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The first manufactured object to achieve hypersonic flight was the two-stage Bumper rocket, consisting of a WAC Corporal second stage set on top of a V-2 first stage. In February 1949, at White Sands, the rocket reached a speed of 8,290 km/h (5,150 mph), or about Mach 6.7. [2]
Artist's concept of X-43A with scramjet attached to the underside NASA's B-52B launch aircraft takes off carrying the X-43A hypersonic research vehicle (March 27, 2004) The X-43A aircraft was a small unpiloted test vehicle measuring just over 3.7 m (12 ft) in length. [4]
The waverider remains a well-studied design for high-speed aircraft in the Mach 5 and higher hypersonic regime, although no such design has yet entered production. The Boeing X-51 scramjet demonstration aircraft was tested from 2010 to 2013. In its final test flight, it reached a speed of Mach 5.1 (5,400 km/h; 3,400 mph).
In Hermeus’s hypersonic design, a ramjet, which can only operate at high speeds as it uses this air to pressurize air and fuel in the combustion chamber, kicks in and carries the theoretical ...
Simulation of hypersonic speed (Mach 5) While the definition of hypersonic flow can be quite vague and is generally debatable (especially because of the absence of discontinuity between supersonic and hypersonic flows), a hypersonic flow may be characterized by certain physical phenomena that can no longer be analytically discounted as in supersonic flow.
The Silbervogel was the first design for a hypersonic weapon and was developed by German scientists in the 1930s, but was never constructed. [6]The ASALM (Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile) was a medium-range strategic missile program developed in the late 1970s for the United States Air Force; the missile's development reached the stage of propulsion-system testing, test-flown to Mach 5 ...
The Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, is a joint project between the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and test air-launched ...
Strictly speaking, hypersonic weapons are those that equal or exceed speeds equivalent to five times the speed of sound. But in modern usage, the term usually refers to two specific kinds of weapon.