This is definetely something cool you should know. An experimental aircraft named the X51a Waverider is set to break the record for hypersonic flight. At an astonishing speed of more than three times at Mach 6. Its unbelievable six times faster than sound travels.
Speed of sound, thats what the x51a waverider is. It was released Wednesday morning from a B-52 Stratofortress off southern California coast. According to the Air Force, on their website, they wrote about speed of sound and that it accelerated the monster to Mach 6, and according to sources it flew autonomously for 200 seconds after it finally gave in and slowly lost acceleration. This whole test had stopped when the x51a started to loose acceleration.
The last record for a hypersonic scramjet was 12 seconds and what the Air Force had to say was this:
“We are ecstatic to have accomplished many of the X-51A test points during its first hypersonic mission,” said Charlie Brink, an X-51A program manager with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
“We equate this leap in engine technology as equivalent to the post-World War II jump from propeller-driven aircraft to jet engines,” Brink said.
Its amazing how technology advances and everything becomes better. But at this point i think its better if we keep our feet on the ground. What do you think of the new x 51a waverider that goes beyond the speed of sound?
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