An experimental joint USAF/NASA aircraft, able to fly unpiloted.

a shape designed from a known supersonic or hypersonic flow field, such as flow past a right circular cone

A waverider is a hypersonic aircraft design that improves its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by producing a lifting surface built out of the shock waves being generated by its own flight, a technique known as compression lift. To date the only aircraft to use the technique is the Mach 3 supersonic XB-70 Valkyrie, which was waverider-like with its drooping wingtips. The waverider remains a well-studied design for high-speed aircraft in the Mach 5 and higher hypersonic regime, although no production design has used the concept to date.

Waverider is a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe. Created by Dan Jurgens, he first appeared in Armageddon 2001 #1 (1991). Waverider is currently a member of the Linear Men.

Surface-to-orbit spacecraft launched by high-power ground-based lasers.