Autonomous hypersonic air‐breathing flight was demonstrated in 2004. The ultimate performance and operational validation of any vehicle can only be achieved through flight testing. The ultimate performance and operational validation of any vehicle can only be achieved through flight testing. The flight envelope for the test vehicle considers both its design and operational characteristics subjected to the actual flight conditions. The chapter discusses the use of subscale hardware, its issues, and limitations and addresses the value of full‐scale integrated flight vehicles. The Hypersonic International Flight Research and Experimentation (HIFiRE) program consisted of a series of flight experiments by US Air Force Research Laboratory, the Australian Defense Science and Technology, the University of Queensland, Boeing, NASA, and their contractors. The HIFiRE Program was designed to demonstrate fundamental technologies critical to next‐generation aerospace systems. The Hypersonic Flight Demonstration Program was a joint program between DARPA and the Office of Naval Research.
Hypersonic Air‐Breathing Flight Testing
Scramjet Propulsion ; 439-460
2022-11-18
22 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Air-Breathing Hypersonic Flight Control
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2004
|Quest for Air-Breathing Hypersonic Flight
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2008
|Air breathing propulsion system for hypersonic flight
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2000
|Hypersonic air breathing propulsion system testing
NTRS | 1965
|AIAA | 1992
|