The United States may soon become capable of striking any country on the globe within less than an hour, thanks to the successful completion of a new test flight. The maneuver involved a hypersonic aircraft that has been under development for many years.
The original concept was managed by the US Defense Advanced R... |
18 November 2011
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A test flight that took place yesterday, August 11, on the western coast of the United States, ended in failure for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The organization was testing its new hypersonic aircraft prototype, a vehicle built to travel at Mach 20.If successful, the project could ... |
12 August 2011
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Officials at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announce plans to carry out a new test flight of an unmanned bomber, the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2). The design calls for the creation of a spacecraft/aircraft platform that is capable of using scramjet technology to travel at s... |
11 August 2011
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A consortium of government and private organizations and agencies in the United States is gearing up for the second test flight of an aircraft that utilizes a new type of engine. Scramjets have been proposed for years, but actually building one proved to be a lot more difficult than engineers thought. This technology... |
23 March 2011
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The new commercial passenger plane capable of supersonic flight, the so-called 'Son of Concorde' is thought to become the hypersonic airliner of the modern air travel. It will be capable of reaching 5,440 kilometers per hour, meaning that it will travel the distance from London to Sydney in only five hours,... |
5 February 2008
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