X-43 flights will soon begin hypersonic flight

X-43 FLIGHTS: The first of three unpiloted X-43 vehicles in NASA's Hyper-X program will soon begin hypersonic flight from the space agency's Dryden Flight Research Center, Calif. They will be flying from seven to 10 times the speed of sound, using air-breathing scramjet engines instead of...

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