A, the unmanned experimental aircraft that holds the world record for the fastest flight by an air-breathing jet. -As part of ...

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 ...

NASA’s second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft flew successfully today, the first time an airbreathing scramjet powered aircraft has flown freely. The unpiloted vehicle’s supersonic combustion ...

NASA's unmanned X-43A "scramjet" broke the aircraft speed record for the second time this year yesterday, streaking flawlessly across clear blue Pacific skies at nearly 10 times the speed of sound to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A tiny unmanned NASA "scramjet" soared over the Pacific Ocean Tuesday to demonstrate a radical new engine technology by attempting to fly at a record speed of about 7,000 mph, ...

Doctoral student Max Chern takes a closer look at the wind tunnel setup where University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science researchers demonstrated that control of a dual-mode ...

Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: The NASA X-43 was a groundbreaking hypersonic aircraft developed under the Hyper-X program in the late 1990s. It set records, reaching speeds... This Is ...

NASA has rescheduled the last captive-carry flight of its X-43A hypersonic demonstrator aircraft for Sept. 27 from Dryden Flight Research Center, Calif., the agency announced. If the flight is ...

A news media briefing for the final X-43A hypersonic-research flight is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 5, 2004, at 1 p.m. EST. The event is at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Edwards, Calif.