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Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, has completed its first successful test of a prototype jet that can fly at twice the speed of sound, three years after an test ended in a wreck. The prototype 38-foot-long, arrow-shaped craft was launched on a rocket and reached a flying altitude of 11 miles before floating back to Earth by parachute. Japan has a limited airplane industry.
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Transportation in brief is compiled from the notebooks of Jim Mateja and Rick Popely, and from Tribune news services.
