2019: DARPA's Year of Hypersonic Flight

 Hypersonic Vehicle Cool Down Essential For Mach 5 ++


Source:  DARPA
DARPA's New MACH Program
For successful hypersonic vehicle flight acceleration to Mach 5 and beyond, new hypersonic architecture, materials and designs need to be innovated.  Quite simply, there's a big challenge with hypersonic aircraft that scientists have been working on for decades.  It's how to keep them cooler in their hot, leading edges in order to withstand Mach 5 plus speeds.

Hypersonic Flights Takeoff
The US Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency - DARPA - has declared 2019 the year of the hypersonics.  DARPA is pursuing new materials, architecture and designs for cooling the hot, leading edges of hypersonic vehicles as they accelerate to Mach 5 and beyond. The program kicks off in late January 2019.  It's a great example of US innovation leadership.  For a news blog on it, go to my journalist colleague Maryanne Kane at https://www.importantinnovations.com/2018/12/2019-year-of-hypersonics.html  For more news stories on hypersonic flight and other innovations, go to my Author Page at amazon.com/author/ekane

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