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29.3.04

nasa jet flies at seven times speed of sound

ever so closer to warp speed!

an unmanned supersonic plane shattered the speed record for flight by flying at more than seven times the speed of sound this past saturday.

nasa's X-43A plane flew high above the pacific ocean for eleven seconds using an engine similar to those which power rockets, before gliding for several minutes and plunging into the ocean. it was the first successful demonstration of acceleration by a supersonic combustion ramjet or "scramjet" engine.