New aircraft speed record by NASA (who else) . . .

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 22 Nov 2004, 13:34

On the 16th of November, NASA once again broke the speed record with it's experimental Scramjet engine. This is taken from the How Stuff Works website:

How Stuff Works wrote:NASA's experimental space plane, the X-43A, set a new speed record for aircraft on November 16, 2004. In the unmanned test flight, the plane reached Mach 10 -- 10 times the speed of sound, or about 6,600 miles (10,600 kilometers) per hour. This flight broke the previous speed record of Mach 7, set in March 2004 by the X-43A in a previous test flight.

Amazing.

See the HowStuffWorks article HERE

jemc · Post by **jemc** » 22 Nov 2004, 14:28

swet

flatblacksleeper · Post by **flatblacksleeper** » 23 Nov 2004, 02:52

I am so close to getting that fast in my car

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But that is extrememly amazing

Dr-CiviC · Post by **Dr-CiviC** » 23 Nov 2004, 13:21

10 times the sound barrior AMAZING imagen if they made a jet that could farpass the speed of light

Kilkenny · Post by **Kilkenny** » 23 Nov 2004, 13:48

Dr-CiviC wrote:10 times the sound barrior AMAZING imagen if they made a jet that could farpass the speed of light

That would mean that timetravell would be possible

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 23 Nov 2004, 13:53

Pfffffft. Time travel is bullsh*t.

But it would be pretty cool to go that fast . . .

EmptyWords · Post by **EmptyWords** » 23 Nov 2004, 23:04

and light is mach3???

T-Shine · Post by **T-Shine** » 23 Nov 2004, 23:45

No, the light would be Mach 900000 or something like that, heheh. I actually think timetravelling is quite interesting.

EmptyWords · Post by **EmptyWords** » 23 Nov 2004, 23:51

lol.. well since .. light is 3 times faster than sound.. and sound is mach 1.. i thought light was mach3.. ah well. thats still preety damn fast.. mach10

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 24 Nov 2004, 02:45

The speed of light is 300 000 kilometers per second or 186 000 miles per second.

Which is a lot faster than Mach 10.

Dr-CiviC · Post by **Dr-CiviC** » 24 Nov 2004, 05:18

there goes boganbusman with his tecnical mumbo jumo

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 24 Nov 2004, 05:20

What is so technical about the speed of light?

Dr-CiviC · Post by **Dr-CiviC** » 24 Nov 2004, 05:52

just a joke dude

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 24 Nov 2004, 16:17

EmptyWords wrote:lol.. well since .. light is 3 times faster than sound.. and sound is mach 1.. i thought light was mach3.. ah well. thats still preety damn fast.. mach10

So where did you get that from..

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 25 Nov 2004, 04:28

PSZeTa wrote:
EmptyWords wrote:lol.. well since .. light is 3 times faster than sound.. and sound is mach 1.. i thought light was mach3.. ah well. thats still preety damn fast.. mach10
So where did you get that from..

From his a** lol.

And yes, Mach 10 is very damn fast . . . about 12,250 km/h or 7,612 mp/h.

ViperJay · Post by **ViperJay** » 25 Nov 2004, 23:52

oh, I'm so sad about that...I thinked I made a new record, but now I see that the poor mach 9 of my peugeot 206 isn't enough....

EmptyWords · Post by **EmptyWords** » 26 Nov 2004, 01:56

its kind of a stupid thing, forget it