NASA Scramjet Sets a New Air-Speed Record
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NPR.org, November 17, 2004 Â· A NASA research jet sets a new air speed record for air-breathing engines by traveling nearly 7,000 mph, or 10 times the speed of sound.
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A HYPERSONIC jet fuelled by Australian technology has smashed the world speed record reaching 10 times the speed of sound at 11,265km/h.
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NASA is hoping to break new speed records later today when it will set loose its third X-43A &quot;scramjet&#39;&#39; over the Pacific Ocean.
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LOS ANGELES NASA will try again today to fly an unmanned hypersonic jet designed to reach a record speed of Mach Ten, or seven-thousand-miles-per-hour.
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LOS ANGELES: Nasa delayed a planned flight of an unmanned hypersonic jet designed to reach a record speed of Mach 10, 11,263 kilometre per hour.
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They call it a &quot;scramjet,&quot; an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, DC, in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker.
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With a defiant streak across the sky, the fastest plane in the world broke its own speed record before plunging into the sea for the last time.
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NASA plans to try to set a world speed record for jets with the flight of a pilotless vehicle that culminates a decades-long research program into hypersonic flight.
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A sleek NASA X-43A aircraft set a world speed record Tuesday, flying at more than 6,600 mph in a test flight that eventually could revolutionize air travel and space exploration.
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The US space agency flies its X-43A hypersonic jet to a speed in excess of nine times the speed of sound.
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NASA on Tuesday successfully conducted the final and fastest test flight of an unmanned experimental jet, at a record nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or 11,260 km per hour, it is reported.
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An unmanned NASA jet was launched over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday in a bid to demonstrate a radical new engine technology by flying at a world-record 7,000 mph - almost 10 times the speed of sound.
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Engineers for the space agency's experimental X-43A project prepare to break the aircraft speed record. But the hypersonic jet flight could be NASA's last. By Amit Asaravala.
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Dirak writes &quot;NASA intends to break its own aircraft-speed record for the second time this year by flying X43a scramjet ten times faster than sound.
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NASA on Monday will attempt to set an air speed record when it launches its pilot-less X-43A &quot;scramjet.&quot;. Paul Allen was first.
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An IBM supercomputer still under development has set an unofficial new world speed record during testing, the company announced on Wednesday.
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, United States : A US hypersonic experimental scramjet, the X-43A, clocked up a test flight at a world record speed 10 times faster than sound, NASA said.