X-43A flight this Saturday. (27th)

Stick to Fox Spectre.I'm on a cable connection and the video quality has pixelated and decreased alot,though audio is still good.

I'm watching it on WiMP. Is it me or is the quality dropping? Maybe the same-colour, same-tone areas of sky are just making the compression software decide to make it extra blocky? Who's watching it on Realplayer?

It's defiantly getting worse.

Lampy,i'm on realplayer and the higher the B-52 has flown the worse the video gets.

Yeah they mentioned ita few minutes ago, they lost one camara or something, they mentioned the F-18 chase plane.
I couldn't hear what they exactly...

i have both players open at once, both windows and real player at once, real player is better so far guys not so much static then windows and plus windows is late by like 2-3 minutes im guessing.

Yeah, I noticed when they switched to the control room, the screen with the chase camera view was showing the same chop. Must be out of range, bad signal or something. Now, it seems to have cleared up.

The audio is better in the windoze version

I'm watching this feed and can't seem to figure out if this X-43A is manned or not? Someone fill me in please I thought I read somewhere that it was manned, but I am beginning to think it's not.

Edit: Doesn't seem possible to be manned. No windows etc. lol but never know.

[Edited on 27-3-2004 by pyxsul]

It is unmanned

Two minutes to go!
GO FOR LAUNCH!

[Edited on 27-3-2004 by Zion Mainframe]

3 minutes to launch....Wooooohhhoooooo

It’s unmanned.

WOOHOOO successfull test flight!

Looks like it worked!It didn't explode.Dudes in control room are clapping.

its unmanned, i noticed it when they were fixing it into the wing the people were bigger then it and i knew right away that it was unmanned. I have some awesome screen shots that ill post in a bit .

they lost (some) flight data...

but it did pass Mach 5!

Man! My picture froze just after it passed Mach 3 - but there wasn't much to see anyway. Successful flight! ALL RIGHT! WAY TO GO!!! Just like the good ol' days of the X-15...

I wonder if it ever hit its mach 7 target. Sucks that they lost some data where it would of been mach 7 apparently, or as I took it.

RV(X-43) has entered the water!

I wonder why a Blackbird wasn't used as a chase plane in this test.I know it wouldn't totally keep up with it but at least get a better picture.