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ONERA missiles and rockets from an old 1960s magazine:
 

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ONERA Bérénice.

I'm still not sure whether this topic would be more fit in the "Space" section or not.
 

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We don't have much about the Stataltex. That thing hold the airbreathing speed and height records from 1964 until the 1990's, when scramjets were made to work at last (Kholod, X-43, X-51). Stataltex flew at Mach 5 and 39 km (128 000 feet). For the record, in 1958 the X-7A-3 with a RJ59 ramjet hit Mach 4.31 and 106 000 feet.

There were ten Stataltex flights from 1960 to 1964. I've found a (crude) graph of velocities and altitude from the successfull flights (flight 3 and 4 are not present, you bet they were failures: no data; same for flight 10 ?)

From this (huge) paper, mercifully available at the Internet Archive (page 55 of the Pdf)


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Flight 1 Mach 4+ at 12 km (partial failure ?)
Flight 2 Mach 4.7 at 18 km
Flight 3 --
Flight 4 --
Flight 5 Mach 4.6 up to 39 km
Flight 6 Mach 5 up to 30 km
Flight 7 Mach 4.5 at 12 km (probably a partial failure)
Flight 8 Mach 4,8 at 18 km
Flight 9 Mach 5, 12 km
Flight 10 ? no data
 
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Some date I have found for the flights (doubtful !)

Stataltex
Flight 1 November 28, 1961
Flight 6 December 19, 1961 (doubtful, Flight 5 to 39 km was in 1962)
Flight 10 1964
 
Can't fit the full name of ONERA (Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales), or it's original name, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aéronautiques, into a tag, drats.
 

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