The X-51A test vehicle is expected to evolve into missiles capable of flying at Mach 6 - or six times the speed of sound - enabling them to hit mobile "time-critical" targets. Scramjets also may ...

Doctoral student Max Chern takes a closer look at the wind tunnel setup where University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science researchers demonstrated that control of a dual-mode ...

Ramjet missiles, due to their use of abundant air, are the ideal propulsion system for high speed aircraft, missiles, and other objects. Nammo has finished tests of its new ramjet engine. Missiles and ...

A Purdue University aerospace researcher helped shape plans to install a new experiment currently on the space shuttle Discovery to collect data for controlling deadly friction and heating in the ...

European defense companies are eyeing a possible breakthrough in hypersonic engine technology by researchers at the University of Rome, who say lithium hydride is a potential fuel for scramjets. Fuel ...

It confirmed that scramjets can operate where rockets once had the field to themselves,” said Harry J. Kazianis, citing the technological hubris of NASA’s X-43A Hyper-X program. In 2004, the ...

Though it is still in the stage of wind-tunnel studies and drawing-board proposals, the much-heralded U.S. supersonic transport, which is scheduled to carry 150 passengers at speeds up to 1,900 m.p.h.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - By using the only wind tunnel capable of running quietly at "hypersonic" speeds, Purdue University engineers have conducted experiments to yield critical data for designing an ...