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In April 1961, Russian Major Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel at hypersonic speed, during the world's first piloted orbital flight. Soon after, in May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American and second person to fly hypersonic when his capsule reentered the atmosphere at a speed above Mach 5 at the end of his suborbital flight ...
5 sty 2024 · The first X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket were carried aloft by NASA’s NB-52B carrier aircraft from Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA, on June 2, 2001 for the first of three high-speed free flight attempts.
30 lis 2020 · The first motorized flight of the Wright brothers on December 17, 1903. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Previous experiments led scientists to believe that the faster an object traveled, the...
30 maj 2012 · In so doing, it becomes the first object of human origin to achieve hypersonic flight – the first time that any vehicle has flown faster than five times the speed of sound.* Since that time, numerous vehicles have flown at hypersonic speeds – the nose cones of intercontinental ballistic missiles, and with humans aboard the Mercury, Gemini ...
17 wrz 2024 · On Sept. 17, at the controls of X-15-2, Crossfield completed the first powered flight of an X-15. Firing all eight of the XLR-11 engines for 224 seconds, he reached a speed of Mach 2.11, or 1,393 miles per hour, and an altitude of 52,341 feet.
1 sie 2003 · Hypersonic flight has been with us since 22 September 1963, when Robert M. White flew the North American X-15 at 4520 mph at an altitude of 354,200 ft —a Mach number of 6.7! This remarkable achievement was accomplished over six decades due to intensive research and development by a large number of scientists and engineers.
27 wrz 2023 · The X-43A was the first aircraft to reach hypersonic speeds using an air-breathing engine.
