Nasa jet set for speed record bid
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An &quot;air-breathing&quot; test plane will attempt to break a world speed record for the second time in a year by flying at nearly 10 times the speed of sound.
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TRANSATLANTIC travellers could be in the US in minutes rather than hours after a supersonic jet screamed into the record books. The unmanned NASA jet reached speeds of almost 7,000 mph
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NASA is hoping to break new speed records later today when it will set loose its third X-43A &quot;scramjet&#39;&#39; over the Pacific Ocean.
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If all goes as scheduled Monday afternoon, NASA will set another flight-speed record with its X-43A hypersonic, scramjet research aircraft.
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NASA&#39;s X-43 unmanned aircraft hit a record 6,600 mph Tuesday in the program&#39;s final test flight, providing researchers with data for use on future ultra-high-speed aircraft and spacecraft.
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A pioneering aviation company will attempt to rocket into space on Wednesday in a bid to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize. The prize will go to the first non-governmental vehicle that can ferry three people
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Adventurer Steve Fossett is set to fly an experimental jet around the world without stopping or refuelling.
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An experimental pilotless jet will today attempt to break the world speed record by reaching 7,000mph - the equivalent of two miles per second.
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NASA will make a second attempt today to set an aviation speed record after an instrumentation problem forced the agency to scrap a planned flight test Monday.
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A tiny unmanned NASA &quot;scramjet&quot; soared above the Pacific Ocean yesterday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a record-breaking demonstration of a radical new engine technology.
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NASA&#39;s X-43A scramjet will on Monday undergo its third test flight during which scientists will attempt to push the vehicle to Mach 10.
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NASA plans to try to set a world speed record for jets with the flight of a pilotless vehicle that culminates a decades-long research program into hypersonic flight.
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Nasa is due to launch an experimental jet over the Pacific today in a bid to reach a record 7,000 mph. The first X-43A flight failed in June 2001 when the booster rocket used to accelerate it to flight speed veered off course and had to be destroyed.
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Rocket plane SpaceShipOne is to attempt a second space flight on Monday in a bid to clinch the $10m Ansari X-Prize. Judges officially confirmed that pilot Mike Melvill took the craft to 103km (64 miles) on Wednesday&#39;s first flight.
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NASA's X-43A 'scramjet' now holds the jet aircraft speed record after hitting a top speed of Mach 9.6, or nearly 6,600 mph. Engineers say the technology could find its way into military and commercial aircraft. By Amit Asaravala.
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Engineers for the space agency's experimental X-43A project prepare to break the aircraft speed record. But the hypersonic jet flight could be NASA's last. By Amit Asaravala.
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NASA plans to break the aircraft speed record for the second time in 7 1/2 months next week, by flying its X43a scramjet 110,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean at speeds close to Mach 10.