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Mach 10 X43A Flight Successful

Posted by timothy on from the heck-of-a-commute dept.

Sector Bug writes "NASA's X43A research aircraft made its third and final flight today, firing its scramjet engine at Mach 10 (7,000 MPH) or close to it, setting a new record. "

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  1. Post First! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First Post!

  2. Old technology just now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is all old tech. Think of all th toys they dont let us see.

  3. While certainly a great feat... by fakeplasticusername · · Score: 0, Troll

    Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. There is a mystical power of double digits wrt the public.

  4. Hope for the future by spawnofbill · · Score: 1, Troll

    I really hope the aeronautical industry takes advantage of the testing done with the X-43A. Alot of ideas that were scrapped b/c of red tape and underfunding I.E. nuclear powered flight, true supersonic transportation, Pulse Detonation Engines (although the last one is seeing a revival) If applied correctly this could revolutionize the airline industry and make international travel quick and affordable over time.

  5. Re:Speed comparison question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're new here, aren't you?

  6. Re:A loeeson in civics. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    s/loeeson/lesson/, idiot.
    And, yes, that idiot happens to be me. Not the Honda Idiot... I don't drive a Honda. Ah forget it

  7. Imperial = failure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thanks to yet another moronic attempt of mixing imprerial measurement into metric projects, the next X43A test (or whatever it will be called) is going to be a spatacular failure! If this keeps up, the Chinese will have better chance to make a working X43 than these 'too dumb to learn and/or use metric units' Yankees ever will.

  8. This is USA trying to control rest world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    USA plans to use this technology to make planes that move to fastly and high for missiles to hit and to plunder oil from irak and other nations. I wonder if it will be so easy for USA to try and control us when China and Russia develops simmilar technologies :) maybe PRC/Russia will liberate rest of world from USA tyrrany :)

  9. GOATSE LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuuuck...

  10. Re:Rocket/scramjet/rocket??? by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes. You get going to (they project) mach 15 without having to use any oxydizer, which is really heavy. The rocket engine that you need at that point to get into orbit is quite small.

    The benefit of launching from any kind of plane is really big. Even dropping a Pegasus rocket from an L-1011 is enough of a performance boost in both speed and altitude that it makes sense for them to do it.

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