Vahe Demirjian
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X-plane gurus are occasionally familiar with the Lockheed L-301 project for a scramjet-powered experimental aircraft, and it's too bad that NASA halted the L-301 program for budgetary and other reasons, because the L-301 would have been a quantum leap in air-breathing flight in terms of flying faster than the A-12/SR-71 family and X-15. Just imagine, what would the history of high-speed air-breathing flight have been like if the L-301 had been built and one L-301 airframe set an all-time speed record for a manned air-breathing aircraft by reaching Mach 8 (6,138 mph), considering that the X-43 is the fastest air-breathing airplane ever built?
