Pentagon, NASA Look to Renew Push in Hypersonics

Credit: MEDIA FUSION INC./NASA
The dream of hypersonic flight is lovely: an aircraft whose engine has almost no moving parts, flying maybe 10 times faster than the speed of sound. The principle is elegant and simple: Air moving at hypersonic speeds funnels into a chamber, mixes with fuel, burns and essentially explodes out the...

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