Scramjet Flight Begins Now…
{"Image DocumentName": "Scramjet Flight Begins Now\u2026", "Image ImageDescription": "2060. SCRAMJET ENGINE TECHNOLOGY Operationally Responsive Spacelift Large Hypersonic Missiles/ Small Launch Systems. X-51A. Thanks to the X-51A, we can contemplate a future aimed at that graphic we saw previously\u2026 \u2026a short-term future of joint service hypersonic air-breathing missiles and autonomous air vehicles ensuring the safety and security of America\u2019s military, enhancing our ability to meet the combat challenges of an increasingly uncertain, dangerous world. \u2026a mid-term future of larger missiles and small space launch systems, ones extending both American power and reducing the costs per pound sent into orbit, the latter one of the most elusive and challenging goals within astronautics\u2026 \u2026and a long-term future of global ranging and global girdling hypersonic transports and space-lift systems. As the Wright Flyer led to subsonic era, as the X-1 led to the supersonic era, the X-51 has pointed the way to our hypersonic future. Hypersonic Vehicles. Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. Robert J. Collier.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}