NASA completes test flight of super-fast jet
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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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NASA on Friday retired the B-52B jet that served as the "mothership" for a half-century of flight research projects ranging from the X-15 rocket planes of the 1960s to the X-43A hypersonic jet that flew at nearly 10 times the speed of sound last month.
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The biggest airliner ever built completed its first commercial flight Thursday when the Singapore Airlines-owned Airbus A380 superjumbo landed in Sydney.
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NASA officials on Monday postponed for a day the launch of an unmanned experimental jet that would have attempted to shoot out across the Pacific Ocean at a record speed of more than 7,000 mph after an apparent glitch with its electronics systems.
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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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An unmanned NASA jet that set a speed record of almost 7,000 miles per hour was built by a Tennessee company. The 12-foot-long X-43-A supersonic combustion ramjet, or Scramjet, flew on its
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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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NASA, on Monday, reported its plans to delay the launch of its recently created super fast jet or &quot;scramjet&quot; that is expected to reach high speeds of 7,000 mph in a matter of few minutes.
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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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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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Description: The scramjet is a new plane that can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. NASA conducted a successful test-flight Tuesday.
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A tiny unmanned Nasa &quot;scramjet&quot; set a new world speed record after flying at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. The 12ft supersonic combustion ramjet flew at just under 7,000mph - or around Mach 9.6.
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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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Nasa engineers are making a second bid today to launch an unmanned hypersonic jet designed to reach a record speed of Mach 10, or 7,000mph.
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NASA will test its latest jet-powered aircraft for the final time next week, aiming to set a world record by flying at 10 times the speed of sound.
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NASA unveils its newest supercomputer today during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the agency&#39;s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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An experimental NASA jet has flown at just under 10 times the speed of sound, a record that is a step forward for the plane and its experimental scramjet engine.