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The Air Force is making final preparations for the second hypersonic flight test by the X-51A Waverider slated to launch this spring from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The X-51A team made some slight vehicle modifications following the May 26, 2010 longest-ever hypersonic flight powered by a supersonic combustion ramjet engine. Charlie Brink, Air Force Research Laboratorys X-51A technology demonstrator program manager; Joseph Vogel, Boeing Phantom Works/Defense, Space & Security Director of Hypersonics X-51A program manager; and George Thum, X-51A Program Manager, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, will participate in a Roundtable to discuss the upcoming X-51A test flight.
| Date Taken: | 03.17.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 03.17.2011 12:44 |
| Category: | Newscasts |
| Audio ID: | 31841 |
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