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  • NASA target: Mach 10

    11/11/2004 3:43:17 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 17 replies · 596+ views
    Valley Press ^ | on Thursday, November 11, 2004. | ALLISON GATLIN
    EDWARDS AFB - Already holding the world speed record for an air-breathing engine, NASA's X-43A hypersonic research aircraft will aim to top itself with a flight to nearly 10 times the speed of sound next week. The unmanned aircraft's record-setting March flight to Mach 7 - about 5,000 mph - was the first flight test of a supersonic combustion ramjet - or scramjet - engine integrated with an airframe. "We set one (world record) in March, and we're going to do it again next week," said Vince Rauch, Hyper-X program manager at NASA's Langley Flight Research Center in Virginia. The...