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    NASA has selected Allied Aerospace Industries to provide three flight-ready hypersonic vehicles as part of the X-43C project to expand testing of air-breathing engines. The multi-year $150 million contract will demonstrate scramjet-powered flight from Mach 5 to Mach 7. NASA's Langley Research Center is leading the project and the vehicles will launch from Dryden Flight Research Center, accelerating to Mach 7 under autonomous control to validate technologies for future reusable space access vehicles.

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    NASA has selected Allied Aerospace Industries to provide three flight-ready hypersonic vehicles as part of the X-43C project to expand testing of air-breathing engines. The multi-year $150 million contract will demonstrate scramjet-powered flight from Mach 5 to Mach 7. NASA's Langley Research Center is leading the project and the vehicles will launch from Dryden Flight Research Center, accelerating to Mach 7 under autonomous control to validate technologies for future reusable space access vehicles.

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    NewsRelease

    National Aeronautics and


    Space Administration
    Langley Research Center
    Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001

    Michael Braukus For Release: October 8, 2003


    Headquarters, Washington, DC
    202/358-1979

    Keith Henry
    Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
    757/864-6120

    Leslie Williams
    Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.
    661/276-3893

    RELEASE NO. 03-067

    NASA SELECTS ALLIED TEAM TO PROVIDE HYPERSONIC VEHICLES

    NASA has selected Allied Aerospace Industries of Tullahoma, Tenn., to provide three
    flight-ready demonstrator vehicles that will fly approximately 5,000 miles per hour or seven
    times the speed of sound. The multi-year project, called X-43C, will expand the hypersonic
    flight envelope for air-breathing engines.

    The cost-plus-fixed-fee completion type contract carries performance incentives and is


    valued at nearly $150 million over 66 months. The base activity covers all work through
    completion of the Preliminary Design Review, and the optional effort covers the final
    design, hardware fabrication and all associated support activities.

    The X-43C is the next logical step, following the current Hyper-X (X-43A) vehicle that aims
    at demonstrating short duration scramjet powered flight at Mach 7 and Mach 10. The X-
    43C will demonstrate free flight of a scramjet-powered vehicle with acceleration capability
    from Mach 5 to Mach 7, as well as operation of a hydrocarbon fuel-cooled scramjet.

    NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., is leading a combined U.S. Air
    Force/industry team in the design and development of the X-43C demonstrator vehicle
    and its propulsion system. The engine, which will be provided by the Air Force, will be a
    dual-mode scramjet capable of running as a ramjet or scramjet.

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    Allied Aerospace, Flight Systems Division, will team with Pratt & Whitney, West Palm
    Beach, Fla.; Boeing Phantom Works, Huntington Beach, Calif.; and RJK Technologies,
    Blacksburg, Va.

    Work will be performed primarily in Tullahoma and West Palm Beach, although some
    contract work will also take place at Huntington Beach, Blacksburg and St. Louis, Mo., and
    at Langley and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.

    Future air-breathing space access vehicles offer advantages over conventional rocket-
    powered vehicles that must carry all of the oxidizer needed to burn their fuel. Air-breathing
    engine-powered vehicles obtain oxygen from the atmosphere in flight. By minimizing the
    need to carry oxidizer, smaller and more efficient vehicles can be designed for space
    access missions.

    "When fully developed, these advanced propulsion systems will offer increased safety,
    payload capacity and economy of operation for future, reusable space access vehicles,"
    said Paul Moses, manager of the X-43C project. "The X-43C project will validate advanced
    technologies, design tools and test techniques that will enable design of such vehicles in
    the future," he said.

    For the three demonstration flights, a Pegasus-derived rocket booster will be air-launched
    by a carrier aircraft to boost the X-43C demonstrator vehicles to Mach 5 at approximately
    80,000 feet. The X-43C will separate from the booster and continue to accelerate to Mach
    7 under its own power and autonomous control.

    Flights will originate from Dryden/Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Flight paths of the
    vehicles will be over water within the Pacific Test Range.

    For more information about NASA on the Internet, visit

    www.nasa.gov

    -end-

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