India Joins Select Group With Scramjet Flight Test

India is celebrating the success of its first scramjet engine, on its first flight, and rightly so: Even allowing for a relatively modest test objective—about 5 sec. of supersonic combustion in engines strapped to a sounding rocket—it highlights how the U.S. lead in this propulsion technology is...

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