REN+YU+-+HYPERSONIC+FLIGHT

Back to YEAR 8 MP SCIENCE NEWSPAPER 2010 =USAF VEHICLE BR **EAKS RECORD FOR HYPERSONIC FLIGHT** = ==== An experimental aircraft called the Boeing X-51 set a record for hypersonic flight. It is a hypersonic plane made by the United States Air Force and is unmanned. It can fly at more than 3 minutes at Mach 6, 6 times the speed of sound. Which equals to about 6400km/h. The hyper sonic planes was launched by a B52 from a altitude of 15.2km then released from the wing of the B52. The Boeing X-51 has a scramjet engine and it flew 200 seconds automatically before losing acceleration and the test was terminated. By: Kong Ren Yu ====