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Tango0121 Feb 2018 1:09 p.m. PST

… Unveil Hypersonic Jet Design.

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Chinese researchers have unveiled a hypersonic plane design to take cargo and passengers from Beijing to New York in about two hours, one-seventh of the time it currently takes to make the trip.


"It will take only a couple hours to travel from Beijing to New York at hypersonic speed," researcher Cui Kai said in a paper published in February by Science China Press in the journal Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy. Researchers are planning for the plane to reach speeds of nearly 6,000 km per hour. The route a normal passenger jet takes from Beijing to New York is about 11,000 km and takes around 14 hours…."

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15mm and 28mm Fanatik21 Feb 2018 2:56 p.m. PST

Looks like a kite.

Pan Marek21 Feb 2018 3:55 p.m. PST

When it makes its maiden flight without crashing, I'll pay attention.

USAFpilot21 Feb 2018 6:22 p.m. PST

The Concord cruised at 1,354mph (2,179kph). The Concord stopped flying soon after one crashed. Bookings went down and maintenance costs went up.

It will come down to economics.

Tango0122 Feb 2018 11:04 a.m. PST

(smile)

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