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7000MPH!?!?!?!

Postby ozzy72 » Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:17 am

This thing is nearly as fast as me on a motorbike :o :o :o

If clear skies break over southern California on Monday, a B-52 bomber will take off from Edwards air force base and head out over the Pacific.
Slung beneath its right wing will be an experimental pilotless plane designed to break records by flying at 10 times the speed of sound.
The 3.5-metre-long (12ft) prototype, known to Nasa as the X-43A, will hitch a ride on the bomber to 12,000 metres (40,000ft) before an on-board rocket takes over, boosting it to 34,000 metres. The rocket will then fall away, leaving the plane free to fly - powered by a revolutionary engine, the scramjet.
Shortly after 9.30pm GMT, the X-43A will accelerate, if all goes smoothly, to 7,000mph, before its engine switches off and it descends to plunge into the ocean some 850 miles from shore.
The test flight is the culmination of an eight-year, $250m (
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Re: 7000MPH!?!?!?!

Postby Hagar » Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:28 am

If clear skies break over southern California on Monday, a B-52 bomber will take off from Edwards air force base and head out over the Pacific.
Slung beneath its right wing will be an experimental pilotless plane designed to break records by flying at 10 times the speed of sound.

The report is undated. Is this new or the same test flight that proved successful some months ago? Like most of these projects it might be fine for a military application. Despite all the publicity & claims to the contrary I see no practical civil use for it. ::)
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Re: 7000MPH!?!?!?!

Postby Fozzer » Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:35 am

.... Like most of these projects it might be fine for a military application. Despite all the publicity & claims to the contrary I see no practical civil use for it. ::)


...unless you want your eye-balls permantly re-located to the back of your skull.... ::)...!

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Re: 7000MPH!?!?!?!

Postby ozzy72 » Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:54 am

This report came out today in the Guardian Online...
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Re: 7000MPH!?!?!?!

Postby SideWinder9 » Sat Nov 13, 2004 10:46 am

Well, if there are cruise ships on the pacific, they will hear quite a sonic boom.... 8) 8) 8)
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Re: 7000MPH!?!?!?!

Postby Tequila Sunrise » Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:34 am

... or 10......  ;D

that engine dosn't sond too different from a RAM-jet or have I missed something  ::)

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Re: 7000MPH!?!?!?!

Postby C » Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:22 pm

This report came out today in the Guardian Online...


Explains a lot...
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Re: 7000MPH!?!?!?!

Postby Deputy » Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:06 pm

3 Words - Damn thats fast.
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Re: 7000MPH!?!?!?!

Postby Skligmund » Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:22 am

Thats exactly (almost) what it is. it is actually a SCRAMjet. Go ahead and look up scramjet, neat.

here is the NASA link, they fly it on the 15th.

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.html

The X-43A
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