Operations and monitor the more "global" may be the future goal of the international community’s efforts. BEIJING, May 27 Xinhua comprehensive news, the U.S. hypersonic X51A flight test machine local time on the 26th, in the southern Pacific coast of California, successfully completed flight. Air Force officials said the four tests of the test is the first time, made do
On success. The flight was that the use of hydrocarbon fuel engine powered the first flight press. X51 flight test aircraft also use airbreathing engine aircraft launch system will be a key step. It will provide the U.S. a new "global, fast attack" capabilities. Compared with the use of rocket engines, X51A uses a suctiontype scramjet engine, the efficiency of
The higher, farther, the load carrying more weight. Because of this the engine absorb oxygen from the air to keep the advance, do not like the rocket engine must be carried as hold a very large launch weight of the fuel and oxidizer. Analysts pointed out, X51A mature, one can launch satellites into space, delivering supplies, the U.S. Air Force’s