X-43A Goes 7,000 MPH - Launch from the Mothership

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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[deerturk88]

@Disturbed11491 tht is a very big thing to some people...

[Disturbed11491]

How about both ya'll shut the fuck up? Arguing on youtube commments is like winning the special olympics..

[Jennetteisawsum]

@nicktesla45 I apoligize for the excessive grammatical and spelling errors, it's harder than you think to type long paragraphs like this on a Kindle Fire with a very poor internet connection.

[Jennetteisawsum]

@nicktesla45 But so is nuclear radiation yet we use it to power many crafts such as submarines, and we can do it because there are simple precautions you take to avoid exposure. And NO SHIT A LIFE FORCE ENVIRONMENT IS REQUIRED ITS NECESSARY TO SURVIVAL

[Jennetteisawsum]

@nicktesla45 @nicktesla45 o lecture me on shit I already know. And youre talking out of your ass so much right now its ridiculous. Mind-body integration has absolutley nothing to do with physics, its just a bullshit therapy to help people woth their problems that just make them human. But if you're saying that anti-matter is bad for the human body or something that falls in to that criteria, NO SHIT!

[Jennetteisawsum]

@nicktesla45 So, who gives a shit about Lazar? i just mentioned him because you did not make it clear what you were refering to when you were talking about a flying saucer in your first comment so i thougt you were referencing to unknowed machinery which made no sense. I also never said that there was only one way to bend space-time, now you're just trying t

[Jennetteisawsum]

@nicktesla45 No, I dont know what the 4 factors of gravity are and im pretty fucking confident there's no such thing becsuse though i suppose thay the fact that im only 14 could account for why I havent been informed on these "4 factors" i have just spent the last ten minutes searching for ANY sort of related topic to "the 4 factors that make up gravity" and I haven't founds shit so id actually like to hear what they are because im open to learn, so please, enlighten me.

[Jennetteisawsum]

@nicktesla45 When we say "space is a vacuum" it is because space is the closest thing we know to an absolute vacuum. Yes, i do know what an electro-static lens is you prick. it is a device that transports charged particles much the same way th lenses in a telescope guide light.

[Jennetteisawsum]

@nicktesla45 I never denied the fact that there was potential for propulsion through a low pressure mechanism. (Though with our lack of understanding of atomic fields it is entirely unfeasible at this point in time) And, did I say it was a perfect vacuum? No. However, it is the closest thing us humans know to a vacuum, because space is filled with such a negligible amount of matter it is almost non-existant. There is less than 1 hydrogen atom per cubic meter in space.

[nicktesla45]

@Jennetteisawsum Listen to me you MORON, Lasar was working on a diffrent propulsion system that uses an element that Does NOT exist on earth ! BUT there are at least 4 diffrent ways to bend the Fabric of Space-Time, NOT JUST ONE !! One method is Antimater but That shit is Bad for the Mind-Body Integration. One more thing, You go ahead and try to leave the Earth without a Life-Force Enviornment in your ship and see what happens to you a Million miles out. You'll be a Crystalized Asshole Bitch !