SCI/TECH: X-43A Mach 10 Flight Succesful!

10 minutes till launch.

Getting ready to launch...Woooohhhhooo

Woooohhhooooo....Successful flight!

Ok i heard a Mach 9.6 speed being reached.

I'm surprised no one has posted pics from the Nov 16th event...
Here ya go~






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Great pix Intelgurl.It was a great flight,watched it on webcast.I also saw the news conference afterwards and the interesting thing mentioned was,if research was continued,to build a turbo jet/scramjet test prototype that would take off under its own power and fly supersonic to hypersonic.

Dryden Flight Research Center
X-43A, Nasa
Langley Research Center

few links if these have not already been posted good to hear it was a good run for the X-43A and yet it can be used in so many ways airplane, satellites in space, and even a cruise missile. Good to know that Huh.

I would just like to say that this is amazing. Yet another record broke by the Yankee Doodle Doos. This is what people should remember about American People, not what's happening in the war. This to me is the true spirit of the American Dream. Pushing the boundaries of science and completing the goal. If Phileas Fogg was alive today, he would be in Shock and Awe!



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Cool, there not going to collect it, right I claim salvage rights. That thing is going to look mint on my mantle piece.

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