HYPERSONIC AIRCRAFT READY FOR LAUNCH

August 09, 2011


How do you learn to fly at 13,000 miles per hour—a speed at which it would take less than 12 minutes to get from New York to Los Angeles? Or, how do you know whether a vehicle can maintain a long-duration flight while experiencing temperatures in excess of 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit—hotter than a blast furnace that can melt steel? And if you can fly, and withstand the extreme heat, how do you know if the vehicle can be controlled as it rips apart the air? How? You try it.
 

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Little late to the party OP, that sumbitch went awol today.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/08/vandenberg-launch-hypersonic-vehicle-fails.html

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I think it broke warp speed and is now autonomously ditching itself in another planet's ocean in a galaxy far, far away.