'Scramjet engines don't just have fewer moving parts, they have no moving parts at all,' said Professor Michael Smart, mechanical engineer, director of Hypersonix and head of UQ's HyShot Group. The X-43A undergoing radio frequency tests. This would make them easier to engineer, yes? Scramjet Just fifteen seconds was all it came down to after more than a decade of preparation for the HyShot hypersonic test flight. The short burn of hydrogen and atmospheric oxygen in a scramjet engine in July 2002 was the world's first field flight ignition of a scramjet, and crossed a major hurdle towards viable hypersonic aircraft.
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Inventor: The University of Queensland
Imagine a jet engine that doesn't pollute the atmosphere, flies at seven times the speed of sound and doesn't carry any fuel. Sound like a blue-sky pipe dream? One day last July, 300 km above the South Australian Desert, that dream became a reality in the form of the HyShot scramjet. A scramjet (that's top-gun shorthand for 'supersonic ramjet') is a jet engine that is powered by oxygen it scoops out of the air as it flies, so it's not weighed down by a fuel tank (though it needs an initial boost to get going). This summer's launch represents the first time a scramjet has flown outside of a wind tunnel. It will take years of work before scramjets are available for practical uses, but they could eventually revolutionize space launches and commercial flights. At Mach 7, New York City to Tokyo is just a two-hour hop.
Availability: Alas, commercial flights are still many years away
To Learn More: www.mech.uq.edu.au/hyper/hyshot
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The Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) program investigated the fundamental science of hypersonics technology and its potential for next generation aeronautical systems. It was to designed to involve up to ten flights. HIFiRE was jointly established by DSTO and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
UQ was involved in three flights in the HIFiRE program. These tests wera also known as HyShot, V, VI and VII. The flights were planned for launch at Woomera in South Australia, or an alternative range in Andoya, Norway. The three flights were funded by a $8.5 million Smart State National and International Research Alliances partnership between UQ, the Queensland Government, Boeing and DSTO (2007-2017) . This international collaboration allowed UQ to build advanced scramjet prototypes and undertake prolonged flight tests at speeds of more than Mach 8.
HyShot V (HIFiRE 4)— A free-flying hypersonic glider
Hyshot Scramjet
HyShot V was a hypersonic waverider designed to fly at Mach 8 (8000 km/hr). It was designed to separate from its rocket booster in space and perform controlled manoeuvres as it entered the atmosphere. This flight did not have a scramjet attached. It was about learning how to fly a hypersonic vehicle at high altitude.
This test flight was successfully completed in July 2017. Read the full story here
HyShot VI (HIFiRE 7) — A free-flying Mach 8 scramjet
HyShot VI flew on 30 March 2015. It used an up-and-down trajectory similar to HyShot flights 1-IV, but the scramjet engine separated from the rocket and entered the atmosphere on its own at about Mach 8. The scramjet was one of the new breed of three-dimensional engines designed by UQ. The HIFiRE team collected data for the flight until the payload was re-entering the atmosphere at 65 km, when telemetry was lost. Unfortunately no scramjet engine data was able to be collected.
HyShot VII (HIFiRE 8) - Sustained Mach 8 Scramjet Powered Flight
HyShot VII was to be the culmination of the other two flights. It was to be a scramjet-powered waverider vehicle and its design made use of the information learned from HyShot V and VI. A depressed trajectory was to be used for this flight and the HyShot team planned to fly the scramjet-powered vehicle horizontally for up to a minute at Mach 8. This compares with the brief experimental window of about 5 seconds for HyShot I-IV and VI. The HIFiRE program ended before the vehicle could be flown.
Hyshot Scramjet
HIFiRE 7 payload
HIFiRE 8 payload
'Scramjet engines don't just have fewer moving parts, they have no moving parts at all,' said Professor Michael Smart, mechanical engineer, director of Hypersonix and head of UQ's HyShot Group. The X-43A undergoing radio frequency tests. This would make them easier to engineer, yes? Scramjet Just fifteen seconds was all it came down to after more than a decade of preparation for the HyShot hypersonic test flight. The short burn of hydrogen and atmospheric oxygen in a scramjet engine in July 2002 was the world's first field flight ignition of a scramjet, and crossed a major hurdle towards viable hypersonic aircraft.
