The first scramjet powered by the jet fuel JP-10 has made its first free flight. The craft is being developed for use in missile warfare. It launched aboard a booster rocket from the Wallops ...

NPR's Madeleine Brand gets the word from Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Science Friday, about the new super-fast "scramjet" currently undergoing tests at NASA.

An experimental jet engine flew at speeds of up to 6,835 miles per hour, or 10 times the speed of sound. A supersonic scramjet engine launches in Woomera, South Australia.

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Traditionally, scramjet tests have involved strapping the craft to supersonic jets to get the jet up to speed -- not a very cost-effective solution.

HAMPTON, Va. -- 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. So fast it ...

NASA's third and last X-43A ``scramjet'' is set to streak over the Pacific Ocean on Monday at 7,000 mph for 10 or 11 seconds -- or 10 times the speed of sound.

Test of scramjet-powered X-51A engine [VIDEO] The US Air Force's experimental X-51A Waverider scramjet has set a new record for hypersonic travel.

Australian aerospace company Hypersonix said it received a technology demonstrator of the Spartan scramjet engine made in Europe ...