Boeing X-51 WaveRider Scramjet Engine Demonstrator

[overlandzero]

How long would it take to consume most of the earths oxygen if all the plants died on went dormant ??

[chrisis1madcunt]

Wow , 100 years ago we had just made the first heavier-than-air flight vehicle, now look where we are :s creating vehicles which can fly at more than 7 times the speed of sound

[superotherguy1]

@chrisis1madcunt We passed mach 30 a while ago =]

[99XM]

@superotherguy1 true. Air is a MAss and must not be cut or penetratted, just flows ions by.;)

[Klause5425]

the problem with scram jets is that they can't do a standing start... they have to be in supersonic conditions.

[Igneale]

Well, if it's gonna kill us I want a ride before I die.

[FMXPRO199]

This is what is going to kill us off because if you think about, it burns our oxygen right? Everyone is gonna make them right? Slowly the technological advancements will make it used everywhere right? How much O2 is it gonna all burn total? Lol that's just something that came to mind.

[4agzeddy]

@FMXPRO199 So do car engines, diesel engines, coal power stations, refineries, jet engines, turbo-shaft engines, people, animals, camp fires, gas stoves, bush fires, flame throwers, napalm, explosives, hot air balloons and I can go on and on.  A scram jet engine will be a tiny drop in the ocean of things that burn oxygen.

[ScottKin]

@FMXPRO199 Every aircraft flying since the beginning of flight has been burning oxygen along with fuel. Get a grip!

[magnusalexa]

@ScottKin fossil fuel burnin is trappin radiation &heat in earths atmosphere,there are science reports which say the eventual height of this outcome will take appx 140 years to kick in,by which time it will be impossible to prevent it from heatin earths crust up enough to prevent plants from drawin water out of the ground.If we cant grow plants we cant farm fruit &veg,if we cant farm fruit &veg we cant farm animals. Fossil fuel burnin is goin to be the eventual downfall of us all

[ScottKin]

@magnusalexa Volcanoes spew enough toxic gases into the atmosphere to do the same damage as 100,000 of high-flying, supersonic & hypersonic aircraft and have been doing so since the Earth's formation. Based on your knee-jerk, tree-hugger response, we should immediately ban "Mother Nature" from making any new volcanoes and arresting all active Volcanoes for damaging the environment and attacking all dormant volcanoes because of their eminent eruptions. GET A GRIP! The Earth fixes itself!

[ScottKin]

@magnusalexa Volcanoes spew enough toxic gases into the atmosphere to do the same damage as 100,000 of high-flying, supersonic & hypersonic aircraft and have been doing so since the Earth's formation. Based on your knee-jerk, tree-hugger response, we should immediately ban "Mother Nature" from making any new volcanoes and arresting all active Volcanoes for damaging the environment and attacking all dormant volcanoes because of their eminent eruptions. Get a Grip! The Earth fixes itself!

[ScottKin]

@FMXPRO199 Evidently, you have no idea how ecological & environmental systems work: Plants take-in Carbon Dioxide and put-out Oxygen. There is about as much a chance of the Earth running out of Oxygen as everyone on the Earth winning the Lottery! BTW, did you know that only ~20% of the air you breath is Oxygen? 78% of it is Nitrogen!

[wesmatron]

@ScottKin We are running out of Helium though...but yea, we're not running out of Oxygen

[madrx2]

what's the service ceiling of these scramjet engine's?

[jazzhopin]

@madrx2 Well my opinion is this was part of "Aurora" to replace the sr 71 so expect it to have a ceiling around to 80,000+ feet.

[madrx2]

@jazzhopin sweet, I thought as much. I remember seeing 3 Aurora's flying over country victoria at 2am in the morning a few years ago. There was Nothing else it could have been moving that fast. I have a video on my old Hdd, I Uploaded it a few years ago but back then youtube was only 320p and you cant make anything out in it. Subscribe and I'll get it up in the next few weeks.

