road to mach 10: lessons learned from the x-43a flight research program

ISBN-13: 9781563479328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 238 str.

Curtis Peebles

Opis

This is the first full-length test-flight history of the X-43 project, written by the project historian at Dryden Flight Research Center. The project achieved the first in-flight testing of a scramjet engine, at speeds of nearly Mach 7 and Mach 10.