If China can pull off large-scale production of such a plane, it would revolutionize international air travel as we know it.

Chinese hypersonic air-to-air missiles have passed high-temperature resistance tests, according to researchers involved in ...

On Monday the Texas A&M University System announced that it will be home to what is expected to be “one of the ...

Effects of air and heat in the hypersonic wind tunnel The hypersonic wind tunnel at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is one of the few key facilities in ...

Here are the top 7 most powerful wind tunnels today. The JF-22 is known as the world’s most powerful hypersonic wind tunnel. Built at the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of ...

The mathematics of hypersonic flight primarily involves fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and gas dynamics, particularly ...

Reports are growing of a weapon that could threaten even the most advanced enemy aircraft, with hypersonic speeds posing great risks.

UDRI researchers design, fabricate, and commission complex hypersonic test apparatus. We developed the Mach 6 Ludwieg Tube wind tunnel for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) beginning with ...

Heat-resistance testing has been conducted on a secretive Chinese weapon, in what is the first confirmation of its existence.

Aerodynamic force measurement is crucial in the development and testing of high-speed vehicles, particularly in hypersonic wind tunnels. These facilities simulate the extreme conditions that ...

Due to its wide Mach and Reynolds number range, the Ludwieg tube wind tunnel is used for investigations into complex flow phenomena in supersonic and hypersonic flows and for the validation of ...

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