The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic vehicle, powered by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne’s scramjet engine, achieved aviation history today by making the longest-ever supersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight.

The world's first hydrogen-fueled hypersonic jet may be able to reach a simply astounding speed of 12 times the speed of ...

Supersonic combustion and scramjet engine dynamics represent a frontier in aerospace propulsion, offering a pathway to ultra‐high-speed flight through the efficient combustion of fuel in a supersonic ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Lockheed Martin team, an ...

testing at Mach 6.5 is expected to be completed later this month. This engine, known as the Ground Demonstration Engine (GDE-1), uses standard JP-7 fuel in an ...

STUDENT SCRAMJET: Aerospace engineering researchers and students at the University of Virginia will display a hypersonic “scramjet” engine prototype March 19. The research team is preparing to unveil ...

India has fired up a domestically developed scramjet engine as part of its pursuit of hypersonic missiles. The Hyderabad-based Defense Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL) ran an active-cooled ...

Summary and Key Points: The X-51 Waverider, an experimental hypersonic aircraft, reached speeds up to Mach 5.1 (3,400 mph). Launched in 2005 by Boeing Phantom Works with DARPA and Air Force Research ...

Doctoral student Max Chern takes a closer look at the wind tunnel setup where University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science researchers demonstrated that control of a dual-mode ...

A team at the Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI), the university’s research and development center, is using state-of-the-art additive-manufacturing equipment to print a full-scale, fully ...