The X-15 was the vaunted hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft that the USAF and NASA ... at which point the airframe’s hydrogen fueled, air breathing ram/scramjet (mounted in the belly of the ...

It was called the NASA/USAF X-15 and it was an experimental aircraft designed by Nasa and the United States Air Force for a hypersonic research program. The X-15 broke records when reaching the ...

In the joint X-15 hypersonic research program that NASA conducted with the Air Force, the Navy, and North American Aviation the aircraft flew over a period of nearly 10 years and set unofficial ...

While all commercial airliners operate at subsonic speeds (save for the now-retired Concorde), military aircraft routinely operate at supersonic (and hypersonic ... the X-15 is the fastest ...

If China can pull off large-scale production of such a plane, it would revolutionize international air travel as we know it.

How to design a hypersonic ... of airframe to the maximum extent. Moreover, the popular internal waverider inlet is also suited to the nose inlet layout. The ventral inlet layout is the most commonly ...