NASA built an X-42A hydrogen-powered scramjet to reach speeds of Mach 9.6 for a brief moment in 2004. Therefore, this new ...

Scramjet from Popular Science. The first true reusable, free-flying scramjet could be Darpa's HTV-3X. It is also known as Blackswift. The HTV-3x could make its inaugural flight as early as 2012.

And sooner than you think, it could be coming to an airport near you. What exactly is a scramjet? Short for "supersonic combustion ramjet," a scramjet is, at its core, an engine technology aimed at ...

Decades before hypersonics entered today's headlines, NASA drafted an aircraft that bordered on surreal. Discover the story ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have achieved a new record thrust output from a scramjet engine, providing a boost for hypersonic flight. A year of ground testing ...

Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft ...

A small group of Australian scientists made aviation history July 30 with the successful atmospheric test of a supersonic air-breathing engine in flight. Working with a budget most big science ...

They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker. So fast it could put satellites ...

A team of engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Test Center have set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in the military branch's ...

Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Northrop Grumman successfully test flew an air-breathing hypersonic missile on September 20, 2021. Part of a program for DARPA and the US Air Force, the Hypersonic ...

388091 01: FILE PHOTO: An artist's conception of NASA's X-43A Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle, or "Hyper-X" in flight, in an undated photo. The vehicle, developed to flight test a dual-mode ...

The successor to the Blackbird, called the “Son of Blackbird,” will likely first be developed for unmanned use. If ...