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A hypersonic plane for 6th generation fighter?

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The dark-coloured plane showed up again and made a perfect landing hours after take-off。<br />
The report says that it was the first flight by the plane at an undisclosed flight test centre。<br />
An unmanned hypersonic plane？<br />
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The detail of this plane on forums,<br />
 It is said
 that this plane has unprecedented airframe, unprecedented flight mode, 
and matchs unprecedented altitude and speed, to fulfill unique mission.<br />
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Successfully launch a hypersonic plane, which is supposed to be similar 
with SR-71 and has a speed of more than 5M. The speed is overtake SR-71,
 which is 3.2~3.5M said by the report.<br />
It mentions that this new 
aircraft use a completely new designed thruster.<br />
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A hypersonic aircraft?<br />
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<b>A variable-cycle engine:</b><br />
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<b>Ramjet engine</b><br />
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American ramjet engine</b><br />
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<b>Shenlong Orbital Vehicle，similar to the X37B
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Version of Aurora spy plane<br />
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<a class="externalLink" href="http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/08/reports-of-improved-jet-engines-in.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Next Big Future: Reports of improved jet engines in China and development for a mach 5 test plane faster than the SR71 Blackbird</a></div>
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the engine division of Xi'an-based aeronautic and aerospace firm AVIC 
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The report mentions a planned project which would see the development of China's first domestically-made <span style="color: red;">turbofan-ramjet combined cycle engine</span>,
 designed for an unnamed aircraft. The description of this engine 
suggests something resembling the Pratt and Whitney J58 variable cycle 
engine used by the SR-71 Blackbird.<br />
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A source close to the PLA Air Force was cited by New Outlook as stating that this is <span style="color: red;">part of a project to develop a manned supersonic aircraft</span>,
 currently in the preparation stages at a domestic research institute. 
The aircraft is expected to have a top speed faster than the Blackbird 
on completion, according to the source, although the project is yet to 
be formally launched.<br />
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The China Aviation News report stated that in the first half of 2015, 
the engine division of AVIC Qingan Group finished the design process for
 three engine products and gained approval for them in May and July.<br />
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The article went on to list descriptions of the three engines as China's
 first domestically developed turbofan-ramjet combined cycle engine 
designed for an unnamed aircraft, a classic model engine and a classic 
model engine with a medium bypass ratio. This suggests the latter two 
are improved versions of the WS-10 and WS-18 turbofan engines.<br />
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The turbofan-ramjet combined cycle engine project, however, has never 
before been made public. The article stated that there is no precedent 
for the project and that China currently has no suitable heat-resistant 
materials for the project and therefore will have to contract overseas 
suppliers, adding that without the appropriate tools, they will have to 
go about making them from scratch.<br />
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A PLA Air Force source told New Outlook that the aircraft that <span style="color: red;">will use this engine has been in experimental development for several years by an aircraft institute in the southwest.</span> The aim of the project is to surpass the SR-71 Blackbird with a plane that can reach<span style="color: red;"> speeds of almost five-times the speed of sound,</span>
 which is the upper limit of a ramjet engine. For higher speeds, a 
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The <span style="color: red;">aircraft is said to be a large manned plane, with a similar design to Mikoyan's mysterious Project 301 hypersonic aircraft.</span></div>
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<u><b>So in the month of September 2015, may will have :</b></u><br />
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(1) Unveiled the DF-21D and DF-26D RASM(ASBM)<br />
(2) Successful conclusion of WS-15's high altitude tests<br />
(3) 4th gen AAM PL10 and PL15 completion tests hitting targets<br />
(4) J-2016 maiden flight<br />
(5) J-10C spotted with the 14000kgf of WS-10G<br />
(6) WZ-10 completed for Z-20, new heavy attack helicopter in development and future high-speed stealth helicopters<br />
(7) A mysterious type of hypersonic vehicle making first flight at a flight test centre<br />
(8) CZ-6 maiden flight carrying 20 payloads<br />
(9) CZ-11 maiden flight<br />
(10) The development of PL-21（an ultra long range AAM）is proceeding to plan and schedule.<br />
<b>(11) </b>DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle. <b>   </b><br />
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WZ-10 new engine</b><br />
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DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle<br />
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New DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle is a nuclear strike weapon, according
 to the Pentagon.<br />
Has conducted five tests of the DF-ZF since last
 year, an indication it is a high-priority weapons system. China’s 
Defense Ministry has confirmed tests of the weapon, saying only it is an
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The glide vehicle, launched atop a missile, travels along the edge of 
space at Mach 10, or nearly 8,000 miles an hour. Yet the vehicle is 
agile enough to overcome the effects of high-speed travel to maneuver – 
both to avoid missile defenses and for zeroing in on targets.<br />
The DF-ZF can also be armed with a conventional warhead, making it 
third missile outfitted with precision guidance that is accurate
 enough to attack ships at sea.<br />
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<b>It's the Convair SA-2S once planes concept as a SR-71-successor !</b></div>
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SR-71  fuselage<br />
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A hypersonic plane for 6th generation fighter?

