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X-51A Waverider test flight ends in failure

19:18 GMT 15 August 2012

The US Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) third test flight of the Boeing/Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne X-51A Waverider hypersonic test vehicle on 14...

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15 August
X-51A Waverider test flight ends in failure

The US Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) third test flight of the Boeing/Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne X-51A Waverider hypersonic test vehicle on 14...

13 April
LAAD11: Brazil reveals details of 14-X hypersonic vehicle

With first flight of the 14-X waverider scramjet scheduled in 2013, Brazilian military officials have revealed details of the country's first venture ...

17 March
P&W; readies modified scramjet for second X-51A hypersonic flight

The second Boeing X-51A Waverider, set for a 22 March launch attempt, includes modifications designed to eliminate the problems that prevented the fir...

12 July
FARNBOROUGH: Hypersonics hype?

HYPERSONIC HYPE? Is the world any closer to witnessing aircraft fly at Mach 5? Or will it always be 10 years away? GAYLE PUTRICH WASHINGTON DC As.....

27 May
PICTURES & ANIMATION: X-51A Waverider reaches Mach 5 in 140s scramjet flight

US Air Force and Boeing researchers on 26 May took...
14 April
USAF to expand Boeing X-51A Waverider programme

The US Air Force plans to add up to six more test flights of Boeing's expendable X-51A Waverider hypersonic scramjet vehicle, in preparation for an op...

26 October
Australia plans scramjet experiment

An Australia-based international team hopes by 2012 to fly a Mach 8 scramjet experiment to examine combustion and thrust by 2012. Russell Boyce, chai...

06 August
Hypersonic X-51A gets December launch date

The US Air Force Research Laboratory is making final preparations for a four-flight scramjet test programme that it hopes will prove that achieving hy...

28 April
Hot-flow test complete for Falcon ram/scramjet engine

The US Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) has announced completion of a hot flow test on a...

18 February
India plans delayed scramjet flight test for 2010

India's first scramjet technology demonstrator will be flight-tested next year, four years later than planned and having failed to meet two previous t...
13 October
VIDEOS: DARPA cancels Blackswift hypersonic test bed

Funding cuts by lawmakers have doomed a hypersonic project named Blackswift that was to develop a long-awaited successor to the Lockheed SR-71 Bl...

10 September
X-51A scramjet readied for flight tests

Hypersonic wind tunnel tests concluding this month at NASA's Langley Research Centre will put the US Air Force Research...

26 August
USAF aims to extend alternate fuels to scramjets

Flight tests and full-scale engine demonstrators for evaluating non-conventional fuels is to be a focus of co-operation between the US Air Force Resea...

16 June
Boeing seeks DARPA funds for third HyFly flight

Boeing is trying to secure funding from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to attempt a third flight of...

27 May
AFRL X-51A flight unit fabrication begins

With its critical design review complete, the US Air Force Research Laboratory has begun fabrication and assembly of itsX-51A supersonic combustion ra...
28 April
Raytheon lifts veil on ramjet-powered HARM

Raytheon today unveiled a new concept for revolutionizing the accuracy, range, speed and perhaps even the mission of the quarter-century-old AGM-88 hi...

21 September
Boeing HyFly ready to soar after Aerojet Mach 6 tests

Aerojet has completed Mach 6 ground testing of a flightweight combustor for its dual-combustion ramjet, clearing the way for flight tests of the HyFl...

12 July
Technology briefing

Israel helps India with scramjet demonstrator HYPERSONIC Israel Aerospace Industries is co-operating with http://www.drdo.org/ India's Defence Resear...

11 July
Israel helps India develop scramjet demonstrator

Israel Aerospace Industries is cooperating with http://www.drdo.org/ India's...

15 June
Australia tests scramjet engine

TRIAL Australia has conducted the first flight test of an inward-turning scramjet engine, which reached Mach 10 on re-entry following a rocket launch ...

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