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X-51A Waverider reaches Mach 5 in 140 seconds...

Started by Dave S., May 26, 2010, 05:21:51 PM

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Dave S.

The company I used to work for developed and supplied the fuel controls that were used on the X-51A Waverider (they also developed and supplied the fuel & ignitor valves for NASA's X-43 Hyper-X research vehicle).  Needless to say, today's flight was a phenomenal accomplishment.  Here's a brief article about the flight from Flightglobal.com:

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/05/27/342468/x-51a-waverider-reaches-mach-5-in-140-second-scramjet.html

- Dave

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