NASA's Mach 9.6 X-43A 'Hypersonic Scramjet' Is Still An Engineering Marvel

NASA's experimental X-43A didn't have a pilot and couldn't fly independently, but its blisteringly high speeds showed that hypersonic flight was possible.
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Ramjet Vs. Scramjet: What's The Difference Between These Jet Engines?

A jet engine is any engine that can propel an aircraft of some kind via rearward expulsion of a jet of fluid, typically a hot exhaust gas that the engine generates by drawing in fuel from the ...
Purdue University

PARI students successfully test full-scale, additively manufactured scramjet

Will DeVerter, a graduate research assistant in the Purdue Applied Research Institute’s Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center (HAMTC), prepares his team’s 3D printed scramjet for ...
Nature

Supersonic Combustion and Scramjet Engine Dynamics

Supersonic combustion and scramjet engine dynamics represent a frontier in aerospace propulsion, offering a pathway to ultra‐high-speed flight through the efficient combustion of fuel in a supersonic ...
NPR

NASA's 'Scramjet': How the Ultra-Fast Jet Engine Works

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1829839/1829840" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> NPR's ...
C4ISRNET

From parts to hypersonics, Pentagon sees 3D printing as ‘game changer’

The Pentagon said 3D printing can better allow hypersonic manufacturers to create scramjet components requiring complex shapes. The Air Force and DARPA's Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or ...