The dark-coloured plane showed up again and made a perfect landing hours after take-off。 The report says that it was the first fli...

Concept drone seats two people and hits speeds of 120mph

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This strange vehicle might look like a flying saucer, but it's not for extraterrestrials.</div>
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- 3 metres (10 feet) tall and two meters (6.5 feet) wide<br />
- Seats two passengers<br />
- Eight electric rotary engines<br />
- Top speed of 120mph (190kph)<br />
- Detachable cockpit with emergency parachute<br />
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Designed by Pierpaolo Lazzarini from Italian company Jet Capsule, the drone seats two passengers.</div>
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A series of rechargeable batteries located in the I.F.O's outer disk power each engine.</div>
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The flying vehicle stands three metres (10 feet) tall and has a capsule cockpit that measures two meters (6.5 feet) in diameter.</div>
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It is surrounded by a strong carbon fibre disk to protect passengers without weighing the flying saucer down.</div>
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And the vehicle's cockpit can detach in emergencies - a parachute strapped to the back will then guide passengers to safety.</div>
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Hybrid Hypersonic Spaceplane Could Reset The 21st Century Space Race

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China is developing a perspective hybrid reusable space vehicle that will combine three different kinds of engine technologies, reported <i>CCTV.</i><br /><br />Namely, the new ship that is being developed as a “combination powered aircraft” will rely on an indigenous turbine, ramjet and rocket engines to power the spaceship in different phases of the flight into space. Such technology, China hopes will make orbit traveling that will span between dozens to hundreds of kilometers from the Earth much cheaper.<br /><br />The idea envisions that the combination of engines will allow the aircraft to take off like an airplane and land at an airport facility, saving costs by getting rid of the expenses associated with the space launch facility.<br /><br />Scientists believe that they are capable of producing an aircraft that will take off at low speed using a high-performance aviation turbine engine or air-breathing rocket engine. After reaching a certain speed, supersonic combustion ramjet engine will kick allowing the vehicle to reach the upper atmosphere where the rocket engine will be used to break through Earth’s gravity.<br /><br />“We have made a long-term plan of taking about three to five years to master the key technologies, and significantly improve the capability of the spacecraft during the application,” said Zhang Yong, China Aerospace Science & Technology Corp, as quoted by Xinhua. “We aim to implement the technology in suborbital flight and orbital insertion by 2030.”<br />
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    Chinese Hypersonic Spaceplane<br />

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    This screenshot from state television broadcast on the hypersonic
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accelerate to hypersonic speeds. Operating such a spaceplane by 2030 
would place China ahead of the space race, and other races. <i>Popular Science</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>It takes off from a runway, flies at hypersonic speeds, then rockets into orbit.</b></span> <br />

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While
 SpaceX is making news with its recoverable rockets, China announced 
that it is working on the next big thing in spaceflight: a hypersonic 
spaceplane.<br />
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The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation is beginning 
advanced research on a high tech, more efficient successor to the 
retired Space Shuttle, with hybrid combined cycle engines that can 
takeoff from an airport's landing strip and fly straight into orbit. The
 hybrid space plane's combined cycle engines would use turbofan or 
turbojet engines to takeoff horizontally from a landing strip. Once 
airborne, the engine then shifts to ramjet propulsion and, as speed 
increases, adjusts into a scramjet engine with supersonic airflow.  At 
the scramjet stage, the hybrid spaceplane would enter hypersonic flight 
in 'near space', the part of the atmosphere between 20km to 100km above 
sea level.  Finally, the hybrid spaceplane would use its rocket motors 
to push out of near space and into orbit.<br />

