Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

Mach 9.6 in Seconds: The Scramjet Leap That Stopped Short

Breaking Mach 9.6 with an air-breathing engine wasn’t just a speed stunt. It confirmed that scramjets can operate where rockets once had the field to themselves,” said Harry J. Kazianis, citing the ...
New Atlas

GE Aerospace flies hypersonic engine with no moving parts

What has zero moving parts, yet can blast an aerial vehicle to velocities beyond Mach 5? The answer is the recently flight-tested Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) powered by a ...
National Security Journal on MSN

SR-72 ‘Son of Blackbird’ Could Hit 4,000 Miles Per Hour

Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Son of Blackbird or “Darkstar” aims to replace the SR-71 with hypersonic ISR—and possibly strike—using a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) that blends a turbofan for ...
Purdue University

PARI students successfully test full-scale, additively manufactured scramjet

Will DeVerter, a graduate research assistant in the Purdue Applied Research Institute’s Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center (HAMTC), prepares his team’s 3D printed scramjet for ...