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X-43A Goes 7,000 MPH - Getting Ready for Mach 10

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http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.html
X-43A Raises the Bar to Mach 9.6
Guinness World Records recognized NASA's X-43A scramjet with a new world speed record for a jet-powered aircraft - Mach 9.6, or nearly 7,000 mph. The X-43A set the new mark and broke its own world record on its third and final flight on Nov. 16, 2004.

In March 2004, the X-43A set the previous record of Mach 6.8 (nearly 5,000 mph). The fastest air-breathing, manned vehicle, the U.S. Air Force SR-71, achieved slightly more than Mach 3.2. The X-43A more than doubled, then tripled, the top speed of the jet-powered SR-71.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-43
The X-43 is an unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft design with multiple planned scale variations meant to test different aspects of hypersonic flight. It is part of NASA's Hyper-X program.

A winged booster rocket with the X-43 itself at the tip, called a "stack", is launched from a carrier plane. After the booster rocket (a modified first stage of the Pegasus rocket) brings the stack to the target speed and altitude, it is discarded, and the X-43 flies free using its own engine, a scramjet.

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X-43A Goes 7,000 MPH - Getting Ready for Mach 10

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  • it'll be nice to ...

    it'll be nice to see a camera film that thing flying over mach 5 under 200 feet of flat land lol

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  • wow

    wow

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  • Oh i'll check it ...

    Oh i'll check it out but i think that's weird but i'm just saying what the book told me
    =]]

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  • But it says MACH ...

    But it says MACH 9.6 on the NASA website, click the link in the description.

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  • the already have a ...

    the already have a space station and is expanding it every launch up to space
    wait in about 25-50 years its gonna be like star treck and people are living up there so
    technology is getting very crazy

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