Breaking!!!!!An unmanned aircraft designed to fly six times the speed of sound crashed over the Pacific Ocean, Air Force says.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

The Boeing X-51 (also known as X-51 WaveRider) is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic (Mach 6, approximately 4,000 miles per hour (6,400 km/h) at altitude) flight testing. It successfully completed its first free-flight on 26 May 2010 and also achieved the longest duration flight at speeds over Mach 5.

[link to www.space.com]

The test was actually the third flight of the X-51 vehicle; it was the first time it flew independently. It had remained attached to its mother ship on both earlier flights.

Three more X-51 hypersonic tests flights are scheduled for later this year. The Air Force has built four X-51A cruisers in all, with one of them now successfully flown.


[link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

The future takes flight: Hypersonic X-51 Waverider jet makes first airborne appearance


notice the "first test flight" is a different date in different articles? Wiki says 2010, yet others say yesterday.

Then when they build the son of a bitch with somebody else's money, they just dump it in the ocean.

just another tool to murder people with, keep paying your taxes you dumbass sheep.

Didn't the Shuttle do Mach 22 or something, just stick a USAF badge on one save a load of money.

sounds like a piece of shit.

I say dismantle the military machine and let all the people fend for themselves! Take USA back to the Bow & arrow and the Spear while the rest of world works to destroy you.. But let the people defend themselves with their shotguns and pistols: defend your precious liberties.. or at least whats left of them....

Jesus people.. get some balance in your thinking!

Thank you gomer. You're a credit to your platoon (of shills).

you say get a balance of thinking yet you went extremely fuckn retarded in your comment. fuk off dumb nut job neo con trash

Man that would be an epic movie, the military accidently nuking the garbage heap and it raining hot plastic down on everything, or an giant garbage monster like godzilla.

as said by a fine representative of those that demand that others pick up their slack and look after their well being!.. Grow some nuts but failing that.. crawl back into that warm, safe womb so your momma can protect your ass from life...

A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow.
its not a rocket

For example, the price to launch a payload aboard the Space Shuttle is still $10,000/pound. The goal for the replacement is to cut this cost by a factor of 10 with competing technologies,- scramjet!

how to the fuck are you gonna fly up to mach 6 with a faulty control fin???? you think they would have checked that!!!

FAIL! LOL....

We're still blasting objects around with fossil fuels. So primitive. Tesla will be turning in his grave.

IMO if it truly did crash we would not have heard about said "crash" especially so quick. The devil's greatest trick it to make people believe he doesn't exist.

And yes-- this is a def game changer in aerial flight warfare

Wait a minute, isn't an ICBM a unmanned multiple supersonic aircraft?
Plane or missile?

+1

That is the thrid time! and £160million sent to the bottom of the ocean.

The last time it generated unexpected shockwaves infront of its engine.

So they changed the timings for the fuel injection or something and they said it would fix it,


obviously not.

so thats over $200 million

yes, they considerd that, but every time they would try and launch one for a conventional strike somewhere, they would risk triggering world war III!
So they knocked that idea on the head.

maybe its the Aurora project??

[link to www.youtube.com]

Crashed ? It could be shot down by........

Speed is a primitive understanding of motion flowing from the minds of primitive cavemen. And the caveman's compensatory technology just crashed and burned. He he.

Nevermind, can't get the vid to play at the time I want.

Last Edited by Tard on 08/15/2012 05:55 PM

Are you people blind? READ THIS!!!

Are you people blind? READ THIS!!!

what's this "we" shit?

Hi everyone this is my first post.I was thinking didn't Ed Dames say the first part of his viewing was an aircraft/spacecraft crashing? I think he said it resembled the space shuttle.Just a thought I might have the event line mixed up but it does resemble the space shuttle.

Wow, at the cost of what, like 5 billion dollars? How many people could that feed? Not to mention the high priced scientists and technicians and research people and facilities, plus construction? Good grief.

but these things are very strange, they have anti-gravitation with 2 tesla coils and can be invisible and produce hologramms

Putin is laughing his ass off.