The incredible story of a lucky SR-71 pilot who survived to a Blackbird disintegration at Mach 3+ Built as a strategic reconnaissance aircraft able to fly at 88,000 feet and Mach 3, the iconic ...

Unstart: An abrupt breakdown in inlet performance typically induced by adverse shock–boundary layer interactions, leading to flow separation and engine instability.

The unsteady flow and combustion phenomena leading up to unstart in a model scramjet engine were investigated through high-speed Schlieren visualizations using CAVILUX Smart laser and OH* ...

This is an account of a supersonic engine inlet failure, or “unstart,” recalled by retired reconnaissance systems officer Roger Jacks in SR-71 Revealed, a book by retired Lockheed SR-71 pilot ...

The second flight of the hypersonic Boeing X-51 waverider ended prematurely due to an inlet unstart. The aircraft made a controlled crash into the Pacific Ocean off the California coast on 13 June.