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Hypersonic
Speeds above mach 6.
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HYPERSONIC - Speed of flight at or greater than Mach 5.0, exceeding SUPERSONIC.
IFR - Instrument Flight Rules, governing flight under instrument meteorological conditions.
Hypersonic Flight
Flight conducted at speeds greater than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.
Hypersonic: Greater then Mach 5
Most airliners currently travel around anywhere from Mach 0.6 - Mach 0.9. Military jets of course can travel in some cases at hypersonic speeds.
Air-launched hypersonic scramjet
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List of vehicle speed records
Lockheed X-7 - Mach 4.31 (2,881mph)in the 1950s
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Hypersonic: 3500-7000 MPH Roll To roll the plane to the right or left, the ailerons are raised on one wing and lowered on the other. The wing with the lowered aileron rises while the wing with the raised aileron drops.
"Today's students will be flying hypersonic aerospace planes at the turn of the century, and how we teach them to fly today must be different from the methods we used 10 years ago," says UND Aerospaces John Odegard.
Blackswift - a joint program between AFRL and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that was developing a hypersonic turbojet/scramjet combined-cycle propulsion system used as a reusable, long range strike aircraft.
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