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Boeing demonstrator breaks hypersonic flight record

Boeing Co's X-51A Waverider made history this week when it achieved the longest hypersonic flight by a jet-fuel powered aircraft, flying for 3-1/2 minutes at five times the speed of sound, the U.S. Air Force said on Friday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...0DK1JQ20130503

Picture of it tucked under a B52