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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

X-51 Unstart May be Blessing in Disguise

After getting boosted out to start speed and separating cleanly, the aircraft failed to come up to full operation on JP-7.  The good news is that instrumentation and telemetry were working as advertised, so we may soon know a lot more than ever on how a scramjet actually lights and what it takes to correct it when it doesn't.  Stay tuned!

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/x51a_hypersonic_scramjet_test_204828-1.html

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