DARPA has confirmed the splash down of its unmanned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2) following the hypersonic vehicle's second test flight on August 11. While a "controlled descent" ...
In this episode, we follow DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2 - a hypersonic glide vehicle built to prove whether Mach 20 flight could ...
This video shows the August 2011 test flight of HTV-2. Learn more about DARPA’s HTV-2 program at http://go.usa.gov/KXs This video shows the August 2011 test flight ...
Engineers prefer to build designs on knowledge rather than guesswork, but when it comes to high-speed, high-altitude flight there is not a lot of data to work with. Mistaken assumptions about airflow ...