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The unmanned X-51A WaveRider made the longest air-breathing, scramjet-powered hypersonic flight in history, flying for three and a half minutes on scramjet power (just over six minutes in all ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate celebrates the 10th anniversary of the X-51A’s longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight May 26. The flight ...

The B-52H crew were trying to thread a needle through an invisible point in the sky to hit the correct launch conditions for the test flight of the X-51A Waverider hypersonic demonstrator.

The initiative builds on the X-51A Waverider program. A demonstration flight on May 1 demonstrator achieved a speed of Mach 5.1 at an altitude of 60,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. The X-51A ...

The United States Air Force has a serious need for speed. On May first their X-51A Waverider zoomed to an amazing Mach 5.1 – more than five times the speed of sound. While there was no pilot behind ...

The X-51A project is managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, with funding from the Pentagon's mad science division, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

The air-breathing engine that powered the X-51A WaveRider could be key not just to travelling coast to coast in under 40 minutes but to making the sort of deep-space exploration seen in "Star Trek ...

Case in point: Boeing’s X-51A WaveRider. The unmanned hypersonic vehicle “achieved the longest air-breathing, scramjet-powered hypersonic flight in history May 1, flying for three and a half ...

An unmanned X-51A Waverider test plane achieved an incredible speed of more than 3800 mph on May 1, reaching Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean. The X-51A traveled more than 230 nautical miles in rou ...

The unmanned X-51A WaveRider sped westward for four minutes, reaching Mach 5.1, or more than five times the speed of sound, before making a planned plunge into the ocean. It flew for longer than ...

The Boeing X-51A, an experimental 'scramjet' missile for the U.S. Military, broke hypersonic speed records this week as it flew at Mach 5.1 for three and a half minutes. The X-51A is nicknamed 'The ...