On Wednesday morning, a US Air Force X-51A Waverider missile sustained speeds of Mach 5 for more than 200 seconds, the US Air Force has announced. The X-51A Waverider, which was launched over the ...

And sooner than you think, it could be coming to an airport near you. What exactly is a scramjet? Short for "supersonic combustion ramjet," a scramjet is, at its core, an engine technology aimed ...

MHD scramjet The MHD ramjet/scramjet has some similarities with the Skylon concept. The MHD ramjet/scramjet could use reduced heat by slowing the air down to keep the weight of the vehicle from ...

Scientists score scramjet success Scramjets could power advanced hypersonic aircraft By BBC News Online science editor Dr David Whitehouse The first ever free flight of a scramjet - a revolutionary ...

Scramjet electrical wiring may not have been part of Bert’s job description in the “picture business,” which he entered back when biplanes served the more isolated towns in his vast territory.

In northeast Australia, a scramjet team funded by the U.S. and Australian armed forces will try for Mach 10 next year as a first step in using a scramjet to put satellites in space.

Trained by Michelle Nevin, Skyler’s Scramjet earned the top Equibase Speed Figure of the week Dec. 22 at Aqueduct Racetrack when he patiently waited for racing room in the turn before being ...

Scramjet hypersonic cruise missiles are not as fast as the boost-glide variety, but can be smaller because they scoop oxygen from the atmosphere, instead of carrying it, as do booster rockets.

Designed and built in Brisbane, Australia by the University of Queensland (UQ), the Scramspace is a hypersonic scramjet that will be fired by rocket in the Arctic Circle, where it will very ...

They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker.

Skyler's Scramjet and Gold for the King, who have each won four times at the Big A, will duke it out against three foes in the Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct Jan. 19.