Broadcasts by both state television broadcaster CCTV, and its English
 service, note that the CASTC spaceplane's easy reusability would 
exponentially bring down space launch costs.<br />
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    The combined cycle engine shares the same inlet and exhaust 
nozzle for both the turbojet/turbofan and ramjet. In the upper diagram, 
the air intake ramps behind the ramjet spike direct airflow into the 
turbo core. In the bottom diagram, the air intake ramps gradually block 
off air flow to the turbo core, redirecting air into the ramjet 
combustion engine for high supersonic (Mach 3.0-Mach 4.0). Chinese 
combined cycle engines like this blueprint would be paired with a 
scramjet (presumably via changing the ramjet) and a separate rocket 
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    While the Skylon and the Chinese hypersonic space plane are both 
powered by combined cycle air breathing engines and rocket motors, the 
British Skylon uses pre-cooled jet engines built by Reaction Engines 
Limited to achieve hypersonic atmospheric flight, as opposed to 
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Zhang Yong, a CASTC engineer, claimed that China will 
master the spaceplane's technologies in the next three to five years, 
and a full-scale spaceplane would then enter service by 2030.<br />

Interestingly, another CASTC engineer, Yang Yang, mentioned that the 
spaceplane would improve "ease of access to space for untrained 
persons," as the space plane would have more gradual acceleration than a
 space launch rocket (reducing the physical strain on astronauts during 
takeoff), suggesting a version of the spaceplane which could be used for
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    The Missing Drone<br />

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    China was rumored to make the first flight of a Mach 4+ test 
drone in September 2015. Launched from an H-6 carrier aircraft, the 
drone fired up its combined cycle turbo-ramjet engine to accelerate from
 subsonic to high supersonic speeds. Given CASTC confidence in applying 
preexisting aeronautical experiments to build a working prototype by 
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Getting the complex technologies, like the combined cycle
 ramjet/turbo engine, in the reported timeline is an extremely ambitious
 target. Yet China is actually a world leader in a number of the key 
technologies for the project. In 2015, Professor Wang Zhengou was 
awarded the Feng Ru prize (China's top aeronautical medal) for his work 
in successfully developing and flying a scramjet engine, making China 
the second nation in the world after the United States to master 
scramjet technology. CASTC's rapid research timeline also suggests that 
the reports in 2015 of a Mach 4 test flight for a recoverable drone 
testbed for a combined cycle ramjet/turbofan engine were accurate. And 
China also has the world's largest hypersonic wind tunnel, the Mach 9 
JF-12, which could be used to easily test hypersonic scramjets without 
costly and potentially dangerous flight testing at altitude.<br />

China already has a variety of advanced solid-and liquid-fuelled 
space rockets and even China's historical weakness in turbine engines 
may not be a problem (the proven WS-10 turbofan is likely to provide 
enough thrust for the combined cycle engine's ramjet to take over). For 
CASTC, the biggest challenge may be in integrating all these components 
into a single propulsion package, as well as building an airframe light 
and strong enough to resist the rigors of hypersonic flight and 
atmospheric reentry<br />
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    This "what if" piece of CGI fan art from the Chinese Internet 
shows what a hypersonic military aircraft could look like; with a 
streamlined fuselage, a large ventral air intake and relatively small 
wings. (The artist imagines that this hypersonic bomber could carry a 
payload of eight tons.) Flying in near space (20km to 100km altitude), 
hypersonic aircraft can easily dodge existing air defenses (and they are
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systems to work well against them).<br />
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Whether the project meets with success within the 
targeted timeframe or it slips by several years, the results would be 
significant, and not just on the civilian side of any space race. In 
addition to increasing the rate of access and lowered costs for space 
launches, the Chinese military could draw direct military benefits from 
the combined cycle engine technology. Without the rocket motor 
component, the combined cycle engine would be a good fit to power 
hypersonic UAVs and manned aircraft. Flying in near space at speeds 
above Mach 5, such aircraft could have global reach, while their speed 
and high altitude would make them effectively immune to all existing air
 defense systems (though the turbine part of the engine would need to 
emphasis fuel efficiency and high thrust to weight).<br />
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    Shadow Dragon Hypersonic Bomber<br />

