Faster than the speeding bullet?

[Jared]

LOS ANGELES (March 28) - Three years after its first test flight ended in an explosion, NASA on Saturday successfully launched an experimental jet that the agency believes reached a record-setting speed of about 5,000 mph.

 

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NASA's B-52 mother ship carries the X-43A, perched atop its booster rocket, lower right  
 
The unpiloted X-43A made an 11-second powered flight, then went through some twists and turns during a six-minute glide before plunging into the Pacific Ocean about 400 miles off the California coast.

``It was fun all the way to Mach 7,'' said Joel Sitz, project manager at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.

 
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[afsoc]

yep certainly looked good though small prototypes are all very well but if NASA dosent get funds for its furture development It wont get very far.

[Smoke2much]

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I disagree.  1 Mach = approx 700 Knots, Mach 5 = approx 3500 knots.  That works out at 58 miles per minute or just on 1 mile per second.  I think the thing will go a very long way in a very short space of time.

Will

[Jared]

lol...Will...glad to see you're still around here, and making very good sense too! ;-)  ;D

[Smoke2much]

Yeah, still about....   At work, Sunday, BOOOORED.

Will

[afsoc]

i didnt mean in distance i ment as a project as a hole!! ie its development. With US government aerospace resources now being focused on the mission to mars and the moon, very little cash is out there for its progress within NASA the main developer of the project, and i cant see any defence resources being re mapped to meet it either, so who knows where the cash is coming from.

[Smoke2much]

I know what you meant mate, I was just trying to be funny.  Laughing with you, not at you