Research aircraft that used rocket engines or scramjets to break speed barriers, from the first supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 to the unmanned hypersonic test vehicles of the 2000s. An entry belongs here when the cited article names a rocket-powered, hypersonic or scramjet research aircraft. It excludes jet-powered research aircraft and vertical-takeoff test machines. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Bell X-1
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The Bell X-1 (Bell Model 44) is a rocket engine-powered aircraft
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The Bell X-1 (Bell Model 44) is a rocket engine-powered aircraft, designated originally as the XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics-U.S.
View the Source North American X-15 - Wikipedia
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The North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft formerly operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft.
Bell X-2 - Wikipedia
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The Bell X-2 (nicknamed "Starbuster") was an X-plane research aircraft built to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2-3 range.
NASA X-43, Wikipedia
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The NASA X-43 was an experimental unmanned hypersonic aircraft with multiple planned scale variations meant to test various aspects of hypersonic flight.
Boeing X-51 Waverider (Wikipedia)
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The Boeing X-51 Waverider is an unmanned research scramjet experimental aircraft for hypersonic flight at Mach 5 (3,300 mph; 5,300 km/h) and an altitude of 70,000 feet (21,000 m).
Northrop HL-10 (Wikipedia)
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The Northrop HL-10 is one of five U.S. heavyweight lifting body designs flown at NASA's Flight Research Center (FRC-later the Dryden Flight Research Center and now the Armstrong Flight Research Center) in Edwards, California, from July 1966 to November 1975 to study and validate the concept of safely maneuvering and landing a low lift-over-drag vehicle designed for reentry from space.
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