VOA Chinese, Mar. 16, 2010.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/US/20100316_PENTAGON-PLANS-TEST-FOR-HYPERSONIC-WEAPON-87814762.html
My comment:
(a) Diane Betzler, Press release: X-51 getting ready for first flight. US
Air Force, MAr. 4, 2010.
http://www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123193363
(X-51A WaveRider)
(b) Nancy Colaguor, Press release: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Scramjet
Engine Installed in Second X-51A Flight Test Vehicle. Pratt & Whitney, Aug.
10, 2009.
http://www.pw.utc.com/Media+Center/Press+Releases/Pratt+&+Whitney+Rocketdyne%27s+Scramjet+Engine+Installed+in+Second+X-51A+Flight+Test+Vehicle
The same press, but with an artist's rendering of X-51A.
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2009/08/10/scramjet-engine-installed-x51a-waverider-vehicle/
(c) The first several paragraphs of
China to Develop Hypersonic Aircraft. Xinhua, Sept. 15, 2001.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-18410009.html
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专家分析：中国的东南亚邻国加紧战备. VOA Chinese, Mar. 15, 2010.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/20100315-ARMS-PURCHASES-87669737.html
The VOA report is erroneous in identifying the flying machine as 猎鹰.
DARPA Falcon Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project
(FALCON is acronym for Force Application and Launch from CONtinental United States)
【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: VOA Chinese, Mar. 16, 2010.
: http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/US/20100316_PENTAGON-PLANS-TEST-FOR-HYPERSONIC-WEAPON-87814762.html
: My comment:
: (a) Diane Betzler, Press release: X-51 getting ready for first flight. US
: (以下引言省略...)
Guy Norris, U.S. Hypersonics Could Hinge On X-51 Tests. Aviation Week, Mar.
19, 2010.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/awst/2010/03/22/AW_03_22_2010_p58-210968.xml&headline=U.S.%20Hypersonics%20Could%20Hinge%20On%20X-51%20Tests&channel=awst
("two long-awaited technology demonstrations starting with the imminent
first flight attempt for the X-51 Waverider, to be followed within a month
by the first flight of the Falcon HTV-2 hypersonic test vehicle")
My comment:
(a) Little wonder that the VOA report got confused.
(b) "The FALCON project includes [among others,
#] The Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-1 (HTV-1) — a test concept, originally
planned to fly in September 2007 now cancelled.
# The HTV-2 — to fly in 2009."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project
(c) Minotaur IV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur_IV
(an expendable launch system of four-stage rocket; Orbital Sciences
Corporation of Viaginia; currently its maiden flight--with Lite--is
scheduled for April 2010, to launch HTV-2)
(d) Captive carry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_carry
(e) GPS/INS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS/INS
("use of GPS satellite signals to correct or calibrate a solution from an
Inertial Navigation System (INS)")
【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: VOA Chinese, Mar. 16, 2010.
: http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/US/20100316_PENTAGON-PLANS-TEST-FOR-HYPERSONIC-WEAPON-87814762.html
: My comment:
: (a) Diane Betzler, Press release: X-51 getting ready for first flight. US
: (以下引言省略...)