The "scramjet" demonstrator is called
"HyShot". It's nominally run by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Queensland. The URL for their website is:

http://www.mech.uq.edu.au/hyper/hyshot/

The guy running the project is my old office mate of many years, Dr. Allan Paull. There's a picture of him (with his brother off in the corner) in a recent issue of "Aviation Week and Space Technology". Allan, his brother and dad are proof positive that intelligence is hereditary (all three guy are incredibly bright). Allan, his brother and dad put the payload together and did all the wiring for the telemetry (Allan designed the payload). Both Allan and his brother have written first rate papers on fundamental fluid mechanics in the "Journal of Fluid Mechanics" (best scientific journal on the planet concerning fluid phenomena). Allan's Ph.D. (like his brother's) is in mathematics (thesis advisor for both was Fenton Pillow).

The "scramjet" is really a hypersonic combuster. Calling it a "scramjet" was baloney for consumption by the news media (they'd get it wrong anyway). The design was derivative from some shock tunnel models that were developed by Prof. Ray Stalker (inventor of the reflective shock tunnel and big time player in hypersonics). At the University of Queensland, they have some of the world's premier shock tunnels and expansion tubes for research in hypersonics. The design of the HyShot hypersonic combuster was particularly cunning. It was actually two supersonic ducts that were symmetrical about the same flat plate leading edge. Both ducts were identically instrumented. However one duct had hydrogen injected into it while the other did not. I'm not sure if nothing was injected in the other duct or helium was injected into it. The design was to demonstrate pressure differences due to combustion between a fuel-on versus fuel-off condition. Getting funding for this sort of stuff is almost impossible. I would dare say the funding aspect was more difficult than the technical achievement (that says something!). If Allan were active in the late 1950s or early 1960s, he'd be the head of a major British/American university research group or a big wheel at NACA/NASA. However now a days, the best he can do is run a small team of dedicated guys in Australia. This is a major technical achievement done with almost no money. All praise goes to Allan and his family.

Gary