This report analyzes the potential environmental affects and consequences for conducting up to 48 annual flight tests by one of a kind research aircraft that would use scramjet engines to fly at altitudes up to 264, 000 feet above sea level. These flights would reach speeds faster than the speed of sound and land at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Environmental Assessment for Flight Test to the Edge of Space
2008
180 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aerodynamics , Environmental Health & Safety , Environmental assessment , Flight testing , Air breathing engines , Air force facilities , Air quality , Air space , Noise , Quantitative analysis , Risk analysis , Safety , Test vehicles , Air safety , Alternatives , Edwards afb , Faster than the speed of sound , Fonsi(Finding of no significant impact) , Noise and sonic boom analysis , Quantitative risk analysis , Afb(Air force base)