Jan 5, 2024 · At nearly 5,000 mph, the March flight easily broke the previous world speed record for a jet-powered (air breathing) vehicle. The X-43A research vehicle was boosted to 95,000 feet for a brief preprogrammed engine burn at nearly Mach 7, or seven times the speed of sound.

Mar 7, 2016 · Four decades of supersonic-combustion ramjet propulsion research culminated in a successful flight of the X-43A hypersonic technology demonstrator in March 2004, the first time a scramjet-powered aircraft had flown freely.

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Jun 5, 2013 · The scramjet advantage is once it is accelerated to about Mach 4 by a conventional jet engine or booster rocket, it can fly at hypersonic speeds, possibly as fast as Mach 15, without carrying heavy oxygen tanks, as rockets must.

Mar 23, 2008 · NASA's X-43A research vehicle has screamed into the record books, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of sound on November 16, 2004. Preliminary data from the scramjet-powered research vehicle show its revolutionary engine worked successfully at approximately Mach 10, nearly 7000 mph.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 1 Overview With Results and Lessons Learned of the X-43A Mach 10 Flight Laurie A. Marshall,* Catherine Bahm,† and Griffin P. Corpening‡ NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, 93523-0273, USA

Jun 5, 2013 · The scramjet concept is simple: Accelerate the vehicle to about Mach 4 by a conventional jet engine, then start the scramjet engine (which has few or no moving parts) by introducing fuel and mixing it with oxygen obtained from the air and compressed for combustion.

Jun 5, 2013 · The new world speed record for a jet-powered aircraft, set by NASA in November, has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records. The accomplishment, the third and final flight in the experimental X-43A project, demonstrated that an advanced form of air-breathing (jet) engine could power an aircraft at nearly 10 times the speed of sound.

– Results of the arc jet tests performed on ship 3 C-C test samples showed ablation of the C-C nose leading edges at heating conditions and durations more severe than final Mach 10 trajectory. – Machined a new leading edge incorporating a larger leading edge radius and altering the upper OML of the nose so as to not change the

airplane. The jet engine replaced the piston engine, and revolutionized the airliner, taking it routinely above the weather and beyond the seas. Modern rockets opened the space age for the bold and wealthy. In the 21st century, revolutionary applications of airbreathing propulsion will make space travel routine and interconti-