The X-51A Scramjet Engine flight demonstration program

15th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hank, Joseph M ^a,b   Murphy, James S ^a   Mutzman, Richard C ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Aerospace Propulsion Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; HYPERSONIC VEHICLES; MISSILES; PROPULSION; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SOFTWARE TESTING;

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; ARMY TACTICAL MISSILE SYSTEMS; ENGINE OPERATIONS; ENGINE PERFORMANCE; FLIGHT CONDITIONS; FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION; HYPERSONIC TECHNOLOGY; SCRAMJET ENGINE DEMONSTRATORS;

RAMJET ENGINES;

EID: 77958452194     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-2540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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