EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE — NASA’s supersonic surfboard, the unmanned X-43A aircraft, streaked into history Tuesday, setting an unofficial world speed record for jet aircraft of Mach 9.6, or about 6,500 ...
An 18-hour commercial flight is enough to make anyone squirm. But don’t expect near-term aerospace tech to save you from long hours in that dreaded middle seat. That’s because the scramjet engine ...
This is seriously cool. American aerospace company Orbital ATK has tested a 3D-printed hypersonic engine combustor, one that could supposedly be used in a high-speed plane known as a scramjet. The ...
NASA's X-43A research vehicle screamed into the record books again Tuesday, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. Preliminary data from the ...
The HACM (Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile) is becoming a "game-changing weapon" for the US Air Force, with its terrifying ...
A small group of Australian scientists made aviation history July 30 with the successful atmospheric test of a supersonic air-breathing engine in flight. Working with a budget most big science ...
India has taken a major step in defence technology after DRDO successfully tested a full-scale scramjet engine in Hyderabad, running it for over 12 minutes at hypersonic conditions. This proves the ...
Will DeVerter, a graduate research assistant in the Purdue Applied Research Institute’s Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center (HAMTC), prepares his team’s 3D printed scramjet for ...