NASA &#39;Scramjet&#39; Travels Almost 7,000 Mph
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LOS ANGELES Nov 17, 2004 - An unmanned NASA jet screamed into the record books high over the Pacific Ocean by reaching speeds of almost 7,000 mph, brightening hopes that humans might one day be able to fly across a continent in minutes instead of hours.
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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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NASA will attempt to break the aircraft speed record next week by flying a jet plane at 7,000 mph, or nearly 10 times the speed of sound, say planners for the agency&#39;s experimental X-43A project.
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LOS ANGELES An unmanned NASA jet that set a speed record of almost seven-thousand miles per hour was built by a Tennessee company.
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE - NASA&#39;s unpiloted jet briefly reached more than nine times the speed of sound in a test flight on Tuesday.
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NASA&#39;s X-43A scramjet programme successfully smashed its own world speed record for aircraft by flying at nearly 10 times the speed of sound.
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In March, NASA launched an experimental jet that reached a record-setting speed of about 5,000 mph. Now researchers want to leave that milestone in the dust.
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The phenomenon, known as frame-dragging, is quite small, amounting to 6 feet in the distance that satellites, moving at about 18,000 miles per hour, cover in their orbits in a year, but it is within the ability of NASA&#39;s instruments to detect.
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TRANSATLANTIC travellers could be in the US in minutes rather than hours after a supersonic jet screamed into the record books. The unmanned NASA jet reached speeds of almost 7,000 mph
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Nasa is due to launch an experimental jet over the Pacific today in a bid to reach a record 7,000 mph. The first X-43A flight failed in June 2001 when the booster rocket used to accelerate it to flight speed veered off course and had to be destroyed.
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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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The future of hypersonic flight is uncertain, but next week a tiny unmanned NASA jet will try to hurtle into that unknown on a one-way trip at 10 times the speed of sound.
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Inside a physics lab at the University of Dayton Research Institute BBs are fired at 20,500 mph at spaceships. Sort of. The goal is to test the mettle of the composite fabric or aluminum skins on orbit-bound spacecraft.
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WASHINGTON: NASA will today conduct the final and fastest test flight of its pilotless X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, aiming to send it zooming across the Pacific Ocean at about 10 times the speed of sound -- almost 3.2 kilometers (two miles) per
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By staff writers and wires. NASA says it has broken the world speed record for powered flight with an experimental jet that has just flown at 10 times the speed of sound.
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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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A small, air-breathing test plane will attempt to blaze into history on Monday by flying at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. The hypersonic craft is one of three built by NASA for its $230-million Hyper-X project, established in 1996.