[magnusalexa]

@madrx2 fossil fuel burnin is trappin radiation &heat in earths atmosphere,there are science reports which say the eventual height of this outcome will take appx 140 years to kick in,by which time it will be impossible to prevent it from heatin earths crust up enough to prevent plants from drawin water out of the ground.If we cant grow plants we cant farm fruit &veg,if we cant farm fruit &veg we cant farm animals. Fossil fuel burnin is goin to be the eventual downfall of us all

[madrx2]

@magnusalexa what has this got to do with me?

[megabowzer100]

this is the future of space travel..it makes sense to use scramjets instead of solid rocket boosters that require a huge fuel carrier restricting payload..this is exciting :)

[KevinDC5]

am i just a nerd or does it look like a small scale "AURORA" program!?!?!?!!!?!!?

[wlmason73]

Could someone explain how a scramjet would be viable for space travel? Unless I misunderstand things, fuel combustion requires airflow through the system. It would seem that once it left the atmosphere this kind of propulsion system would no longer function. Is this correct? If not, how would such a propulsion system operate in space? Thanks...

[beelzbub]

@wlmason73 Correct, what they mean by "space lift" is breaking past Earth's gravity to reach orbit. If you think of the space shuttle, it's a small aircraft strapped onto an enormous liquid fuel tank (the oxidizers) and two solid rocket boosters. This gives the shuttle enough energy to enter orbit, but it weighs a lot and limits how much cargo you can actually put into orbit on a single trip. Their idea is to use scramjets to burn atmospheric O2 rather than carrying it in massive tanks.

[KevinDC5]

@wlmason73 You are correct in the point a scramjet would nolonger create thrust once out of atmosphere....however you could use your current inertia and momentum to carry yourself into sub-orbit, then rely on a much smaller much more effiecient oxidized booster of some sort to reach orbit.

[dapperswindler]

Screw aircraft carriers. This is the future of warfare.

[foom5]

Chuck Norris can suck balls

[gsmonks]

It's just a RAMjet. That's R-A-M-j-e-t. Big freaking deal. You've renamed the ramjet as a scramjet. Whoop-dee-doo.

[anybodykilla58]

@gsmonks same concept, except a traditional ramjet is limited in speed due to the speed of incoming air blowing out the burner, a scramjet does not have a burner and instead uses the compression of super sonic air to cause spontaneous combustion. before you make a comment you should know what it is you're talking about. btw it's called a SCramjet because it is a Supersonic Compression ramjet, hur dur.

[whateever876543]

chuck norris was in the thing piloting it, then he puched through mach 4.

[TheRebornjason]

i dont think any anti missile system can beat this thing..... it will make a great ballistic missile.

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

@TheRebornjason Not better than MIRV systems with decoys, or steerable RVs. This is a 2nd rate technology for that. But it is good for other things.

[TheRebornjason]

@r0ck3tsm0k3 thanks wow u are really smart :) :)

[crellis0290]

@r0ck3tsm0k3 Sounds like the U.S. Navy and NASA are trying to improve on MIRV technology. One of the beneficial claims of the scramjet is that it will improve the efficiency of the warfighter to deliver weapons payload. Obviously, they are working on applying this technology to things like ballistic missiles and anti-missile programs. Calling it second rate is like calling a Lamborghini slow.

[whothewu]

How much of the fuel mass budget is used by the oxidizer versus the propellant for a modern spaceflight? I'm kind of curious about that.

[SirColeII]

@whothewu For the space shuttle it takes approximately equal parts liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. With liquids being pretty heavy cutting out a significant amount of onboard oxidizer will dramatically increase the payload of the vehicle. Scramjets are like the holy grail of single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft.

[D1Champ08]

man.. equip weapons with these scramjets.. nothing will outrun them.. or outfly

[earthstation1]

We don't need scramjets Just use Antigravity like the secret space fleet uses

ck out Solar Warden

[RetroFishman]

Maybe the contrail from one of these scram jets is what we saw last Nov off the coast of Ca close to Pt Magu that some people were claiming was a missle launch or a chemtrail tanker. The govt said they didnt have a clue but could it not have been one of these things we saw on the News last year?

