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Success! Japan's New Supersonic Prototype Works

Aircraft Landed "Normally"

Three years after a Japanese supersonic transport prototype crashed in flames in the Australian Outback, scientists successfully launched another SST forerunner -- and this time, it worked.

Everything was very good and the aircraft landed... normally," JAXA spokesman Kenichi Saito told the Associated Press in a telephone interview. "We are going to conduct the (data) analysis, but currently we think this flight was a success."

If Japan has its way, the SST would begin regular flights two decades from now, the only aircraft on the drawing board to replace Europe's Concorde. It would have significantly more capacity than the Concorde -- capable of carrying up to 300 passengers.

Monday's $10 million experiment was seen as a crucial step in that direction. The unmanned prototype, launched aboard a rocket to an altitude of 11 miles, reached a speed of Mach 2.6 before floating gently to the ground under a parachute.

If it looks a little like the Concorde, it's because that venerable British-French aircraft might be considered a predecessor to the Japanese model. As Aero-News reported in August, the "next-generation Concorde" is heavily influenced by French assistance in the design and execution of the prototype project.

FMI: www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html

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