The sky is the limit? I think not!

Holy shit, we have lift-off! The U.S. Airforce has successfully tested a scramjet engine, achieving a burn time of almost 200 seconds. This is almost 20 times as long as the last record of 12 seconds. The vehicle that was being used was able to reach Mach 6 speed! That's right, six times faster than the time it takes for you to hear the music coming from your speaker/headphones.

A scramjet is a type of ramjet engine that uses the high velocity of the vehicle itself to ingest air, rather than use the big turbines most jet engines use to compress air. This means less moving parts, less chances of failure, and faster speeds overall. Such engines will be ideal for flight above the Earth's atmosphere. This was reportedly the first of four tests to be conducted by the Airforce. The implications of this breakthrough are nothing short of immense.