{"id":581780,"date":"2010-05-27T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=13585"},"modified":"2010-05-27T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:29:08","slug":"x-51a-waverider-missile-mach-6-speed-of-sound-scramjet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581780","title":{"rendered":"X-51A Waverider missile: Mach 6-Speed of Sound Scramjet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/X51_waverider.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/X51_waverider-300x164.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a>X-51A Waverider<\/strong> missile of US Air Force has sustained an amazing record of Mach 6. The nextgen-scramjet-technology-powered X-51A Waverider was launched over the southern California coast. A\u00a0remarkable speed of sound has been marked by\u00a0X-51A Waverider missile.<\/p>\n<p>The US Air Force affirmed that its X-51A Waverider cruise missile \u2013 a next-generation vehicle powered by scramjet technology \u2013 has reached a speed of Mach 6 during the test. As stated by the Air Force, the X-51A Waverider was carried by a B-52 aircraft having an altitude of 50,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The X-51A Waverider have sustained a Mach 6 speed for approximately 200 seconds. \u00a0The 200 seconds at Mach 6 have marked the record to beat the previous scramjet record of 12 seconds. As stated by the Associated Press, Charlie Brink, an X-51A program manager at the Air Force Research Laboratory, titled the flight historic.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We are ecstatic to have accomplished many of the X-51A Waverider test points during its first hypersonic mission,&#8221; <\/em>Brink stated. <em>&#8220;We equate this leap in engine technology as equivalent to the post-World War II jump from propeller-driven aircraft to jet engines.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Mach 6 speed of sound, that\u2019s how the scramjet-powere X-51A Waverider is defined!<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/technology\/2010\/speed-of-sound-scramjet-x-51a-waverider-overpowered-mach-1\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Speed Of Sound; Scramjet X-51A Waverider overpowered Mach 1'>Speed Of Sound; Scramjet X-51A Waverider overpowered Mach 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/technology\/2010\/speed-of-sound-the-x51a-waverider\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Speed Of Sound: The X51A Waverider'>Speed Of Sound: The X51A Waverider<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/technology\/2010\/air-force-launches-x-37b-space-plane\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Air Force Launches X-37B Space Plane'>Air Force Launches X-37B Space Plane<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sevensidedcube\/OXLF\/~4\/4pRJMi1Gfj8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-51A Waverider missile of US Air Force has sustained an amazing record of Mach 6. The nextgen-scramjet-technology-powered X-51A Waverider was launched over the southern California coast. A\u00a0remarkable speed of sound has been marked by\u00a0X-51A Waverider missile. The US Air Force affirmed that its X-51A Waverider cruise missile \u2013 a next-generation vehicle powered by scramjet technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}