{"id":582605,"date":"2010-05-27T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T02:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/boeing-x-51-waverider-hypersonic-flight\/15241\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T22:38:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T02:38:45","slug":"x-51a-waverider-breaks-supersonic-flight-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582605","title":{"rendered":"X-51A Waverider breaks supersonic flight record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c0378172.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/x-51-waverider.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Air Force graphic of the record breaking\tX-51A Waverider\"><\/p>\n<p>Boeing&#8217;s X-51 WaveRider has made aviation history by completing the longest ever supersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight. The unmanned aerial vehicle (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/uav\" >UAV<\/a>) flew for almost three and a half minutes in the skies off the southern California coast on Wednesday, reaching an altitude of about 70,000 feet and hitting hypersonic (Mach 5) speeds&#8230;<br \/>\nContinue Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/boeing-x-51-waverider-hypersonic-flight\/15241\/\">X-51A Waverider breaks supersonic flight record<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/boeing\/\" rel=\"tag\">Boeing<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/darpa\/\" rel=\"tag\">DARPA<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/hypersonic\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hypersonic<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/pratt+&#038;+whitney\/\" rel=\"tag\">Pratt &amp; Whitney<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/uav\/\" rel=\"tag\">UAV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Related Articles:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/7445\/\">Successful Hypersonic Scramjet flight tests in Australia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/3270\/\">NASA&#8217;s X-43A Scramjet Breaks Speed Record &#8211; again!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/falcon-hypersonic-technology-vehicle-2-test-flight\/15044\/\">Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) test flight<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/5607\/\">Japan to fast track Supersonic Airliner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/boeing-active-flow-technology\/8422\/\">Active flow control technology allows Boeing to deploy munitions at Mach 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/f-35-fifth-gen-fighter-breaks-sound-barrier\/10389\/\">F-35 Lightning II breaks sound barrier<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SeiD4vNldjCFWQ_V1H78UktFBVE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SeiD4vNldjCFWQ_V1H78UktFBVE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SeiD4vNldjCFWQ_V1H78UktFBVE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SeiD4vNldjCFWQ_V1H78UktFBVE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=o6reiRcbSQk:clX1I0z3Q5g:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=o6reiRcbSQk:clX1I0z3Q5g:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=o6reiRcbSQk:clX1I0z3Q5g:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?i=o6reiRcbSQk:clX1I0z3Q5g:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=o6reiRcbSQk:clX1I0z3Q5g:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?i=o6reiRcbSQk:clX1I0z3Q5g:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=o6reiRcbSQk:clX1I0z3Q5g:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine\/~4\/o6reiRcbSQk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing&#8217;s X-51 WaveRider has made aviation history by completing the longest ever supersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight. 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