Talk:NASA X-43
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Hey, what about a decent picture of the thing? one where it's shown fully and at a relatively short distance?
Anyone know if the X-43 was a waverider as describe in waverider. The page claims that the Valkyrie was the only aircraft to have used the principle but it seems to me that the X-43A would also fit the description. Perhas a more knowledgeable person can enlighten us.
I removed the following table, as it seemed to add nothing but a sense of incompleteness:
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Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 12:57, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] merging
there is a much less developed page at hyper x ~~
I would recommend removing the hyper x page altogether- it gives no further infromation.
[edit] NASA X-43
This item should be titled the "NASA X-43", not Boeing X-43. Boeing was a major contributor but was, in fact, not the prime contractor. The prime contractor for X-43 is Alliant Techsystems (ATK).
[edit] Ramjet vs. Scramjet
I changed the first 'scramjet' in the description of the X-43b to ramjet as it was listed twice and scramjets are not efficient under Mach 5 or 6 --JPredham 00:44, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Broken links?
Some of the external links on this page are broken. I just thought somebody might want to know. -Kanerix —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.171.115.71 (talk) 18:16, 14 February 2007 (UTC).
[edit] NASA X-43
Yes, this title *SHOULD* be changed. While Boeing had a hand in the X-43 research vehicle "RV" it was not the prime contractor, a company called MicroCraft, which later became park of Alliant Tech (ATK) in Tullahoma, TN was the prime on on the Research Vechile. The Launch Vehicle "LV" was a pegasus rocket by Orbital Sciences (prime on the LV). Since there were two "primes contractors," NASA acted as the integrator or "lead prime" organization. Typically credit is given to the company/agency that acts as the top level integrator for the vehicle. Further, it was NASA's design. While Boeing was involved, they were a sub to the RV contractor (MicroCraft). It would be like calling it the Goodyear Corvette (since they make the tires for it). For those of us that worked on the project giving Boeing the top billing for this is offensive.
