Fighter aircraft of the United States Air Force record-breaking hypersonic speed, with six mach - speed of the aircraft units - in three minutes more. Tests conducted in airspace off the coast of southern California, United States, recently.In the release of his official site, a spokesman for the U.S. Air Force said the plane X-51A prototype missile-shaped Waverider released from Stratofortres B 52 bomber and flew for 200 seconds faster. Having successfully exceeded the target speed, the X-51A aircraft detonated Waverider automatically.
This test hypersonic Scramjet beat the previous record which can only survive 12 seconds, "said U.S. Air Force spokesman biacara." We are delighted with the success of the X-51A test. This is the first hypersonic mission. "
Researchers at the U.S. Air Force laboratories Charlie Brink described the success as a technological leap, the technology transfer as if the propeller plane into a jet engine during World War II past.
Along with that, U.S. Air Force continues to expand its war equipment to the civil aviation companies, including the X-51A aircraft Waverider. The aircraft was designed with companies and airlines Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Boeing Co.. Planned, hypersonic aircraft is still undergoing testing three times again until the end of this year
