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...next stage, says Rausch, will be a 13-m long, recoverable and reusable aircraft. Ideas circulating at nasa include a plane that uses jet engines to take off and land and scramjets for hypersonic flight in between. Rausch predicts manned flights around 2010-15 and hypersonic passenger planes around 2025. "We will have the capability to go after this in a big way. We're real excited." Paull is similarly bullish: "The applications are likely to initially be more for space or military. But scramjets have the essentials for a passenger plane." Rausch says FedEx have also expressed an interest...
...Allan Paull, leader of the Australian HyShot project, which will test its own and a British model on July 2 and 9, the logic of hypersonics is undeniable. "If you had the money and the will, you're probably talking about five to 10 years before you have hypersonic aircraft," he says. "Once you have demonstrated something, if someone wants to run with it, it's just a matter of money...
...Serbia without even admitting the possibility of sending in ground forces, and that has now created the bizarre situation with our Chinese “friends,” in which the most powerful nation on earth has made an apology to a government whose reckless pilot forced our aircraft from the skies and then held our crew as, well, hostages...
Everyone had a job to do onboard the dying Navy reconnaissance plane when it began to fall out of the sky. The two pilots up front were trying to save the aircraft, while the other 22 crew members in back were trying to destroy what was inside it. Two Chinese F-8 fighters had been tracking the plane closely, too closely, for 10 minutes. The U.S. flyers even recognized one of the pilots, Wang Wei, a notorious hotdogger who one time flew so close to an American plane that he could be seen holding up his e-mail address...
...While the EP-3E is an old plane, a model that began flying in 1969, its electronic guts are up-to-the-minute. No EP-3E has ever been shot down or captured, even though the "flying pig," as it is called, is a long-range, slow-flying unarmed aircraft. "The most important thing to the Chinese on that airplane was the data we had collected earlier that day," says Norman Polmar, an independent Navy expert. "That would tell them which of their systems is vulnerable to interception--Are we able to intercept telephone conversations from Chinese naval headquarters...