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    The Shadow Dragon hypersonic bomber concept, from the PLAAF's 
Engineering College, won a second prize in the 4th National Future 
Aircraft Design Competition at the 2010 Zhuhai Airshow. That the PLAAF 
has long been making such high profile public efforts to promote 
hypersonic and near space aircraft suggests that such systems are 
envisioned to be a key part of China's future arsenal. <i>Popular Science</i><br />
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Coming on the heels of other Chinese space advances, 
including the successful tests of a 3 meter diameter solid rocket 
booster, and the fuel turbopump for the LM-9 superheavy rocket, the 
present attention given to such a longterm project is notable.  The high
 profile broadcast of Chinese breakthroughs in space technologies 
suggests that, in addition to boosting Chinese prestige, the Chinese 
leadership is looking to raise public awareness and support to justify 
costly investments in next generation space technology like hybrid 
spaceplanes and super heavy "Moon" rockets.  Getting the first mover 
advantage in these aerospace milestones would definitely give China 
superpower status in both Earth and space. <i>Popular Science</i><br />
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Future aircraft could be powered by lasers and nuclear explosions if Boeing has its way. The aerospace firm claims a new-type of engine could produce energy-efficient thrust by firing lasers at radioactive material, such as deuterium and tritium. The technology could mean that planes and spaceships will require only a fraction of the power to operate, according to a recent patent filed by the company.<div class="imageCaption">
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The engine outlined in the <a class="" href="http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=09068562&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D9,068,562.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F9,068,562%2526RS%3DPN%2F9,068,562&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">patent </a>would work by using high-powered lasers to vaporise the radioactive material producing a fusion  reaction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'At
 least one laser is positioned to vapourise the propellanet with at 
least one laser-beam into a thrust producing flow,' the company wrote in
 the document. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A report in <a class="" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-just-patented-a-jet-engine-powered-by-lasers-and-nuclear-explosions-2015-7" id="ext-gen132" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Business Insider</a> compared the process to a small thermonuclear explosion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The by-products of the process would be hydrogen or helium, which would leave the back-end of the plane creating thrust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Meanwhile, the inside wall of the engine's thruster chamber will react with the neutrons created by the nuclear reaction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The resulting heat can then be harnessed by placing a coolant on the sides of the combustion chamber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The idea is to use this heat to produce electricity that can then drive the engine’s lasers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Other than the radioactive material, the engine requires very little in terms of external energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Boeing’s Dreamliner is currently driven by turbofan engines that compress air and ignite fuel to create thrust. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But it's expensive. The 787-8 Dreamliner. for instance, uses roughly $24.53 (£15.97) worth of fuel per nautical mile flown </span></div>
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 latest application, approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office last
 week, was filed by Boeing's Robert Budica, James Herzberg, and Frank 
Chandler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But it isn't just the mechanics of the plane that Boeing is hoping to revolutionise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In
 April, the company filed a patent for a bizarre 'upright' sleeping 
support system that could mean economy passengers can sleep on long-haul
 flights too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nicknamed
 the 'cuddle chair,' the somewhat comical idea could revolutionise the 
plane sleeping experience by eliminating the need for reclining seats at
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 looks like a backpack and fastens to the back of the headrest to allow 
passengers to lean forward and rest their face and chest on the 
contraption.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">According
 to the patent for the 'Transport Vehicle Upright Sleep Support System,'
 and illustrative animated video from website PatentYogi , the head 
cushion will have a 'face relief aperture,' which is essentially a 
face-front pillow with a hole for breathing.</span></div>
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further information or comment beyond what was detailed in the patent 
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