
The Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) program, a U.S.-Australian effort to improve understanding of high-speed flight, plans to conduct its next flight test “in the next couple months,” according to a program representative.During the test, a scramjet built by the Australian government will be launched aboard a sounding rocket at Woomera test range in northwest South Australia, said Alex Maag, an aerospace engineer for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Aerospace Systems Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base…