Significant advancements in hypersonic airbreathing vehicle technology have been made in the country's research centers and industry over the past 40 years. Some of that technology is being validated with the X-43 flight tests. This paper presents an overview of hypersonic airbreathing technology status within the US, and a hypersonic technology development plan. This plan builds on the nation's large investment in hypersonics. This affordable, incremental plan focuses technology development on hypersonic systems, which could be operating by the 2020's.
Airbreathing Hypersonic Technology Vision Vehicles and Development Dreams
3rd Weakly Ionized Gases Workshop
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1999
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Norfolk, VA, United States
9th International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference
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1999
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Norfolk, VA, United States
1999-01-01
Conference paper
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English