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X-15-2 crash at Mud Lake, Nevada. The second plane, X-15-2, was rebuilt [20] after a landing accident on 9 November 1962 which damaged the craft and injured its pilot, John McKay. [21] The new plane renamed X-15A-2, had a new 28 -in. fuselage extension to carry liquid hydrogen. [1]
The first manufactured object to achieve hypersonic flight was the two-stage Bumper rocket, consisting of a WAC Corporal second stage set on top of a V-2 first stage. In February 1949, at White Sands, the rocket reached a speed of 8,290 km/h (5,150 mph), or about Mach 6.7. [2]
The NASA X-43 was an experimental unmanned hypersonic aircraft with multiple planned scale variations meant to test various aspects of hypersonic flight. It was part of the X-plane series and specifically of NASA's Hyper-X program developed in the late 1990s. [1] It set several airspeed records for jet aircraft.
The Aurora legend started in 1985, when the Los Angeles Times [5] and later Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine broke the news that the term "Aurora" had been inadvertently included in the 1985 U.S. budget, as an allocation of $455 million for "black aircraft production" in FY 1987. [6]
China tests hypersonic passenger plane that can fly from London to New York in under 2 hours. Anthony Cuthbertson. October 31, 2024 at 8:40 AM.
The Boeing X-51 Waverider is an unmanned research scramjet experimental aircraft for hypersonic flight at Mach 5 (3,300 mph; 5,300 km/h) and an altitude of 70,000 feet (21,000 m). The aircraft was designated X-51 in 2005. It completed its first powered hypersonic flight on 26 May 2010.
Airbus expects the hypersonic jet to reach speeds as high as Mach 4.5 -- or four and half times the speed of sound. Airbus patented a jet that could fly from London to NY in 1 hour Skip to main ...
He said it was among the capabilities that could help the Air Force against the advanced air defenses of the mid-2020s. Welsh said the service was pursuing hypersonic technology, but lacked the material ability to construct a full-size plane like the uncrewed SR-72. He also said the Air Force had not talked to Lockheed about the SR-72. [11]