<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d0de3e26-345e-4026-8995-72ed23951715/C22896A0-5D2A-42AE-96E8-B4E9409E3347/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bustachange.com/the-hypersonic-scramjet-ny-to-tokyo-in-2h/" href="http://www.bustachange.com/the-hypersonic-scramjet-ny-to-tokyo-in-2h/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bustachange.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bustachange.com/the-hypersonic-scramjet-ny-to-tokyo-in-2h/"><H2 class="posttitle"> <A title="Permalink to The Hypersonic Scramjet: NY to Tokyo in 2h" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.bustachange.com/the-hypersonic-scramjet-ny-to-tokyo-in-2h/">The Hypersonic Scramjet: NY to Tokyo in 2h</A> </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bustachange.com/the-hypersonic-scramjet-ny-to-tokyo-in-2h/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bustachange.com/img/1520A725-7926-44DD-99DB-B276609B5B93" alt="Scramjet HTV-3X Blackswift" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bustachange.com/the-hypersonic-scramjet-ny-to-tokyo-in-2h/"><P>So just how fast is a <A sabprocessed="1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet">scramjet</A>? You may need a bit of comparison:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bustachange.com/the-hypersonic-scramjet-ny-to-tokyo-in-2h/"><UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A Boeing 747 cruises at <EM>567 mph (Mach 0.85)</EM>.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The Concorde was capable of speeds of up to <EM>1,330 mph (Mach 2.02)</EM>.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">An F-14 Tomcat maxes out at <EM>1,544 mph (Mach 2.34)</EM>.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The SR-71 Blackbird holds the speed record: <EM>2,511 mph (Mach 3.3)</EM>.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Scramjets are projected at <STRONG>Mach 15, that’s upwards of 10,000 mph</STRONG>.</LI> </UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C22896A0-5D2A-42AE-96E8-B4E9409E3347/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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