boy, he recalls a moment of complete exhilaration when he was able to design and build a balsa wood airplane model that actually flew from his parents' front porch, across the ...
Mar 31, 2010 |
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New materials designed to deal with hypersonic and supersonic hot stuff (w/ Video)
University of Queensland researchers are testing new materials to withstand the extreme heat experienced by hypersonic vehicles in flight so they can fly for substantially longer.
Dec 24, 2009 |
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Avoiding wind tunnels, computer simulations pave way for hypersonic flight
A two-hour plane flight between Tokyo and New York sounds like science fiction, but methods developed by Princeton engineers to describe turbulence at extreme conditions may aid the design of aircraft with that kind of speed, ...
Apr 10, 2008 |
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Blackstar A False Messiah From Groom Lake
Many Space Cadets have gone gaga over the report in Aviation Week that the US military has developed a secret reusable spaceplane. It seemingly confirms a long-standing fantasy in the space community. For years a lot of ...
Mar 20, 2006 |
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