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.importantinnovat...