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The passage discusses a recent successful test flight of a scramjet aircraft by NASA that broke speed records. A scramjet uses oxygen from the atmosphere as its oxidizer, allowing it to fly at hypersonic speeds over Mach 5. This test flight lasted 11 seconds and reached over 5,000 mph, traveling over 15 miles in that short time. It smashed the previous record held by the Blackbird jet of just over 2,000 mph. The successful test represents a major advancement and could enable future hypersonic aircraft for b
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- Tran Phuong Linh
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- EN