Use This Aircraft from Sabang to Merauke, in Just 1 hour

LOS ANGELES, KOMPAS.com — A Thunderbirds-style hipersonik jet aircraft developed for long-distance military aviation in the future. The aircraft was named the X-51A WaveRider was using a revolutionary machine can make it to Sabang until Merauke from distance in less than 1 hour.

On Tuesday (14/8/2012), the aircraft was tested. The aircraft will be flown from Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, California, with bomber wing. Later, the jet will be released from a height of 15,24 km near Cape Point Mugu.

Once released, the engine will start working in the aircraft and made the move up to 4.5 Mach airliner or 5.513 miles per hour in a few seconds. If all goes well, the plane can move up to speed or Mach 6 miles per hour and 7.350 ride height is reached 21,34 miles.

This mission will last for 300 seconds, the longest aircraft flight experienced by the aircraft. After that the aircraft would "ditabrakkan" into the sea and there are no plans to salvage the aircraft violently.

Hipersonik aircraft development project was funded by NASA and the Pentagon. Expected, the aircraft could be used for military purposes in the future. According to Globalsecurity.org, funds needed reaches 89 million pounds.

Why was the plane that fast? There is a secret. Screamjet this is the plane because the aircraft was not airbreathing carrying fuel and oxygen, but only carry fuel in the form of hydrogen and "interesting" oxygen is needed to burn it in the atmosphere.

The air going into the front of the engine and the hydrogen will be injected into the airflow. Compressed Gas causing temperature rises and combustion occurs. This resulted in a boost which allows jet travelling at high speeds.

The development of this aircraft in line with the development of future aircraft, supersonic aircraft with a speed of more than 5 times the speed of sound. Supersonic development as well as the evolution of aircraft-driven propeller to jet aircraft.

Robert Mercier, Deputy technology system at high speed at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio, was quoted as saying the Daily Mail today said, "since the Wright Brothers, we continue to strive to develop the plane better and faster. Hipersonik is one of the potential in flight. "

Currently, the fastest passenger aircraft is the Cessna Citation X is capable of reaching speeds of 1,395 miles per hour or Mach 0.9, though only 7 passenger hauling. Another plane is the Falcon 7 x speed with 1,102 miles per hour as well as Gulfstream G550 with 1,086 km per hour speed.