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

[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

[Rob Silliman]

YouTube video of the launch off of the B-52;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZUwKX3_uE4

[Dave S.]

Found this animation/simulation of the flight on YouTube as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aNsbb4_C9A&feature=player_embedded#!

[redsox223]

Thanks for sharing, thats pretty damn fast.