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46 relations: Acceleration, Air Force Research Laboratory, Altitude, Boeing, Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Boeing Small Launch Vehicle, Cargo ship, Compression lift, DARPA, Engine, Ethylene, Experimental aircraft, Flight airspeed record, Flightglobal, Fossil fuel, Hypersonic flight, Hypersonic speed, Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle, Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, JP-7, Langley Research Center, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, Los Angeles Times, MGM-140 ATACMS, NASA, NASA X-43, Naval Air Station Point Mugu, Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, Pacific Ocean, Pratt & Whitney, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Propulsion, Robot, Scramjet, Scramjet programs, Shock wave, Solid rocket booster, Technology demonstration, Thrust, Trajectory, United States Air Force, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Unstart, Waverider, Wind tunnel, WU-14.
Acceleration
In physics, acceleration is the rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time.
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Air Force Research Laboratory
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is a scientific research organization operated by the United States Air Force Materiel Command dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of affordable aerospace warfighting technologies, planning and executing the Air Force science and technology program, and providing warfighting capabilities to United States air, space, and cyberspace forces.
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Altitude
Altitude or height (sometimes known as depth) is defined based on the context in which it is used (aviation, geometry, geographical survey, sport, atmospheric pressure, and many more).
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Boeing
The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.
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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.
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Boeing Small Launch Vehicle
The Boeing Small Launch Vehicle, or SLV, is an air-launched three-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle concept aimed to launch small payloads of into low-Earth orbit.
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Cargo ship
A cargo ship or freighter ship is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.
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Compression lift
In aerodynamics, compression lift refers to an aircraft that uses shock waves generated by its own supersonic flight to generate lift.
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DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
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Engine
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one form of energy into mechanical energy.
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Ethylene
Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is a hydrocarbon which has the formula or H2C.
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Experimental aircraft
An experimental aircraft is an aircraft that has not yet been fully proven in flight.
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Flight airspeed record
An air speed record is the highest airspeed attained by an aircraft of a particular class.
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Flightglobal
Flightglobal is an online news and information website which covers the aviation and aerospace industries.
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Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.
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Hypersonic flight
Hypersonic flight is flight through the atmosphere below about 90km at speeds above Mach 5, a speed where dissociation of air begins to become significant and high heat loads exist.
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Hypersonic speed
In aerodynamics, a hypersonic speed is one that is highly supersonic.
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Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle
The HSTDV is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic speed flight.
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Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2
Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) is a crewless, experimental hypersonic glide vehicle rocket glider developed as part of the DARPA Falcon Project capable of flying at 13,000 mph (Mach 17.53, 21,000 km/h).
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JP-7
Turbine Fuel, Low Volatility, JP-7, commonly known as JP-7, was referred to as Jet Propellant 7, to MIL-DTL-38219 is a specific jet fuel that was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF), for use in its supersonic military aircraft that required a jet fuel with a high flash point, and high thermal stability.
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Langley Research Center
Langley Research Center (LaRC or NASA Langley) located in Hampton, Virginia, United States, is the oldest of NASA's field centers.
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Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth multirole fighters.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.
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MGM-140 ATACMS
The MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATacMS) is a surface-to-surface missile (SSM) manufactured by the American company Lockheed Martin.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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NASA X-43
The X-43 was an experimental unmanned hypersonic aircraft with multiple planned scale variations meant to test various aspects of hypersonic flight.
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Naval Air Station Point Mugu
Naval Air Station Point Mugu is a former United States Navy air station that operated from 1942 to 2000 in California.
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Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit
The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy penetration strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses; it is a flying wing design with a crew of two.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations.
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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) was a United States company that designed and produced rocket engines that use liquid propellants.
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Propulsion
Propulsion means to push forward or drive an object forward.
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Robot
A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer— capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.
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Scramjet
A scramjet ("supersonic combustion ramjet") is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow.
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Scramjet programs
Scramjet programs refers to research and testing programs for the development of supersonic combustion ramjets, known as scramjets.
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Shock wave
In physics, a shock wave (also spelled shockwave), or shock, is a type of propagating disturbance.
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Solid rocket booster
Solid-fuel rocket boosters (SRBs) are large solid propellant motors used to provide thrust in spacecraft launches from initial launch through the first ascent stage.
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Technology demonstration
A technology demonstration or demonstrator model, informally known as a tech demo, is a prototype, rough example or an otherwise incomplete version of a conceivable product or future system, put together as proof of concept with the primary purpose of showcasing the possible applications, feasibility, performance and method of an idea for a new technology.
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Thrust
Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law.
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Trajectory
A trajectory or flight path is the path that a massive object in motion follows through space as a function of time.
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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Unmanned aerial vehicle
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.
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Unstart
In supersonic aerodynamics, unstart refers to a generally violent breakdown of the supersonic airflow.
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Waverider
A waverider is a hypersonic aircraft design that improves its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by using the shock waves being generated by its own flight as a lifting surface, a phenomenon known as compression lift.
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Wind tunnel
A wind tunnel is a tool used in aerodynamic research to study the effects of air moving past solid objects.
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WU-14
WU-14 was the Pentagon's code name for a Chinese experimental hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), which is now called the DF-ZF.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51_Waverider
