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Scientists gear up for new scramjet tests
Posted on: Mar. 23rd, 2006 || abc.net.au

A new scramjet engine, shaped like a bullet, will be tested in the Australian desert tomorrow by an international team of scientists that hopes it will be more efficient than previous designs.

Australian researchers from the HyShot Flight Program at the University of Queensland, will test the new scramjet, developed by a British defence technology company, QinetiQ.

The experiment is to be carried out on Australian defence property at Woomera in South Australia this Friday local time and is also sponsored by the US Air Force and the Canadian Air Force.

A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) operates at speeds greater than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.

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