Designed to reach speeds of Mach 8 and perform hypersonic skip-glide maneuvers, the X-24C was intended to utilize a combination of rocket engines and a hydrogen-fueled air-breathing ramjet/scramjet.

The HyperBLaF is a Mach 8 blowdown wind tunnel used for fundamental studies of compressible turbulence, shock wave/boundary layer interactions, shock/shock interactions and configuration studies of ...