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 Scram jet X-51A Wave Rider

SCRAMJET X-51A WAVERIDER

SCRAMJET X-51A WAVERIDER

The Air Force’s X-51A Waverider experimental aircraft is powered by a state-of-the-art supersonic combustion scramjet engine that, unlike a rocket, can capture and burn oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere instead of carrying it in a large tank. In May 2013, the X-51A set a flight time record by making the longest sustained scramjet-powered, air-breathing hypersonic flight to date, reaching Mach 5 - an astonishing one mile per second, or nearly 4,000 miles per hour - and it continues to break records.
Researchers believe scramjet technology will soon produce game-changing hypersonic applications. Imagine a flight from New York to Los Angeles in less than 45 minutes!
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