On Tuesday (14/08/2012), the aircraft is piloted. The aircraft will be flown from Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, California, with a bomber wing. Then, the jet will be released from a height of 15.24 km near cape Point Mugu.
Once released, the engine in the aircraft will start to work and made the plane move up to 4.5 Mach or 5513 miles per hour in a few seconds. If all goes well, the aircraft can move up to speeds of Mach 6 or 7350 miles per hour and the ride height reaches 21.34 km.
This mission will run for 300 seconds, the longest flight the aircraft experienced. After that the aircraft would "crash" into the sea and there is no plan to save these great aircraft.
Hypersonic aircraft development project is funded by NASA and the Pentagon. Hopefully, the aircraft can be used for military purposes in the future. According to Globalsecurity.org, the funds needed to reach 89 million pounds.
Why did the plane quickly? There is a secret. Screamjet is airbreathing aircraft because the aircraft was not carrying fuel and oxygen, but only take the form of hydrogen fuel and "pull" the oxygen needed to burn in the atmosphere.
The air going into the front of the engine and the hydrogen is injected into the air stream. Compressed gas causes the temperature rise and combustion occurs. This produces a thrust that allows the jet to travel at high speeds.
Development of the aircraft is in line with the development of future aircraft, supersonic aircraft with a speed of more than 5 times the speed of sound. Development of supersonic as well as the evolution of the airplane propeller driven to jet aircraft.
Robert Mercier, deputy high speed system technology at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio, as quoted by the Daily Mail today said, "Since the Wright Brothers, we continue to strive to develop the aircraft better and faster. Hypersonic is one of the potential in flight. '
Currently, the fastest passenger aircraft is a Cessna Citation X is capable of reaching speeds of 1126 miles per hour or Mach 0.9, although only carry 7 passengers. Another Falcon 7X aircraft is the speed of 1102 km per hour and the speed Gulfstream G550 1086 miles per hour.
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