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# Hypersonic

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What's this? Just an unmanned 'space plane' that could rewrite all we know about space exploration

The SABRE is designed to fly at 25 times the speed of sound. And it looks very, very cool.

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Nov 8th 2015, 5:00 PM

Airbus patents jet that could fly from Dublin to New York in under an hour

That’s pretty fast.

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Aug 5th 2015, 1:22 PM

Hypersonic jet fails Mach 6 test

Officials have blamed a faulty control fin for stopping the super-sonic combustion ramject engine from starting properly.

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Aug 15th 2012, 9:42 PM

US military loses world's fastest ever plane

The $308 million test flight has failed on its second attempt. Experts say that this outcome would not be unexpected.

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Aug 11th 2011, 8:38 PM