Qld: Australians welcome US scramjet success

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: November 18, 2004 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
11-18-2004
Qld: Australians welcome US scramjet success

By John Sheed

BRISBANE, Nov 18 AAP - Australia's Hyshot scramjet program hopes to pip the Americans
in the speed stakes at the next test flight of its revolutionary engine next year.

Professor Allan Paull, who heads the scramjet program based at the University of Queensland,
congratulated the Americans on their successful mach 10 flight yesterday, but said the
Australians hoped to go faster.

The US hypersonic experimental scramjet which was launched from a B-52 bomber over
the Pacific Ocean, reached a ...

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