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First reported 21 mins ago - Updated 21 mins ago - 1 reports

Hypersonic Weapons Could Hit Battlefield by 2025

High-tech weapons may be screaming through the skies at five times the speed of sound by the middle of the next decade, U.S. military officials say.That's the most optimistic timeline for the battlefied debut of a superfast new strike capability, officials ... [Published Yahoo! News - 21 mins ago]

Entities: Hypersonic, scramjet, Speed of Sound, Joe Vogel

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

West Roxbury Poetry Contest winners

West Roxbury —The West Roxbury Branch Library’s 24th Annual Poetry Contest for all ages concluded last week with the awards cceremony sponsored by the Friends of the West Roxbury Library.In the K–Grade 2 category, the winner was Zach Litwinsky and honorable ... [Published Wicked Local Roslindale - May 08 2013]

Entities: Hari Narayanan, Ramjet, Sophia SA

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Cloud Peak Energy Inc

Japan, Taiwan Upgrade Strike Capability

TAIPEI AND TOKYO — Japan’s main movements on precision strike involve upgrading its Mitsubishi F-2 fighter jet fleet with Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) capability, and working on a more accurate surface-to-surface missile.Taiwan, meanwhile, is pushing ... [Published DefenseNews.com - May 07 2013]

Entities: Taiwan, JDAM, missile, Cloud Peak Energy Inc

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 3 reports

The Military's X-51 Waverider Finally Traveled Five Times The Speed Of Sound

Wikimedia Commons See Also An unmanned X-51A Waverider test plane achieved an incredible speed of more than 3800 mph on May 1, reaching Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean.The X-51A traveled more than 230 nautical miles in roughly six minutes making it the ... [Published Business Insider - May 06 2013]

Entities: X-51 WaveRider, Speed of Sound, scramjet

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Resident's Work Patented by Northrop Grumman

Hermosa Beach resident Trajaen J. Troia, 30, is one of two developers of an "airflow modulation for dual mode combined cycle propulsion systems" that has just been patented by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.United States Patent no. 8,429,893, issued ... [Published Hermosa Beach Patch - May 06 2013]

Entities: Northrop Grumman Corporation, Patent, Ramjet, Falls Church (United States)

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Boeing Company

Boeing Jet Flies Five Times the Speed of Sound; Darryl Davis Comments

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have developed a new airplane powered by supersonic combustion ramjet and intended to fly at speeds of more than five times the speed of sound.The X-51A WaveRider achieved a speed of Mach 5.1 for three and a half minutes ... [Published New New Internet - May 06 2013]

Entities: Darryl Davis, Boeing Company, Speed of Sound

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

US Air Force

USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams

cold fjord writes "It looks like another milestone for hypersonic flight has been reached. From the story: "The final flight of the X-51A Waverider test program has accomplished a breakthrough in the development of flight reaching Mach 5.1 over the Pacific ... [Published Slashdot - May 05 2013]

Entities: Hypersonic, scramjet, US Air Force, air-breathing

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 7 reports

Video: X-51A Waverider makes record-breaking hypersonic flight

The USAF launched the last of its four experimental X-51A Waverider vehicles Wednesday. Officials say the vehicle reached a speed of Mach 5.1, travelling more than 230 nautical miles before crashing into the Pacific off the California coast as planned. ... [Published Digital Journal - May 04 2013]

Entities: Hypersonic, X-51A WaveRider, scramjet

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Space History Photo: Technician Setting up RCA...

A NACA technician focuses a television camera on a ramjet engine in a wind tunnel.CREDIT: Paul Riedel.In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a television camera is focused by a NACA technician on a ramjet engine model through the schlieren ... [Published Space.com - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Ramjet, Space.com, Riedel, Supersonic

First reported Jan 24 2013 - Updated Jan 24 2013 - 1 reports

The Velocity of Thought

How fast we go affects how we perceive time. That lesson was implicit in the mathematics of Special Relativity, but at the speed most of us live our lives, easily describable in Newtonian terms, we could hardly recognize it. Get going at a substantial ... [Published Centauri Dreams - Jan 24 2013]

Entities: Velocity, Special Relativity, Acceleration, Speed of Light

First reported Dec 03 2012 - Updated Dec 03 2012 - 1 reports

MBDA, Herakles and Roxel Optimise the Ramjet Sector

Paris - On December 1st, MBDA France acquired the ramjet integration and testing activities of Roxel France. This development - which does not include Roxel’s ramjet integral booster or thermostructural materials activities - follows the signing of an ... [Published ASDNews.com: Be the first to know - Dec 03 2012]

Entities: Ramjet, MBDA, Herakles

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...But in this case, he added, commercial and military use "may happen about the same time, because the timeframes have been shrinking over the course of many years."

