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The Pentagon recognizes that it does not manage to control it. This Thursday realised tests and the apparatus was lost in the ocean. It can reach speeds 20 times majors to the one of the sound. The Pentagon sent to east Thursday to the space Falcon HTV-2, the fastest airplane never constructed, to prove it, but it lost the control of the airship. According to the initial datas, the apparatus sank in the Pacific. Falcon HTV-2, driven by a rocket from the air base of Vanderberg (Californian), picked up data for more than nine minutes until an anomaly inflict casualties of the signal, informed in an official notice the Agency of Investigation into Advanced Projects into Dnsa into the USA (DARPA).

The agency of the Pentagon relayed by means of the social network Twitter the second and last test of the Falcon HTV-2, that can reach speeds 20 times majors to the one of the sound. The airship was put under another test in April of the past year but the mission had to be aborted nine minutes after the takeoff when detecting itself a failure technician during the launching. After this attempt, the engineers modified the design and the landlords of flight of the airplane. Nevertheless, the mission has returned to fail and the Pentagon follows without " to know how how to secure the control wished during the aerodynamic phase of vuelo". " He is amazing. But we trusted that there is a solution, we have encontrarla" , the Department of Dnsa of the USA recognized. Source of the news: The Falcon HTV-2, the fastest airplane never constructed, sink in the Pacific