Oj case facts. Simpson murder case (officially The People of the State of California v.Orenthal James Simpson) was a criminal trial held in Los Angeles County Superior Court.Former National Football League (NFL) player, broadcaster and actor O. Simpson was tried and acquitted on two counts of murder for the June 12, 1994, slashing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her. 16 Facts About the OJ Simpson You Have Never Heard Before OJ on the run The OJ Simpson case was called the Case of the Century. It has spawned movies, television series, books, documentaries and even a 'novel' from Simpson himself called If I Did It.
Inventor: The University of Queensland
Imagine a jet engine that doesn't pollute the atmosphere, flies at seven times the speed of sound and doesn't carry any fuel. Sound like a blue-sky pipe dream? One day last July, 300 km above the South Australian Desert, that dream became a reality in the form of the HyShot scramjet. A scramjet (that's top-gun shorthand for 'supersonic ramjet') is a jet engine that is powered by oxygen it scoops out of the air as it flies, so it's not weighed down by a fuel tank (though it needs an initial boost to get going). This summer's launch represents the first time a scramjet has flown outside of a wind tunnel. It will take years of work before scramjets are available for practical uses, but they could eventually revolutionize space launches and commercial flights. At Mach 7, New York City to Tokyo is just a two-hour hop.
Availability: Alas, commercial flights are still many years away
To Learn More: www.mech.uq.edu.au/hyper/hyshot
NextTrikke Scooter
The Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) program investigated the fundamental science of hypersonics technology and its potential for next generation aeronautical systems. It was to designed to involve up to ten flights. HIFiRE was jointly established by DSTO and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
UQ was involved in three flights in the HIFiRE program. These tests wera also known as HyShot, V, VI and VII. The flights were planned for launch at Woomera in South Australia, or an alternative range in Andoya, Norway. The three flights were funded by a $8.5 million Smart State National and International Research Alliances partnership between UQ, the Queensland Government, Boeing and DSTO (2007-2017) . This international collaboration allowed UQ to build advanced scramjet prototypes and undertake prolonged flight tests at speeds of more than Mach 8.
HyShot V (HIFiRE 4)— A free-flying hypersonic glider
Hyshot Scramjet
HyShot V was a hypersonic waverider designed to fly at Mach 8 (8000 km/hr). It was designed to separate from its rocket booster in space and perform controlled manoeuvres as it entered the atmosphere. This flight did not have a scramjet attached. It was about learning how to fly a hypersonic vehicle at high altitude.
This test flight was successfully completed in July 2017. Read the full story here
HyShot VI (HIFiRE 7) — A free-flying Mach 8 scramjet
HyShot VI flew on 30 March 2015. It used an up-and-down trajectory similar to HyShot flights 1-IV, but the scramjet engine separated from the rocket and entered the atmosphere on its own at about Mach 8. The scramjet was one of the new breed of three-dimensional engines designed by UQ. The HIFiRE team collected data for the flight until the payload was re-entering the atmosphere at 65 km, when telemetry was lost. Unfortunately no scramjet engine data was able to be collected.
HyShot VII (HIFiRE 8) - Sustained Mach 8 Scramjet Powered Flight
HyShot VII was to be the culmination of the other two flights. It was to be a scramjet-powered waverider vehicle and its design made use of the information learned from HyShot V and VI. A depressed trajectory was to be used for this flight and the HyShot team planned to fly the scramjet-powered vehicle horizontally for up to a minute at Mach 8. This compares with the brief experimental window of about 5 seconds for HyShot I-IV and VI. The HIFiRE program ended before the vehicle could be flown.
Hyshot Scramjet
HIFiRE 7 payload
HIFiRE 8 payload
HIFire 7 on the launch pad