[iindium49]

mac 6 lol thats slow. max theoretical speed of a scram jet last time i looked was mac 24+

[AlexKalicinski]

@iindium49

Mach 24 would be fast enough to go around half the world in one second.

Im sure its possible. But I dont think its possible for anything to withstand the beating it would take.

[b3gunkid90]

@AlexKalicinski mach 24 at 50000ft is around 16000mph, and half the circumference of the Earth is 12500 miles, so it would take over 45 mins, not 1 second! Ok so its still pretty quick...

[AlexKalicinski]

@b3gunkid90

Haha you know what I mean.

But thats insane.

[Armigo91]

@iindium49

mach 20 - 21 actually.

[snorkellisab]

how many $billions? How many schools could have been built? Schools have bakes sales for paper. KIds go wanting for materials and decent lunches. We pour billions into military without a thought .. but education gets the shitty end of the stick .. education hasn't progressed from the 50's... but we can deliver bombs at mach 6. How nice. USA is so fuct.

[KSCElite]

@snorkellisab you sir, are retard. If it wasnt for technological research this country wouldnt even be a military or technological superpower.

[Bacon55481]

@snorkellisa Eh ehm. a few billion dollars is like $2 to the us government. The United States could literally take a crap that costs a few billion dollars thats how much money the government has. As you just said ''' How many schools could have been built?'' What does it matter if we build more schools if you just said ''education hasnt progressed since the 50's?'' Then we would have wasted more money on insufficient schools which is a waste of money. BTW Ed. has progessed ALOT since the 50s.

[TorsionTransport89]

@Bacon55481 You're an idiot. This is an obvious waste of money.

[G2DaooZe]

@snorkellisab

dont be mad at them just because ur kid is dumb.

[noalewer]

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[oliver5976]

I think I will stick with trains

[angelite143]

they gonna bust starwars' ships which can reach speeds up to mach 100 :)

[manoman0]

@ozzyguy67 yeah, and wheels as well...

[AustralianPyro]

@manoman0

aaw, buddums, you wanna cry?

[fdoca]

Chinese invented early Ramjet in 1930's, the shape is considerable diffrent, with a compress nozzle like, it were use air, kerosine or propane gas (search youtube U can see the replicated Chinese ramjet)

China also invented 35,000 gun power rockets bow horse carriage, were used in waring state period, there is a carrage launch display in mussium, Discorvery channel has special report on this. if i remember correctly in 1,500 years ago

[G777GUN]

@fdoca

The Nazis also tested a lot of this tech. But due to materials being pretty crap they never got any of this stuff to work.

[selearemus]

@G777GUN bullshit

[kashsoldier]

@fdoca and then you woke up and went to school. LOL

[zowzow1]

Chuck Norris invented scramjet when he marked mach 4 with his round kick.

[elzupelzu]

@zowzow1 Chuck Norris ain't shit!

[vivtin]

@zowzow1 he's also a creationist

[Dizasta767]

@ozzyguy67 Bullshit

[spkgm]

@ozzyguy67 Wikipedia and scramjet.info both prove you wrong. there were many scramjets before 2002 lol

[spkgm]

@ozzyguy67 Lol get your facts straight. It was teams of scientist back in the 50's and 60's and yes one was Ray Stalker an aussi who worked with on wind tunnels but he did not invent the scramjet we see today or even the concept. I vote humans invented the scram jet.

[787brx8]

@spkgm I know the real guy that designed multiple Scramjet engines back when he was in high school. November 16 is his birthday, look up Scramjet on Wikipedia to find the same date. He also designed the F-22, F-35, and the new update to the Boeing 747 to name a few.

[covingtonium]

i jack off faster than this

[MusicalAndTall]

@covingtonium ...Because you get no action from women...

