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X-43A

NASA avionics technicians Randy Wagner and Terry Bishop make final adjustments on the scramjet-powered X-43A before its record Mach 9.6 flight.
 
Photo Number: EC04-0323-53
Photo Date: November 16, 2004
 
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Description:		 NASA avionics technicians Randy Wagner and Terry Bishop make final adjustments on the scramjet-powered X-43A before its record Mach 9.6 flight.
 
Project
Description:		 The high-risk, unpiloted X-43A flights are the first actual flight tests of an aircraft powered by a scramjet engine capable of operating at hypersonic speeds (above Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound). The X-43A is powered by a revolutionary air-breathing supersonic-combustion ramjet or "scramjet" engine.
 
NASA Photo by: Tony Landis
 
Keywords: X-43A, X-43, Hyper-X, mach 10, vehicle 3, #3, hypersonic, B-52, B-52B, mothership, scramjet, Pegasus booster rocket, Randy Wagner, Terry Bishop
 
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