Did anyone watch Nasa’s unmanned plane go past mach 6. I believe sometime next week They will try to get the plane to go past mach 10.
mark956
Heard it on the news, have not seen it though. I heard it went to Mach 7. At least that’s what ABC news says, they would never be wrong would they? lol
Is that the Hyper X ?
That’s flat out moving!
Yup, I just seen on Yahoo news 5000mph. I do not know the name of the plane.
mark956
What kind of propulsion does that thing have?
DJ
I’ve seen something that moves faster than that! You should see how fast a car salesman can move to avoid having to check in cars when a loaded transporter shows up!!!
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whats the difference with a small unmanned plane (the size of a missle) and a missle?
the thing is too small for anyone to fit in and the booster rocket is massive
heres a picture of the rocket (the white bit) and the unmanned plane (the little black bit at the end)
It uses an engine called a scram jet. It’s not rocket powered at all. That was the reason for the big news. No non-rocket powered craft has ever flown that fast. Sure would have made my comute alot easier a few years ago.
Yes it went to mach 7 (for 11 seconds at about 100,000 ft) and was ditched in the Pacific and retrieved. No chance of another flight next week in this plane after an ocean bath. This was a replacement for the similar plane that misfunctioned and was exploded in 2001.
It’s fantastic news, and so close to the 100th aniversary of the Wright brothers’ flight, too! They’d be proud.
Next, we have to break the warp barrier![:D]
It’s fantastic - Nasa used Australian based technology to create a working SCRAM jet - (we did it last year on a much smaller vehicle) - but what an achievement.
Mach 7 - they believe it would take two hours to fly from Sydney to London at that speed.
Amazing stuff.
…imagine hitting a goose at full chat though…