[d3adinside1234]

is u rode in that u would liquidfy and cook

[StaggnGuvnor]

guys think about it for a second- from about 2.5 thousand miles an hour to between 15 and 25 thousand miles an hour (depending on conditions) in less than a minute. do you really think this would be manned? seriously- it will probably be used for missile defence and orbital space travel where inertia does not have such an effect. these engines are seriously awesome!!!!

[radioactivetesticles]

why the fuck wouldnt you use duct tape

[DavZZee]

looks like it has a lot of duct tape on it. I guess the budget cut back is really having an effect on all programs.

[hokagealex]

why the hell is it so small?? it can barely carry 2 people

[moud22]

@hokagealex

It's for testing the technology, not for carrying people.

[hokagealex]

@moud22 i just found out 3 days ago

[Datamanc3r]

So, was there any acceleration demonstrated from the telemetry, or cruise only? Also, how long did it operate before flame out? I saw reports initially of 500 seconds, and then every report I saw after that became less and less.

[cuallito]

We had the sr-71 that did mach 3 (al least) in the 60s and this is the cutting edge, 50 years later? Gimme a break.

[diamondmoney007]

all technology recovered from the Roswell alien ufo crash,,,,,, Military is reverse engineering this stuff.

[somejackball]

and humans will benefit from this how?..

[rxvexe]

@somejackball Faster jets with less payload, if you watched the video other than posting ignorant comments maybe you wouldn't be asking a dumb question.

[hokagealex]

@rxvexe will this be for transportation or just for combat??

[eeirertomb]

The air gets replaced all the time, so stop your bitching

[geekfish]

Metallurgy has to keep up with the speed of engines. This never comes back, just burns up from what I understand.

[LoryLandskipper]

so the x51 a is the little thing that dropped from the plane? I thought it was the actual plane.... wtf

[hokagealex]

@LoryLandskipper for real me too lol it can barely carry a person lol. i guess squirrels can travel faster now lol

[twisteeR6]

It just sucks that we have to use rockets to get the scramjet up to the speed for the engine to be more efficient than rockets. Seems kinda redundant. :)

[LoryLandskipper]

@twisteeR6

Well, think of it this way: If you were in a rocket, you would need to run that rocket the entire time. If you can turn the rocket off and let the scramjet take over (have a dual system) then it would be viable.

[element774]

@twisteeR6 its not redundant. The speed required for the scram jets to activate their burn is quite manageable....So instead of carrying the huge Orange fuel tank with the space shuttle, we would see a much smaller tank, and then a scram jet or two next to it...Providing MUCH larger lift, for heavier payloads...Right now the technology is in infancy stages...eventually we will see entire systems based off of these scram jets.....

[greenboy215]

@element774

I heard that the magnetic rail launching technology has a more advantage as in launching electronic equipment to space. So no need for explosive rockets, which shouldn't be that close to millions of dollars of electronics anyway.

[element774]

@greenboy215 the rail technology you're talking about is for weapons-projectile use. If you pictured a satellite being thrusted at the rail guns speed that they are aiming for. I can almost guarantee equipment would have to be built with much more protection in mind...The rail gun accelerates the projectile to mach 7 instantly, where as a rocket safely reaches it's speeds gradually. Picture a multi-billion dollar, very fragile satellite trying to cope with these forces.

[element774]

@greenboy215 When they already have to design them with the forces from gravity and the rockets we use today, I highly doubt we can build anything more then a metal rod, and maybe some types of missiles to be shot out of those rail guns.

[element774]

@greenboy215 We spend countless amounts on research just to combat the violence in normal rocket lift offs. So logically I don't think nasa or anyone else wants to deal with instant mach 7 speeds lol.

[Coltranized]

Burn our air? . . . oh boy.

[rllang01]

@Coltranized You burn the air every time you drive your car.

[Coltranized]

@rllang01 I think its time to change my car into a X-51 WaveRider then. . .

[4stringsaplenty]

HAHAHA "Ludicrous speed!!"

Spaceballs rules.!

[plarkmoby]

ludicrous speed!

[MrJamDiaz]

NICE !

[iSNiPEjust]

thx