Hypersonic Weapons Could Hit Battlefield by 2025 [Published Yahoo! News - 21 mins ago]

"I'm not sure he believed in God," Stewart Elgie admitted in his eulogy, "but he was one of the most moral men I knew."

Remembering Robert Elgie [Published TVO.org - May 14 2013]

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Hypersonic Weapons Could Hit Battlefield by 2025 [Published Yahoo! News - 21 mins ago]
Hypersonic Weapons Could Hit Battlefield by 2025 [Published Space.com - May 20 2013]
Remembering Robert Elgie [Published TVO.org - May 14 2013]
HAB you seen our balloons? [Published Felix Online - May 09 2013]
West Roxbury Poetry Contest winners [Published Wicked Local Roslindale - May 08 2013]
Japan, Taiwan Upgrade Strike Capability [Published DefenseNews.com - May 07 2013]
The Military's X-51 Waverider Finally Traveled ... [Published Business Insider - May 06 2013]
Resident's Work Patented by Northrop Grumman [Published Hermosa Beach Patch - May 06 2013]
[VIDEO] US tests new military aircraft [Published Press tv - May 06 2013]
Boeing Jet Flies Five Times the Speed of Sound;... [Published New New Internet - May 06 2013]
Vroom Service [Published Time - May 06 2013]
USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams [Published Slashdot - May 05 2013]
Scramjet Sets Record Before Plunging Into Ocean [Published Huffington Post - May 05 2013]
X-51A Waverider Scramjet Hits Hypersonic Speed ... [Published The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - May 05 2013]
Hypersonic Missile Sets World Record on Longest... [Published Defense Update - May 05 2013]
Video: X-51A Waverider makes record-breaking hy... [Published Digital Journal - May 04 2013]
X-51A WaveRider hypersonic missile successfully... [Published The Verge - May 04 2013]
Air Force's X-51A Hypersonic Scramjet Makes Rec... [Published BruDirect - May 04 2013]
US jet breaks hypersonic flight.. [Published The Nation - Thailand - May 04 2013]
Warp-ish: Plane breaks hypersonic flight record... [Published SCPR - May 04 2013]
ASTRONOMY Full Page Air Force's X-51A Hypersoni... [Published The Oregon Herald - May 04 2013]
Waverider makes hypersonic history [Published Gizmag - May 03 2013]
Air Force's X-51A Hypersonic Scramjet Makes Rec... [Published Space.com - May 03 2013]
Air Force's X-51A Hypersonic Scramjet Makes Rec... [Published Yahoo! News - May 03 2013]
US Experimental Military Aircraft Hits Hyperson... [Published RIA Novosti - May 03 2013]
X-51A Waverider achieves breakthrough in final ... [Published Air Force Link - May 03 2013]
X-51A's record breaking hypersonic milestone [Published Aviation Week - May 03 2013]
Air Force's X-51A hypersonic aircraft sets reco... [Published NBCNews.com - May 03 2013]
Air Force's X-51A hypersonic aircraft sets reco... [Published Cosmic Log - May 03 2013]
Scramjet X-51 finally goes to HYPER SPEED above... [Published The Register - May 03 2013]

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Air Force's X-51A hypersonic aircraft sets reco... [Published Cosmic Log - May 03 2013] U.S. Air Force The U.S. Air Force's sleek, light-colored X-51A Waverider hypersonic vehicle can be seen tucked under the wing of a B-52H Stratofortress for this week's test launch. /div>By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News The U.S. Air Force's ...
Carnival of Nuclear Energy 150 [Published atomic power review - Mar 31 2013] Atomic Power Review is proud to host the 150th edition of the Carnival of Nuclear Energy today; even though this Carnival falls on Easter, it's important to remember that those employed in the energy industry don't get holidays off -- your lights are ...
Starships of the Mind [Published Centauri Dreams - Feb 22 2013] Michael Michaud wrote the essay that follows back in 1978 for a now-defunct magazine that never published it. In recent correspondence about Daedalus designer Alan Bond, Michael referred to the essay and I asked him to forward a copy, which had also ...
The Velocity of Thought [Published Centauri Dreams - Jan 24 2013] How fast we go affects how we perceive time. That lesson was implicit in the mathematics of Special Relativity, but at the speed most of us live our lives, easily describable in Newtonian terms, we could hardly recognize it. Get going at a substantial ...