NASA's unmanned X-43A "scramjet" broke the aircraft speed record for the second time this year yesterday, streaking flawlessly across clear blue Pacific skies at nearly 10 times the speed of sound to ...

The November 16 flight took place in restricted airspace over the Pacific Ocean northwest of Los Angeles. The flight was the last and fastest of three unpiloted tests in NASA's Hyper-X Program. The ...

2004-11-17 04:00:00 PDT Kern County-- NASA's supersonic surfboard, the unmanned X-43A aircraft, streaked into history Tuesday, setting an unofficial world speed record for jet aircraft of Mach 9.6, or ...

Scramjet from Popular Science. The first true reusable, free-flying scramjet could be Darpa's HTV-3X. It is also known as Blackswift. The HTV-3x could make its inaugural flight as early as 2012.

A tiny unmanned Nasa "scramjet" soared above the Pacific Ocean at nearly 10 times the speed of sound - almost 7,000mph - in a record-breaking demonstration of a radical new engine technology. A tiny ...

When an experimental jet called the X-43A exploded over the Pacific Ocean during a test flight in 2001, five years of work by NASA Langley researchers fell to pieces. NASA released a report last week ...

NASA plans to test an aircraft this weekend designed to fly seven times the speed of sound, using an innovative engine called a "scramjet." The test is part of an effort to develop missiles that can ...

NASA's X-43A research vehicle screamed into the record books again Tuesday, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. Preliminary data from the ...

LOS ANGELES, March 27 (UPI) -- NASA's experimental hypersonic plane screamed over the California skies and into the Pacific Ocean Saturday as it briefly exceeded Mach 7. The unpiloted X-43A aircraft ...