Key Points and Summary - NASA’s X-43A wasn’t a paper study—it was a 12-foot, hydrogen-fueled experimental jet that proved an air-breathing engine could fly at nearly ten times the speed of sound. -It ...

SAN ANTONIO – FLYING AT MACH 7? “You could have dinner in New York and be back home in time for the 10 o’clock news, in less time than it takes you to go across town on 1604,” said Chris Combs, ...

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 3 /PRNewswire/ — Mach 7 Technologies (M7T), a global provider of flexible, PACS-neutral healthcare image management solutions, has added three new utility tools to its flagship ...

Key Point: This experimental rocket plane was crazy fast. Here is how it nearly hit Mach 7. The date was October 3rd, 1967. U.S. Air Force test pilot William Knight was flying North American ...

Electric vehicles sure have come a long way. Forget about the Toyota Prius or Honda Insight (an excellent car, by the way), Ford's new all-electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 is a different animal. Sure, ...

They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker. So fast it could put satellites ...

NEW DELHI — Indo-Russian consortium BrahMos Aerospace has plans to develop a Mach 7 hypersonic missile, the BrahMos 2. “We have established a lead in supersonic missiles,” says Praveen Pathak, general ...

Shattering previous air-breathing speed records, NASA’s Hyper-X program has successfully tested the first airframe-integrated scramjet engine. Firing for around 15 seconds, the X-43A travelled over 15 ...

Solution chosen by NASA and US DoD over rocket-based propulsion will power hypersonic demonstrator in 2011 NASA and the US Department of Defense have selected a turbine-based combined-cycle engine for ...

Key Points and Summary - NASA Planned a Mach 15 X-43D. It Never Flew — and That Matters Now. -NASA’s X-43A proved that an air-breathing scramjet could fly at hypersonic speeds, reaching Mach 7 and ...