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Title: Australian Scramjet success again.
Post by: ##RaCeR## on August 16, 2002, 12:25:49 AM

It was just on the news, I am gonna have to see if I can find a link. They did another test today and it was even more successful then the one last week. They got it to Mach 5 or something.

Gotta find a link.

Title: Australian Scramjet success again.
Post by: bigrob on August 16, 2002, 01:24:18 AM

scramjet rules.
The only problem is getting it up to working speed.  But feck, mach 5, now that is fast.  1657 m/sec that is, or 5436 ft/sec

damn !  Go Aussie ;-)  

NOTE to racer:I used to live in surfers paradise and work in brisbane, now I am  back in scandinava !

Title: Australian Scramjet success again.
Post by: ##RaCeR## on August 16, 2002, 01:41:53 AM

I am from Brisbane, best bloody city in the world.

We have the best clubs.

Title: Australian Scramjet success again.
Post by: ##RaCeR## on August 16, 2002, 01:45:18 AM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020816/sc_nm/science_australia_scramjet_dc_2

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian researchers said on Friday an air-breathing hypersonic "scramjet" engine had successfully achieved supersonic ignition in the atmosphere for the first time -- reaching 7.6 times the speed of sound.

Project leader Allan Paull said data analyzed from the July 30 test showed the engine, which uses oxygen in the atmosphere to ignite hydrogen fuel, had reached Mach 7.6 -- a speed that would dramatically cut long-haul flight times around the world.

"We do believe we achieved supersonic flight for the first time," Paull, who heads the University of Queensland "HyShot" program, told Reuters after his team had finished analyzing the results from the experiment.

Engineers say any commercial application is still years down the road but the successful test of the HyShot scramjet at least proves the technology is viable.

The test over the central Australian desert of the air-breathing engine capable of speeds in excess of 5,000 km (3,100 miles) per hour was the first time engineers had managed to make a scramjet work in flight, outside an air tunnel.

The team fired the scramjet engine into the sky on back of Terrier Orion Mk70 rocket, which took it into the upper atmosphere. The engine kicked into action on the way back down at 35 km (22 miles) above the earth, with data transmitted by radio until it began to burn up.

A year ago, U.S. space agency NASA ( news - web sites)\'s test of its multimillion dollar, unmanned X-43A scramjet prototype failed and a previous attempt by the HyShot crew went awry when a rocket used to launch the engine spun out of control.

Title: Australian Scramjet success again.
Post by: fastson on August 16, 2002, 04:01:41 AM

Pretty cool..

Btw, I heard the Russians were developing some kind of supersonic sub that will travel in a "air-bubble".. freakish :)

Title: Australian Scramjet success again.
Post by: luckee on August 16, 2002, 04:34:19 AM

Quote

Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
I am from Brisbane, best bloody city in the world.

We have the best clubs.

Arent you a minor? WHat the hell do you know about a good club. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Title: Australian Scramjet success again.
Post by: SER on August 16, 2002, 04:41:03 AM

He probably meant like.. Britney Spears fan club, Mariah Carey fan club, etc.. :laughing:

Title: Australian Scramjet success again.
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on August 16, 2002, 07:35:21 AM

No, he just hasnt been to any other cities\' clubs, and is being a patriotic ass.

:)

Title: Australian Scramjet success again.
Post by: ##RaCeR## on August 17, 2002, 12:41:42 AM

No, I am not a minor, I am 19.

I hav been to several clubs in Sydney, San Fransico and Los Angeles.

Brisbane has the best clubs.

Title: Australian Scramjet success again.
Post by: Halberto on August 17, 2002, 12:50:53 AM

They put a human in that when it hit mach 5?!

Title: Australian Scramjet success again.
Post by: ##RaCeR## on August 17, 2002, 01:40:59 AM

No, it was just a test. The actual technology now exists.