"Dylan Smith" wrote:
I watched the X-43A successfully launch on NASA
tv over the Internet, and it turns out that they got
Mach 7 out of an aircraft powered by an
air-breathing engine.

Extremely cool video.

Did you notice, as the rocket exhaust trail faded, that the vehicle
appeared to follow a very slightly spiral-shaped track? Wonder what
that was about.
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Dan
C172RG at BFM
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