A’s Legacy Go Operational? -In 2004, NASA’s X-43A set the air-breathing speed record at Mach 9.6, validating scramjet combustion but only for 10 seconds before gliding to splashdown. -The demo ended ...

Can you imagine flying from New York to Los Angeles in less than 15 minutes? Although it seems incredible, there is an aircraft capable of this feat: meet ...

Supersonic combustion and scramjet engine dynamics represent a frontier in aerospace propulsion, offering a pathway to ultra‐high-speed flight through the efficient combustion of fuel in a supersonic ...

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STUDENT SCRAMJET: Aerospace engineering researchers and students at the University of Virginia will display a hypersonic “scramjet” engine prototype March 19. The research team is preparing to unveil ...

India has fired up a domestically developed scramjet engine as part of its pursuit of hypersonic missiles. The Hyderabad-based Defense Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL) ran an active-cooled ...

Key Points and Summary – Skunk Works’ SR-72 concept chases the Blackbird’s core idea—speed as survival—with a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) engine to take off like a jet and cruise like a ...