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Volume 46 | Issue 7| August 2004
People and Places
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Fresh from a record-setting Mach 6.8 X-43A scramjet flight success this March, engineers from Dryden and Langley Research Center on July 28 told a standing-room-only crowd at the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual AirVenture event what it was like to operate the first successful scramjet-powered flight vehicle. Using Dryden video to reprise the March 27 launch, the presenters at Oshkosh also used actual flight data to prepare remarkable computer-generated video graphics depicting every movement of the hypersonic craft as it flew where no chase plane could follow.
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- Call them Dryden's farm team, the on-deck circle, the stars' understudies - they're the teens and young adults in the student programs conducted here and at NASA centers around the country every year. Designed to keep a steady stream of potential employees in the pipeline, the programs offer a chance for high school and university students from all over the U.S. to spend time - usually, in the summer - working at NASA and laying the groundwork for future employment.
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