Test of the world's fastest aircraft, that can hit anywhere in the world in one hour, Failed.

[Young]

Pentagon's Hypersonic Plane Goes Missing. A test flight of the Falcon HTV-2, a hypersonic plane capable of reaching speeds roughly 20 times the speed of sound, ended unexpectedly early on Thursday when ground controllers lost contact with the arrowhead-shaped plane less than half an hour after it took to the skies. Launched at 7:45 a.m. Pacific Time from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Santa Barbara, the aircraft soared to the upper reaches of the atmosphere aboard an eight-story Minotaur IV rocket, before being unleashed from its protective cover atop the rocket.[/QUOTE]


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The world's fastest aircraft test 4:45 p.m.




HTV-2 will be able to reach all the goals in the world in under an hour.

11.08.2011, kl. 4:37 p.m.

Follow the test flight of the world's fastest aircraft on Twitter.

Thursday at 16:45 European time, tests the U.S. military is the world's fastest airplane. The aircraft is unmanned and is called the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2). The aircraft's potential top speed is 20 times the speed of sound and will potentially be able to move from London to Sydney in under an hour. HTV-2 will be launched to the boundary of the Earth atmosphere on a rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Where will the aircraft be connected by the rocket and on the way down to the ground will come up in top speed. It was first tested in April this year, but then have the flight canceled because of technical problems. The testing was actually done Wednesday, but it was postponed to Thursday because of bad weather.

 

[junaids]

Re: The world's fastest aircraft, Can hit anywhere in world in one Hour

Contact lost with the aircraft 20 minutes into the flight.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/hy...tv-plane-test-loses-contact/story?id=14280849

 

[CanadianDesi]

Re: The world's fastest aircraft, Can hit anywhere in world in one Hour

Mere tarkash main baqi hai ik teer abhi
Mujh ko hai jurate tadbeer abhi

 

[WatanDost]

Re: The world's fastest aircraft, Can hit anywhere in world in one Hour

Probably designed by EVIL nation for there MASTER DAJJAL ride.
But there DESTINY is WRITTEN from LAST 1400 years. INSHAALLAH.

 

[biomat]

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[h=1]http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2011-08-11-hypersonic-glider-launched_n.htm
U.S. hypersonic glider launched, contact lost[/h] [h=3][/h] Posted 2h 26m ago





LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says contact with its experimental hypersonic glider was lost after launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast.

 

[Lodhi]

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[h=1]A Pentagon agency reported losing contact with an unmanned hypersonic aircraft made by Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) less than an hour after launch.
The experimental Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, or HTV-2, lifted off today in a Minotaur IV rocket made by Orbital Sciences Corp. (ORB) at 7:45 a.m. local time from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, according the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is funding the program and overseeing the tests. The agency made the announcement on Twitter. [/h]The arrowhead-shaped aircraft soared to the edge of space, separated from the booster and was “on track” to enter its glide phase, during which it would reach speeds of Mach 20, or about 13,000 miles per hour, before diving into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Kwajalein Atoll, according to the agency.
Around 8:22 local time, the agency reported engineers “lost telemetry” with the aircraft. No additional details were provided. Attempts to reach public affairs officers at Vandenberg and the defense agency, commonly known as Darpa, were unsuccessful.
Today’s flight was the aircraft’s second and final planned test flight. The first attempt on April 22, 2010, ended nine minutes into flight when the on-board computer detected a glitch and forced a splashdown. Data from the maiden voyage indicated the craft reached speeds of between Mach 17 and Mach 22.
A flight from New York to Los Angeles at such speeds would take less than 12 minutes, according to Darpa.
The project began in 2003 and cost $320 million, Eric Butterbaugh, a spokesman for Darpa, said in an e-mail. The goal is to develop technology that could deliver a non-nuclear warhead anywhere in the world within an hour.
Tom Collina, research director at the Arms Control Association in Washington, said the technology is unconstrained by the New Start, a nuclear arms reduction agreement signed last year by U.S. and Russia, and is unlikely to be confused as a nuclear weapon because its trajectory is unlike the Bell-shaped curve of a ballistic missile.
“Most people perceive this to be a niche capability,” he said in a telephone interview. “You’re not going to build more than a dozen or two of these things.”

 

[Lodhi]

Pentagon's Hypersonic Plane Goes Missing

Pentagon's Hypersonic Plane Goes Missing. A test flight of the Falcon HTV-2, a hypersonic plane capable of reaching speeds roughly 20 times the speed of sound, ended unexpectedly early on Thursday when ground controllers lost contact with the arrowhead-shaped plane less than half an hour after it took to the skies. Launched at 7:45 a.m. Pacific Time from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Santa Barbara, the aircraft soared to the upper reaches of the atmosphere aboard an eight-story Minotaur IV rocket, before being unleashed from its protective cover atop the rocket.