Now that's fast.

[he7lius]

U probably already read this but here are a few link u may have a look.

http://www.vic.karoo.net/images/X-43A.jpg

This website is very good and u may like the Auto Stuff section.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/hypersonic-plane.htm

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.html
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Graphics/Hyper-X/Small/X-43A-engine-comparison.jpg

[Junk2006]

I could do better all you have to do is believe

[hemi_fan]

I could do better all you have to do is believe

^^WTF!?!?!^^

[aliendude012]

Old news. Just keep in mind, anything being released today, was designed, built, and tested already years ago. now its just that much closer to being produced and used.


keep in mind the SR71 Lockheede Blackbird. This was developed in the early 50s. EARLY 50s!!! A time when the war was over less than ten years, propellors ruled the air, and jets were just coming into their own. This is the same time a handful of wierdos with thick glasses and thick beards created a plane capable of altitudes in excess of 100,000 feet and speeds in excess of Mach 3. For the record, i've done research on both the blackbird, and lockheede's top secret division, Skunk Works. official records for the blackbird list maximum achieved top speed just over mach 3 and maximum achieved altitude a tad over 80,000 feet. Pilots say that they have gotten closer to Mach 3.5(half a mach is a big difference) and in excess of 125,000ft of altitude. this in its prime in the 70s and early 80s before it was decommisioned in the early 90s. :(

[FerrariKiller]

Old news. Just keep in mind, anything being released today, was designed, built, and tested already years ago. now its just that much closer to being produced and used.


Watch out for big scary NASA, who knows what they aren't telling us...
Yeah :roll:
(this is the first smiley I've ever used, I'm not proud)

[aliendude012]

I'll bet you that thing has flown over your house a few times and you wouldnt even know it. And maybe NASA doesnt keep things confidential(ill use the same smiley: :roll: ) But the government, and especially the military, does. Who funds NASA? Oh yea, the gov't, us. Watch out. :wink:

[levensnevel]

Anyway,

loads of interesting X43A vids on that NASA website :fadein:

[he7lius]

I'm not saying this is new the only thing i said was that it was fast, independently from the 50's, 60's or 70's.

7,700 km/h (4,780 mph), Mach 7 :shock: - Very Very Fast
Previous record for jet held by SR-71 'Blackbird' spy plane, flying at Mach 3.2
Experimental X-15 plane flew at Mach 6.7, with rocket engine.

And I seen a article where they tested in a lab at Mach 15. :shock:

From Star Trek:
"Data step on it" :D

[Anonymous]

JunkFace wrote:
I could do better all you have to do is believe


^^WTF!?!?!^^



HA HA i agree

Quote:

Old news. Just keep in mind, anything being released today, was designed, built, and tested already years ago. now its just that much closer to being produced and used.



Watch out for big scary NASA, who knows what they aren't telling us...
Yeah
(this is the first smiley I've ever used, I'm not proud)


ferrari killar what happen to you sig didnt you have the horse that was getting his head chopped off by a gt40?

[Fleischmann]

Old news. Just keep in mind, anything being released today, was designed, built, and tested already years ago. now its just that much closer to being produced and used.


keep in mind the SR71 Lockheede Blackbird. This was developed in the early 50s. EARLY 50s!!! A time when the war was over less than ten years, propellors ruled the air, and jets were just coming into their own. This is the same time a handful of wierdos with thick glasses and thick beards created a plane capable of altitudes in excess of 100,000 feet and speeds in excess of Mach 3. For the record, i've done research on both the blackbird, and lockheede's top secret division, Skunk Works. official records for the blackbird list maximum achieved top speed just over mach 3 and maximum achieved altitude a tad over 80,000 feet. Pilots say that they have gotten closer to Mach 3.5(half a mach is a big difference) and in excess of 125,000ft of altitude. this in its prime in the 70s and early 80s before it was decommisioned in the early 90s. :(

As far as I know, the official record actually belongs to the Russian Mig 25RB Foxbat, I think it's stated in the guiness book of records.


