An inviscid, equilibrium air flow at hypersonic speeds past a cylinder is considered. The freestream Mach number ranges from 4.6 to 15. The objective is to develop a robust Euler solver for hypersonic flow calculations within the range of the freestream Mach number. An implicit total variation diminishing scheme (TVD) of Yee and Harten combining with an improved flux limiter of Liang et al. is employed for the Euler solver. Other flux limiters in TVD schemes were also tried. The results of using different values of the entropy correction coefficient involved in flux limiters are reported. The Euler solver was validated with experimental data at the Mach numbers of 4.6 and 8.06. It was found that the present solver is reasonably accurate.