X-51A Scramjet Engine Completes Ground Tests
Credit: PRATT & WHITNEY ROCKETDYNE
A year from now, over the Pacific Ocean off California in airspace cleared of all civilian traffic, hypersonics could take a step closer to reality. In the same skies where five years earlier the X-43A Hyper-X flew for 10 sec. at Mach 9.6, powered by a supersonic-combustion ramjet, the X-51A...
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