EDIT - Sorry...just checked on their site...the Mikoyan-Gurewicz is no2 :) USA 1 : Russia 0

[yg60m]

Saw it on tv news, that's impressive, that could be the future to replace the Concord by a subsonic plane

[nthfinity]

:-D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
score 1 aero- engineering
score 0 the limit

some of you may remember me speaking of this very experimental vehicle before...
for the record...
the x-43a was develped after the x-42? (SSTO space shuttle replacement) idea was scrapped due to overwheming cost potential and budget cuts.
it cannot ignite properly until a sufficiant supersonic airflow has been atcheived within the nozzle (likely to need to go approx 3000mph+)
carries only enough feul to power itself for a very short duration (less then 15 seconds)
uses liquid coolant under titanium skin. at the time, in 2001 for the first failed test, they were using liquid nitrogen. a russian engineering standpoint might be to use the already available liquid h2 to cool the craft.
is desgined to crash into the ocean and be unrecoverable.

supposedly, via a reliable contractor, the SR-71 can atchieve speeds close to, and even higher then this.
like the x-43, the SR-71 has no moving parts in the engine, and doesnt in fact burn any fuel in the engine
the blackbird began develpment in 1957, or 8... shortly after a U-2 was shot down over the USSR, a working model was ready for testing by 1963 known as a YF-12C, and the SR's first major aknolegment of existance was due to the cuban missle crisis...
there was another aircraft created for the same purposes known as the XB-70A. the XB was scrapped due to excessive fuel consumption below mach 3 (sound familiar?) but more likely due to exsessive thermal loads on the leading edges.

[YellowMaranello]

I could out run it.

[PATo355]

I could out run it.

Yeah sure ....

[crazidude]

Heh I remember reading about this a few years ago. I can't remember the name of the airplane, but I'm pretty sure it isn't the Blackbird. I remember seeing some plane on TLC that went liek Mach 6 or 7, but that thing was flown in space or something.

[saadie]

The SR71 Lockheede Blackbird was decommisioned in the early 90s. :(

its offically decommisioned .... its still flying ........

do u know the story when it was firse seen ....... after tht it was offically decommisioned .......... but it was still flying ......... and when it was seen again ...... it was again offically decommissioned ...... :roll: ..

Heh I remember reading about this a few years ago. I can't remember the name of the airplane, but I'm pretty sure it isn't the Blackbird. I remember seeing some plane on TLC that went liek Mach 6 or 7, but that thing was flown in space or something.

this is an X plane ...... X means Experimental , Y means prototype ....its name is X 43 .. its got abt 2 varients X 43A and X 43B ..
it was flown before ...... at about mach 10. something ... it blew up ....
and yah ... it wasnt flown in space ....

[aliendude012]

well they're flown at well over 100,000ft of altitude. if gets iffy up there as to whether your still in our atmosphere or in space.


And in the early 90s(93 maybe?) it was decommisioned for the last time. All of the existing sr-71 aircraft are accounted for and on display in air museums or outside of airbases across the country. the few that still fly belong to Nasa, are research aircraft, and are stationed at the dryden flight research center, adjacent to edwards AFB. unless you know of some top secret wing of blackbirds, theyve all had their wings clipped.

I find it ridiculous too. this is one of the most successful planes we;ve ever built. i think it was money very well spent. it can do anything you dream of when it comes to reconnisance, yet it was deamed too costly and then shipped off to museums around the country. but we still use the u2. the fucking u2! its made of aluminum foil, flies at 60k ft going like 5 knots, and uses a frigging camcorder! come on, the united states of america can get a little more efficient than that.



but for any of you other black budget conspiracy theorists out there, rumours for years have said we;'re workign on the blackbirds successor, codenamed 'aurora.' capable of mach 8+ and 200,000ft+. this could be it, as a matter of fact. it uses hyperjet technology.