Scramjet tests set stage for AF hypersonic flights
Successful wind tunnel tests of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's X-1 Scramjet engine just completed at NASA's Langley Research Center show that the U.S. Air Force's plans to conduct hypersonic flight-tests in 2009 are on track. Scramjet engine performance met or exceeded all of the Air Force's and Pratt...
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