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...next stage, says Rausch, will be a 13-m long, recoverable and reusable aircraft. Ideas circulating at nasa include a plane that uses jet engines to take off and land and scramjets for hypersonic flight in between. Rausch predicts manned flights around 2010-15 and hypersonic passenger planes around 2025. "We will have the capability to go after this in a big way. We're real excited." Paull is similarly bullish: "The applications are likely to initially be more for space or military. But scramjets have the essentials for a passenger plane." Rausch says FedEx have also expressed an interest...
...will be its first flight. If all goes to plan, it should smash every world airplane record. It will make the fastest aircraft, the rocket-powered X-15 (Mach 6.7), look turgid, and leave the fastest jet, the SR-71 Blackbird (Mach 3.2), in its stratospheric dust. Says Vince Rausch, director of the Hyper-X project: "It's the future. We're convinced of that. What we've not done yet is demonstrate to the people it's real. And that's what we have...