The scientists claim that the hypersonic aircraft prototype with a rather bulky body reached the speed of Mach 6.56 in flight test.
The lead researcher of the project stated that it was a 20-minute test flight but it addressed a big problem for aircraft designers.Scientists in China have announced that a jumbo jet prototype built by them had managed to reach hypersonic speeds during a flight test.
The test flight results had been kept a secret by the institute and authorities in China owing to the sensitivity of the project. The speech was from an event in Beijing held in October in which Cui had revealed the test results and the process which his team followed.Earlier in 2013, Cai and his team had revealed a conceptual configuration of the jumbo jet aircraft which they predicted would be able to fly at hypersonic speeds.
They carried out the test flight at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert of northwest China in August 2021.report describes Cui stating that it was a 20-minute test flight but it addressed a big problem for aircraft designers.
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