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Gallery: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne/Boeing X-51A Waverider

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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne/Boeing X-51A Waverider Image 1

Courtesy Pratt & Whitney/Boeing

The unmanned X-51A broke the scramjet endurance record by flying at five times the speed of sound for more than three minutes.

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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne/Boeing X-51A Waverider Image 2

Courtesy Pratt & Whitney/Boeing

Previous scramjets have not been able to keep going for more than 12 seconds.

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11/17/10 at 10:14 am

This looks awesome. And 5x the speed of sound for 3 minutes.

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