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Plans For Hypersonic Planes That Travel New York – London In ONE Hour

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The Air Force have announced plans to produce hypersonic planes that are capable of crossing countries in a matter of minutes by the year 2023.

The planes, which will initially be military in nature, will eventually be made into commercial passenger planes that will be capable of travelling from New York to London in just one hour.

Experimental unmanned aircraft developed for the U.S. Air Force have already gone hypersonic during tests off the Southern California coast, flying at more than five times the speed of sound.

The Air Force said Friday the X-51A WaveRider flew for more than three minutes under power from its exotic scramjet engine and hit a speed of Mach 5.1 last year.

http://yournewswire.com/plans-for-hypersonic-planes-that-travel-new-york-london-in-one-hour/

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They're selling faster commercial flights, but at the end of the day are making smarter and faster deployment vehicles for WMD's.

It's a minor concern though, since the arms race among super powers has become irrelevant in real terms and is now just a sucklage of public funding; well it's always been that.

The problem for scramjet technology, which has been around for decades, to go further has been fuel cost. It burns fuel at a high rate and it costs 3-4x as much as regular jet fuel.

For now it's just going to be hypersonic missiles or other unmanned craft. Lesser payload-to-fuel ratio. They're looking into it now because of the advances in drone technology. Commercial flights are a pipe dream. It cost $100,000 per hour to fly the SR-71 blackbird using the same fuel. Commercial flights by 2023? Lol! Maybe if they count James Bond as a commercial passenger.

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Col. John Paul Stapp proved in the 1950's the human body could withstand even up to 40g's. When the textbooks said 12 g's was lethal. The guy is a hero to me. He was a doctor at the aero-med lab. He would not put anyone through something that he wasn't willing to do.

This dude is a wimp by comparison.

He also coined Stapp's Paradox:

"The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."

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They had supersonic passenger service with Concorde in the 70's. Residences hated the sonic booms they made on approach.

Concorde was never economically viable. They lost money every step of the way in development, in manufacturing and during their service runs. it was a joint venture between British and French companies with heavy governmental support from both countries. British Airways and Air France were the only companies to fly them and only purchased them due to heavy government subsidies. They were never profitable.

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They had supersonic passenger service with Concorde in the 70's. Residences hated the sonic booms they made on approach.

Plus the engines are just loud in general.

Then again, lol @ people who move next to an airport by their own free will then complain about the noise.

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