X-43A Goes 7,000 MPH - Getting Ready for Mach 10

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.html
X-43A Raises the Bar to Mach 9.6
Guinness World Records recognized NASA's X-43A scramjet with a new world speed record for a jet-powered aircraft - Mach 9.6, or nearly 7,000 mph. The X-43A set the new mark and broke its own world record on its third and final flight on Nov. 16, 2004.

In March 2004, the X-43A set the previous record of Mach 6.8 (nearly 5,000 mph). The fastest air-breathing, manned vehicle, the U.S. Air Force SR-71, achieved slightly more than Mach 3.2. The X-43A more than doubled, then tripled, the top speed of the jet-powered SR-71.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-43
The X-43 is an unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft design with multiple planned scale variations meant to test different aspects of hypersonic flight. It is part of NASA's Hyper-X program.

A winged booster rocket with the X-43 itself at the tip, called a "stack", is launched from a carrier plane. After the booster rocket (a modified first stage of the Pegasus rocket) brings the stack to the target speed and altitude, it is discarded, and the X-43 flies free using its own engine, a scramjet.

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[windfish113]

@ 0:27 is it 1992? Or NASA can't afford flatscreen LCD's?

[SlugAbuse]

@windfish113

That's the US government directing funds to war instead of science.

[omega4chimp]

@RIEKSONE Yeah I know because the ribbits or the nut or somthing were made out of cheaper metal,that should of been made out of tatinum nuts or somthing,but they used a cheaper metel.i dont think it was anything to do with the engine and who know how they flew the plan,they can of flew up 80 000 feet and just started to use the earths gravity to gian momentum.

[RIEKSONE]

@omega4chimp

they can but the engine cannot sustain it for long though

because it's know to disintegrate

so they limit it to 2.8 mach

[RIEKSONE]

@SlugAbuse

us government should fund neither

[omega4chimp]

the mig-25 can go mach 3.2 you need to go eat your eggs.

[DeathReaper461]

@windfish113 CRT's are way better for business as they handle programs efficently that use color alteration.LCD may be the State of the art tech etc.. they introduce the problem of viewing angles, and generally have less accurate color replication from the operations that are done. If you notice most businesses have CRT's

[Syked101]

And now were entering the alien age,

[eyeAMtwinkEE]

@SlugAbuse So you would prefer to spend money on LCD monitors instead of more important things?

[kotscolt]

My ufo will shit on this

[Mrangusthecow]

@windfish113 it was in 2004

[super4chicken]

@EricsTechTalk well, almost any turn would be highly exaggerated within the cockpit, if you want to turn at all you will feel a ton of pressure on your, and if done wrong, could possibly kill you