A research team in China has built and tested a prototype hypersonic flight engine based on a bold design by a Nasa scientist more than two decades ago, the South China Morning Post reported.
Unlike most hypersonic aircraft with an engine in the belly, the X-plane proposed by Ming Han Tang – then chief engineer of Nasa’s hypersonic programme in the late 1990s – was driven by two separate engines on the sides.
Read the full report: South China Morning Post
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