Air Force X51-A, Mach 5 hypersonic flight record

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Air Force X51-A, Mach 5 hypersonic flight record

27 May 2010, 02:02 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37377401...storyContinued

An experimental aircraft has set a new record for the longest hypersonic flight after streaking across the sky Wednesday for more than three minutes while flying at Mach 5 ? five times the speed of sound ? the United States Air Force has announced.

Now that's cooking!
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27 May 2010, 02:43 PM

wonder how it lands

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27 May 2010, 03:28 PM

It doesn't. It spashed in the Pacific... article said they had no plans to recover it.

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