NASA &#39;scramjet&#39; makes historic flight off California
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LOS ANGELES NASA&#39;s unmanned &quot;scramjet&quot; proved it&#39;s small but it&#39;s fast -- in a record-breaking demonstration above the Pacific Ocean.
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World News &gt; Washington, Nov 17 : NASA&#39;s hypersonic experimental scramjet X-43A has broken the aircraft speed record by clocking 7000 miles per hour which is nearly 10 times the speed of sound.
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HOUSTON Oct 29, 2004 - The NASA turbojet notoriously known as the &quot;vomit comet&quot; for its use in training astronauts for weightlessness made its final flight Friday.
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SPRINT TO RECORD: A NASA-backed supersonic combustion ramjet &#151; or scramjet &#151; flew on its on power for 10 seconds, setting a world speed record for an air-breathing engine.
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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.
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Summary - (Nov 17, 2004) The X-43A scramjet broke its own world record for air breathing engines on Tuesday, when it traveled at nearly 10 times the speed of sound.
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THE year is 2007. A five-seater spacecraft powers away from an aeroplane &quot;mother ship&quot; ten miles above the Mojave Desert in the United States and shoots into the stratosphere.
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In this photo released by NASA, the X-43A &quot;scramjet&quot; is seen attached to a modified Pegasus rocket under the wing of a B-52 aircraft before its release off the Southern California coast Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004.
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Decades of research come to a close as NASA&#39;s X-43 test flight goes off without a hitch. HAMPTON -- It was more than a record-breaking event Tuesday when an experimental airplane called the X-43A streaked
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NASA engineers and researchers are gearing up to end a research program with a world-record flight approaching 7,000 mph. If weather permits, a wedge-shape X-43 unmanned craft will make the final
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne landed safely on  Wednesday in the California desert after a wild corkscrew-like  ascent into space, and is now a step closer to a $10 million  prize intended to boost commercial-space travel.
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The record-setting speed by the X-43A experimental scramjet engine on Tuesday marked the final operational mission for NASA&#39;s B-52B test aircraft.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - A privately built rocket plane  and its mother ship lifted off into clear skies above the  Mojave Desert on Monday in a bid to win a $10 million prize for  the first commercially viable manned spacecraft.
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HOUSTON The NASA four-engine turbojet notoriously known as the &quot;vomit comet&quot; for its use in training astronauts for weightlessness made its final flight today.
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MOJAVE, CALIF: Completing the first leg of a quest for a $10 million prize, a test pilot took a privately financed plane past the cusp of space on Wednesday morning in a flight that had equal measures of white-knuckle moments and triumph.
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LOS ANGELES NASA is is hoping to up the ante when it comes to speed. Later today it&#39;ll set loose its third X-43-A &quot;scramjet&quot; over the Pacific Ocean.
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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.