Scramjet from Popular Science. The first true reusable, free-flying scramjet could be Darpa's HTV-3X. It is also known as Blackswift. The HTV-3x could make its inaugural flight as early as 2012.

India has taken a major step in defence technology after DRDO successfully tested a full-scale scramjet engine in Hyderabad, ...

This experimental scramjet vehicle can be yours...with enough cash. On Tuesday, June 23, one lucky bidder could take take home a Russian experimental vehicle built to test a scramjet engine in the ...

University of Queensland researchers today (August 16) claimed success for the world`s first flight test of supersonic combustion, the process used in an air-breathing supersonic ramjet engine, known ...

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 ...

A hypersonic experimental scramjet, the X-43A, has just raced into the record books, flying at a speed nearly 10 times faster than sound, the U.S. space agency said. The pilotless scramjet screeched ...

Will the supersonic-combustion ramjet ever be a usable means of propulsion? Boeing, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and the US Air Force are convinced it can be Hypersonic windtunnel tests have cleared the ...

A new type of jet that flies so fast across the Atlantic you could take off from London as Downton Abbey begins and reach New York before the final credits roll has been announced by defence ...

Boeing's X-51 WaveRider has made aviation history by completing the longest ever supersonic* combustion ramjet-powered flight. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flew for almost three and a half ...

The world's first succesful flight of a scramjet using supersonic combustion has been confirmed by the Australian team responsible. The University of Queensland's Centre for Hypersonics successfully ...