Hypersonic waverider vehicles represent a frontier in aerospace engineering, merging innovative design geometries with advanced propulsion concepts to achieve superior aerodynamic efficiency at ...

BEIJING—A test of a Chinese hypersonic wave-rider on Aug. 3 was in part aimed at demonstrating a new thermal conduction system and booster-payload separation under high dynamic pressure.

Boeing's X-51A WaveRider — a jet-fueled, air-breathing hypersonic rocket developed for the U.S. Air Force — went hypersonic during a recent test off the Southern California coast, flying at ...

Warnings of a Russian hypersonic weapon that the U.S. can't defend against may have had you running for the bomb shelter last week. But what, exactly, is this weapon, and how does it work? Russian ...

Updated Dec 10, 2020 8:29 AM EST Boeing recently unveiled a conceptual model for a new hypersonic jet that would replace the SR-71 Blackbird, according to Aviation Week Aerospace Daily.

Asia Defense China Tests New ‘Waverider’ Hypersonic Vehicle The hypersonic aircraft sustained speeds above Mach 5.5. By Steven Stashwick August 09, 2018 Credit: Chinese Internet ...

Boeing & Aerospace Nation & World Traffic Lab Hypersonic aircraft WaveRider to roar into future Originally published August 13, 2012 at 8:10 pm Updated August 13, 2012 at 10:52 pm ...

Chinese scientists have announced the successful test of a surface material for hypersonic vehicles previously thought impossible to create The achievement means China has pushed ahead of the US ...

Developed by Boeing, the X-51A is built to reach speeds of up to 4,600 miles an hour, ABC News reports – or approximately six times the speed of sound. The name, Waverider, refers to the ability ...

The parts between the two wings are the airframe and the attachment struts. Because the cross-section of the configuration appears like the letter “I”, the design is named “hypersonic I-shaped ...

The flight test for Boeing’s experimental X-51A WaveRider plane, which travels five times faster than the speed of sound, failed, according to the U.S. Air Force. This is the third failure fo… ...