Air Force X51-A Waverider flies at Mach 6 for 3 minutes
 

An experimental aircraft has set a record for hypersonic flight, flying more than 3 minutes at Mach 6 ? six times the speed of sound.

The X-51A Waverider was released from a B-52 Stratofortress off the southern California coast Wednesday morning, the Air Force reported on its website. Its scramjet engine accelerated the vehicle to Mach 6, and it flew autonomously for 200 seconds before losing acceleration. At that point the test was terminated.

The Air Force said the previous record for a hypersonic scramjet burn was 12 seconds.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/...ersonic_flight

Cool toy.

when i shoot my load i top out at Mach 3 for 2.9 secs

i like the heavy breathing in the video lolll

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2000% improvement from the previous record? Not bad...

So whats the use to that?

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its a new propulsion technology.. if it works well they can incorporate it into bigger military airplanes..

think flying from New York To London in 45mins to drop a bomb and fly back..

besides mach 7 is fucking faster than pretty much every missle out there.. so how do u shoot an airplane going that fast down?? :1orglaugh

why just military? i'd love a 30 minute trip to montreal

That's pretty much a rocket, no?

And it's a giant waste of money. What do they need it for? Just to proove that they can fly that fast? Nobody's every going to travel at such a speed. The g forces would crush you.

thats pretty fast...would be cool to take a ride in one

someday we would be able to minimize/mitigate the gforces inside the aircraft so we can travel as fast as we want...

that is the future of war, they will strike in 10 minutes any where on world

yupp mach 7, then next thing in 20yrs we have missles going 30,000 miles/hr that can take off in texas and hit north korea in maybe 15mins.. cool stuff huh

Mach 6 for 300s was the goal. It did mach 5 for 200.

mach 5 = 3300 mph @ 50,000'

So it flew ~200mi while at mach 5.

I have that in stock in 2 weeks please tweeter me for orders

The future wars will last in days not years as before.........I was wondering what will happened if Hitler would have this kind technology back in time.........hmmm

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crazy it flew the distance from like new york to maryland in less than 4 minutes. LOL

nice one:)

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/ap...-323352987.jpg

Beam me up Scotty!

interesting...

It will never work out for commercial planes or military for one simple reason: Its too frakking expensive.