NASA aims to set record with X-43A

Valley Press ^ | March 25, 2004 | ALLISON GATLIN

[BenLurkin]

X-43 ping

[GeronL]

Finally, the X-43A will splash down in the Pacific, some 450 miles offshore. Neither it nor the Pegasus rocket booster are intended to be retrieved

Anyone gotta boat?

[NormsRevenge]

Hyper-X

[BenLurkin]

Maybe scuba down and get that cool air/space/craft? Put it on ebay?

[scott7278]

Can we launch X-42 instead?

[NormsRevenge]

It would make a nice addition to any serious collector's spacecraft collection.

;-)

[BenLurkin]

"To the moon, Alice . ."

[scott7278]

 

[BenLurkin]

You know, at first I went to Google to pull information on the NASA X-42 (there was one, IIRC) and as I was doing that I finally caught your drift . . .LOL!

[scott7278]

It didn't take you very long...I knew you caught it when I saw your posted pic!

[concentric circles]

The first test vehicle, B-52 with Pegasus and X-43A.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Once free of its booster, the X-43A scramjet will ignite and run for approximately 10 seconds.

"Ten seconds of data will tell you whether or not six years of trying was worth it,"


Man, I hope their not using Windows!

[Carry_Okie]

Funny, in many ways it resembles an X-15.

[Centurion2000]

If successful, its engine will be the first air breather to operate at Mach 7, seven times the speed of sound.

If successful, its engine will be the first publicly acknowledged air breather to operate at Mach 7, seven times the speed of sound.

Had to fix that :)

[concentric circles]

Speed; raging, out of this world speed.

[Delta 21]

X-15 pilots were my heros when I was a kid.

[concentric circles]

Pete Knight serves in the state Senate hereabouts. You may have read that when he established the airspeed record he was really pushing the limits of the aircraft and peeled the skin right off the leading edge of the tail.

[Carry_Okie]

Thank you. That was one beautiful aircraft.
It brings back fond memories.

[So Cal Rocket]

Shhhhhhhhh!!!