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A WaveRider is a hypersonic aircraft design that improves its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by using the shock waves being generated by its own flight as a lifting surface, a phenomenon known as compression lift. To date the only manned aircraft to use the technique was the Mach 3 supersonic XB-70 Valkyrie.
The waverider remains a well-studied design for high-speed aircraft in the Mach 5 and higher hypersonic regime, although no such design has yet entered production. The Boeing X-51A scramjet demonstration aircraft was tested from 2010 to 2013. In its final test flight, it reached a speed of to .
Waverider is a fictional superhero in the DC Comics universe, a time traveler who was merged with the time stream, created by Archie Goodwin and Dan Jurgens. The first version of the character, Matthew Ryder, first appeared in Armageddon 2001 #1 (May 1991).
A second version of the character first appeared in Convergence: Booster Gold #2 (July 2015) as a reborn version of the pre- Flashpoint Booster Gold. After his transformation, he is instrumental to saving the multiverse in Convergence #8. His powers are the same as the original Waverider but with the knowledge and history of Booster Gold.
Waverider is an fictional character from the Transformers series. He is an Autobot Pretender who turns into a boat.
A waverider is a type of hypersonic aircraft that takes advantage of compression lift from its own shock wave.
Waverider may also refer to:
- Boeing X-51 Waverider, a hypersonic research aircraft
- Waverider (comics), a DC Comics superhero
- Waverider (Transformers), a character from the Hasbro toy line
- Wave Rider a series of ocean-going robots by Liquid Robotics