NASA's X-43A Vehicle Ready for Flight

Aielman writes "NASA has set March 27 as the date for testing the X-43A vehicle over a Navy range in the Pacific. It will be testing a non-rocket air breathing scramjet engine at approximately 5,000 mph. This is the second attempt, the first ending in intentional destruction due to course deviations shortly after launch."

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Re:Faster than a speeding bullet

[istartedi]

I could cut that commute by 34 minutes and 54 seconds

If you accelerated to 5000 mph in 3 seconds and then decelerated back to zero in the same ammount of time, you'd cut a lot of other things too... like internal organs and appendages.