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NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Collection
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NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Collection
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Attached to the same B-52B mothership that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA's third X-43A performed a captive carry evaluation flight from Edwards Air Force Base, California on September 27, 2004. The X-43 remained mated to the B-52 throughout this mission, intended to check its readiness for launch scheduled later in the fall.
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Attached to the same B-52B mothership that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA's third X-43A performed a captive carry evaluation flight from Edwards Air Force Base, California on September 27, 2004. The X-43 remained mated to the B-52 throughout this mission, intended to check its readiness for launch scheduled later in the fall.
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The X-43A is powered by a revolutionary supersonic-combustio n ramjet - or "scramjet" - engine. If successful, the Mach 10 flight will break all speed records for an aircraft powered by an air-breathing engine.
The X-43 is part of the Hyper-X hypersonic research program led by NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, and operated jointly by NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., and Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. The program aims to demonstrate air-breathing engine technologies that promise to increase payload capacity - or reduce vehicle size for the same payload - for future hypersonic aircraft and reusable space launch vehicles.
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The X-43A is powered by a revolutionary supersonic-combustio n ramjet - or "scramjet" - engine. If successful, the Mach 10 flight will break all speed records for an aircraft powered by an air-breathing engine.
The X-43 is part of the Hyper-X hypersonic research program led by NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, and operated jointly by NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., and Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. The program aims to demonstrate air-breathing engine technologies that promise to increase payload capacity - or reduce vehicle size for the same payload - for future hypersonic aircraft and reusable space launch vehicles.
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September 27, 2004
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September 27, 2004
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NASA Photo by:
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Tom Tschida
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Tom Tschida
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California
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California
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Edwards Air Force Base
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Edwards Air Force Base
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Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
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Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
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Langley Research Center (LaRC)
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Langley Research Center (LaRC)
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September 27, 2004
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September 27, 2004
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2004
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2004
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ED04-0261-1
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ED04-0261-1
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SPD-DRYDEN-ED04-0261 -1
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SPD-DRYDEN-ED04-0261 -1
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