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B-52 Mothership Carries Second X-43A Aloft

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Sep 27, 2009
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B-52 Mothership Carries Second X-43A Aloft
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket left the runway, carried aloft by NASA's B-52B launch aircraft from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA, on March 27, 2004.

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The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket left the runway, carried aloft by NASA’s B-52B launch aircraft from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA, on March 27, 2004. About an hour later the Pegasus booster was launched from the B-52 to accelerate the X-43A to its intended speed of Mach 7.March 27, 2004NASA Photo / Tom Tschida› X-43A Project Description