hypersonic

Man, this thing is too big for any of my airports... Making of:

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Was this a genuine design or just something the marketing department dreamt up? (It looks pretty outlandish to me) View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/54514653236/in/album-72177720325013375

I was re-reading my copy of the fine book British Secret Projects: Hypersonics, Ramjets & Missiles by the noted Chris Gibson and Tony Buttler (Midland, 2007) recently. On pages 160 through 162, the authors discuss British (paper) studies from the 1960's about weight and drag reduction by jet...

DARPA NextRS "Y-plane" hypersonic strike concept: 30,000-38,000 lbf TBCC Conventional fuel Metallic construction https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/darpa-eyes-hypersonic-striker-air-force-studies-long-term-options (May be paywalled.)

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-b-21-stealth-bomber/ I called this last year and got a ton of shit for it.

Award for National University of Defense Technology for their contribution in achieving stable transient combustion of scramjet engine during change (speed, altitude, direction,) in flight conditions. 3 years ago, ground test China’s hypersonic cruise missile sees technological breakthrough...

First time I’ve really posted on the forum. I’ve enjoyed reading and learning a lot though for a few years..The Isinglass thread here really inspired me and now my CAD skills are reasonable-ish I thought I’d have a go at modelling and printing this enigmatic design. I’ve basically tried to...

Thanks to the ever-vigilant Mark Nankivil, we have a number of McDonnell-Douglas Advanced Design sketches to identify. I think I can figure out a few, but I thought it might be fun to let everyone have a go at this game. I'll post one design per post, so we can move them to the correct topics...

LOL. Looks like this company didn't shy away from getting a bit creative with the naming scheme, because of course a drone that proudly displays a "SEXBOMB" livery traveling at hypersonic speeds while the surface temperature of its skin raises sounds sexy :D...

I hope that image is production art for the movie, not a final product. That white spraypaint "aging" looks freakin' low effort.

This doesn't really fit ARRW or PGSW, so I started a new thread.

I heard rumors about and little bits of info on successors to the LRI-X interceptors that were hypersonic and had missiles with a range of 500 miles is there any info on them like blueprints and performance information?

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/oblique-wave-detonation-engine-hypersonic-ucf/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/hermeus-announces-plan-to-build-the-fastest-aircraft-in-the-world/ Pretty nebulous right now, which is why I didn't post this in Projects. The usual insanely ambitious timeline that they will fail to meet, while blowing through multiple rounds of VC funding.

LSS, glider, first flight scheduled for 2021....Any French lads want to chime in? My French is rusty and I might be misinterpreting this.

Just starting a generic thread here to discuss possibilities and programs. Saw the following in an AvWeek article: "These include a new family of interceptor missiles called SkyFire proposed by Raytheon; hypervelocity projectiles designed by General Atomics, Boeing and BAE Systems; a laser gun...

Just trying to keep them straight. So we have (pulled from a couple different articles recently posted): 1. AGM-183A - Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW). "The ARRW, like many of the emerging threats, is an air-launched, rocket-boosted unpowered hypersonic glider. To be developed under...

http://m.aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/boeing-unveils-hypersonic-airliner-concept This is more easily accessible article on the hypersonic airliner from Boeing than the AW one. It also has some different quotage...

This is just a little thought exercise in a 'what-if' scenario for a hypersonic flight research program. The US efforts to develop a hypersonic aircraft design in the 1950's (Aerospaceplace, X-15), 1960's (X-20, Lifting Bodies), and 1970's (X-24C, HYFAC) culminated, for a time, in the USAF and...