Going hypersonic with the X-51A Waverider

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Going hypersonic with the X-51A Waverider

Post by Viv » Mon May 24, 2010 11:36 pm

On Tuesday this week (26th of May) the scram jet will get another test flight, Cnet has a nice little article with pictures thats worth a look

http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10003 ... ?tag=mncol

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Re: Going hypersonic with the X-51A Waverider

Post by Viv » Tue May 25, 2010 6:52 pm

By way of an update, todays test was scrubbed due to a tanker ship sailing in to the splash done area in the Pacific

Wired article link http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/05 ... y-to-race/

YouTube link to Airforce video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_9avKf9 ... r_embedded

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Re: Going hypersonic with the X-51A Waverider

Post by Viv » Thu May 27, 2010 2:24 pm

A successful flight at last a vindication of jp8 as a fuel, lots of analysis to do yet and more news to come after but here is the first few articles to cover the flight

Cnet http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_3-20006 ... 7-1_3-0-20

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZUwKX3_ ... r_embedded

The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/27/x51_first_shot/

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