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2004-03-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Stay tuned: NASA's X-43A Vehicle Ready For 2nd Flight - Mar 27th

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Posted by .com 2004-03-27 13:40|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Would the pilot's name be John Crichton by any chance?

Posted by eLarson 2004-03-27 3:11:40 PM|| 2004-03-27 3:11:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 B-52 is now rolling - live on Fox...

Posted by .com 2004-03-27 3:11:50 PM|| 2004-03-27 3:11:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Online coverage here... GlobalSecurity.org

Posted by .com 2004-03-27 3:17:53 PM|| 2004-03-27 3:17:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 F-18 Chase Planes lifing off...

Posted by .com 2004-03-27 3:37:19 PM|| 2004-03-27 3:37:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Buff lifting off... should be visual coverage of ScramJet firing in approx 30 minutes...

Posted by .com 2004-03-27 3:39:29 PM|| 2004-03-27 3:39:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Cool... Appears to have been successful - given the applause by controllers at NASA. Details when available.

Bumble bees, props, jets, ram jets... scramjets. I would call this yet another achievement, but I'm sure Mohammad covered this somewhere in the Qu'uran.

Posted by .com 2004-03-27 5:09:06 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:09:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 fooooooooooooooo. I missed it all! I shall do a night launch of the Aerobee if it was sucessful.

Posted by Shipman 2004-03-27 5:12:41 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:12:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 he did: shura 7 - "and death rained down on us at Mach 7..."

Posted by Frank G 2004-03-27 5:13:09 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:13:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL! And, from the GlobalSecurity site, is ONE use for this propulsion technology:

"The DARPA/Air Force vision for FALCON is to develop, by 2025, a reusable hypersonic cruise vehicle that could take off from a conventional military runway and strike targets 9,000 nautical miles away in less than two hours. Flying at speeds up to eight times the speed of sound (Mach 8), the hypersonic cruise vehicle would carry a 12,000-pound payload comprising several unpowered, maneuverable, hypersonic glide vehicles called common aero vehicles; cruise missiles; small diameter bombs or other munitions. Each common aero vehicle would carry approximately 1,000 pounds in munitions."

Indeed - Sounds like Death From Above to me! Apologies to Air Cav...

Posted by .com 2004-03-27 5:19:51 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:19:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Damn I love the internet - watched online and gave a little cheer when they announced it was flying through Mach 5. They lost their data link with the craft shortly after but regained it at approximately Mach 1.4...

Great stuff!

Posted by Mark Onyschuk 2004-03-27 5:19:54 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:19:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 ...My Dad was part of the engine inlet redesign team before he left NASA - we were both watching it and he was giving me the play by play over the phone. Talk about freakin' awesome...:)

BTW - take that, you Jihadi a**holes..

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-03-27 5:50:57 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:50:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 4:00 PST Press Briefing... NASA TV here I think - requires Real Player (of course).

Posted by .com 2004-03-27 5:51:23 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:51:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Amen, Mark / Mike - awesome!

Posted by .com 2004-03-27 5:52:59 PM|| 2004-03-27 5:52:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 What we really need is a Moon Base with a Mass Driver that we can use to shoot Thor iron crowbars

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-03-27 6:53:16 PM|| 2004-03-27 6:53:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Top speed: "slightly over" Mach 7
Altitude: 95,000 ft - approx
Scramjet Burn: 11 seconds full throttle

Summary: mach 7 was reached, separation was clean, X-43A stabilized, scramjet fired on time, burned in all fuel mix tests (lean-rich range). Achieved positive acceleration after separation while climbing. Controlled flight of the vehicle all the way to the water. In essence, the scramjet concept and power output was fully vindicated. Differentiated X-43A flight from Australian, French, other tests of scramjets in that this was a separate stand-alone vehicle in controlled flight. A complete pkg; a ship proven capable of withstanding the regime of actual mach 7+ flight. It is unclear (to me) what these other countries did, exactly, in their scramjet engine tests.

Showing clip of flight now.

Posted by .com 2004-03-27 7:28:29 PM|| 2004-03-27 7:28:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 And here is the link from which you can get directly what the media will dumb-down for the great unwashed masses.

One more fact: This flight set a "world" record for an air-breathing engine -- by a factor of 2+, heh. It phreakin' rocked!

Posted by .com 2004-03-27 7:40:29 PM|| 2004-03-27 7:40:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 See who rules America? Due to censorship we inserted "*", delete them. http://A*DLUSA.com

Posted by Anonymous 2004-03-27 10:53:42 PM|| 2004-03-27 10:53:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Talk about air superiority.

Posted by Raptor 2004-03-28 8:18:08 AM|| 2004-03-28 8:18:08 AM|| Front Page Top

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