Название: Hypersonic Power Projection
Автор: Richard P. Hallion
Издательство: Mitchell Paper 6
Страниц: 40
Формат: PDF
Размер: 17 мб
Качество: среднее
Язык: Английский
Год: 2010
“Hypersonic flight at levels of Mach 6 was first raised as a possibility in the 1920s and 1930s. Promising research programs in the 1960s made it seem as though routine hypersonic flight was just around the corner. That promise was not fulfilled.
Today, a casual observer could be excused for thinking that very little progress has been made. There’s no sleek fleet ferrying passengers from New York to Tokyo in two hours, as has at times been postulated. The quest for a practical, operational, air-breathing hypersonic aircraft feels like aviation’s unrequited dream.
