"In a secluded laboratory, a cadre of America's most brilliant engineers and military strategists converged to give life to an unprecedented marvel of modern warfare: the Boeing X-51 Waverider. This ...
Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Son of Blackbird or “Darkstar” aims to replace the SR-71 with hypersonic ISR—and possibly strike—using a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) that blends a turbofan for ...
GE Aerospace tested its solid-fuel ramjet system at supersonic speeds on a Starfighter F-104 over Kennedy Space Center, a ...
The Langley Research Center maintained an active hypersonic research program from the early days of the formation of NASA in 1958. The goals of the Hypersonic Research Engine (HRE) project, which ...