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• The NASA Dryden X 43A Photo Collection
  
  The X43A was a small experimental research aircraft designed to flightdemonstrate the technology of airframeintegrated supersonic ramjet or scramjet propulsion at hypersonic speeds above Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. Its scramjet engine i ...
  http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-43A/index.html

• The NASA Readies X 43A for Next Flight
  
  Successful Mach 7 mission is crucial to plans to fly vehicle at M10 and for followon faster experimental craft. NASA has scheduled its crucial second attempt to fly the X43A experimental hypersonic vehicle for 21 February at the earliest, but is stil ...
  http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2004/01/06/175909/nasa-readies-x-43a-f...

• The NASA X 43A Soars on Scramjet Power
  
  NASAs second X43A hypersonic research aircraft flew successfully today, the first time an airbreathing scramjet powered aircraft has flown freely. ...
  http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43_soars_feature.html

• The First Flight For X 43A LowSpeed Demonstrator
  
  The first successful flights of the X43A LowSpeed demonstrator aircraft occurred the week of Nov. 10 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The 12footlong unpiloted research vehicle is one of a series of lightweight, remotecontrolled aircraft dedicated ...
  http://researchernews.larc.nasa.gov/archives/2003/120503/X43A.html