How to design a hypersonic airplane that travel from Beijing to New York in only two hours? Dr. Cui Kai and his group from State Key Laboratory of High Temperature Gas Dynamics, Institute of Mechanics ...

Recent research in this field has focused on various design methodologies, aerodynamic characteristics, and performance optimization techniques to improve the overall effectiveness of hypersonic ...

The team, at the academy’s Key Laboratory of High Temperature Gas Dynamics, have dubbed the new hypersonic vehicle the “I-plane”. With two layers of wings, the I-plane design resembles the ...

Boeing does have some competition as Lockheed is currently working on its own concept designs for a hypersonic aircraft. All that aside, the technology and testing required to make a plane as fast ...

UDRI performs Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling of hypersonic flows in order to better guide the design process. CFD allows iteration and flexibility within a given design space, thus ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow ...

Scientists had to make compromises in aerodynamic design and engine layout The tech could reduce launch costs to a fraction of the current price The hypersonic planes will be able to travel at ...

The Army appears to have inadvertently publicized potential plans for a brand-new hypersonic weapon system in a post on the official Flickr page of Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy By Jared Keller ...

The plane is no longer in production ... their vehicles to either space of to hypersonic speeds horizontally. Whereas Virgin used to fire a rocket named LauncherOne to low Earth orbit to deliver ...

Stratolaunch is upgrading its 747 carrier platform to support test flights of its hypersonic Talon-A vehicle. (Stratolaunch) Stratolaunch, a California-based firm building a reusable hypersonic ...