Download or read book Road to Mach 10 written by Curtis Peebles and published by AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics). This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length test-flight history of the X-43 project, written by the project historian at Dryden Flight Research Center. The project achieved the first in-flight testing of a scramjet engine, at speeds of nearly Mach 7 and Mach 10.