What has zero moving parts, yet can blast an aerial vehicle to velocities beyond Mach 5? The answer is the recently flight-tested Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) powered by a ...
A’s Legacy Go Operational? -In 2004, NASA’s X-43A set the air-breathing speed record at Mach 9.6, validating scramjet combustion but only for 10 seconds before gliding to splashdown. -The demo ended ...
It is over 20 years since Concorde’s last flight, and since then the idea of supersonic flight has mostly been grounded. Many ...
Last month, Craig Young, the executive director for GE Edison Works, identified the dual-mode ramjet as the GE26. This ...