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A plane 10 times faster than Concorde
- raattgift 10y ago"What a 16,000 mph airliner might look like" A tube full of pureed humans should even a small buffet be encountered in high speed flight. A debris field of charred parts should the heat shielding fail. Bits and pieces washing up on distant shores should a loss of control occur in flight.
- moron4hire 10y agoWe should get the engineers in contact with you. It seems you've identified some critical flaws they haven't considered.
- frgtpsswrdlame 10y agoWhat engineers? This is a conceptual design which will never ever be built and whose purpose is to provoke conversation.
- gus_massa 10y agoI don't like the style of the GP comment, but the plane discussed in the article is more a general idea than a detailed design that has been tested in simulations and just need some money to get build. If it were software, I'd classify it as vaporware.
- out_of_protocol 10y ago2,180 km/h x 10 = 21,800 km/h = 6 km/s Article claims 25600 km/h = 7 km/s (You need 7,9 km/s to go into space) Slightly not enough to fly into space. Once again, why do we need it?
- skykooler 10y agoMore accurately, you need 7.9 km/s to get into orbit. You can fly into space at a far lower speed of about 1.2 km/s; you just will fall back. That said; travelling at 7 km/s at 12 km seems ludicrous; air is over 100 times denser at that altitude than at 25 km, where the Space Shuttle reentered the atmosphere (at about the same velocity). So this aircraft would need two orders of magnitude better heat protection than the Space Shuttle. Not to mention the aerodynamic drag at these altitudes and velocities, which will be tremendous.
- out_of_protocol 10y agoExactly. ... And this is that article claims, right?
- skykooler 10y agoThe article claims an aircraft design. To meet such a design would require no less than a revolution in materials science.
- yongjik 10y agoFrom wikipedia, in case anyone else was also wondering who he is: > Charles Bombardier (born 1974) is a Canadian engineer, innovator and angel investor. who creates vehicle concepts and shares them openly with the world with his non profit Imaginactive.org. > Bombardier's grandfather was Joseph-Armand Bombardier, founder of Bombardier Inc. and Bombardier Recreational Products and inventor of the snowmobile. ...so, the rich grandson of a business founder who designs airplanes for fun. Not sure how seriously we can take his "designs".
- CPLX 10y agoYou're oddly leaving out the fact that Bombardier is a renowned Fortune 500 company, and a major manufacturer of airplanes.
- detaro 10y agoHe worked there for a few years on ground vehicles and then left, years before he started publishing these, there is no indication Bombardier the company has been involved with his designs in any way.
- yongjik 10y agoSorry, I thought most people knew Bombardier the airplane maker, but maybe I should have kept that info. In any case, Bombardier (the company) and Charles Bombardier don't seem to be in any business relationship...?
- Theodores 10y agoNext up, the BBC report on how Barron Trump wants to build a 10 mile high luxury office tower block, in gold. It does amaze me that the BBC report on these stories without providing the helpful information provided by you, do they think their audience only know Boeing and Airbus? Why do the brain farts of the 1% get an airing?
- jandrese 10y agoAt that speed you're basically just taking a ballistic missile to your destination. You can get anywhere in the world in a couple of hours, but the tickets cost more than a comfortable house in the suburbs.
- glxxyz 10y agoBrace for a hard landing.
- kylehotchkiss 10y agoLast time DARPA flew something at 17,000mph within the atmosphere, didn't it just sorta fall apart in the sky? And once you're moving that fast, aren't you more just destroying all the air particles instead of moving them so it's not really aerodynamics? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_speed#Classification_of_Mach_regimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_speed#Classificatio...
- beepboopbeep 10y agoAssuming it wasn't a concept... How would the passengers inside cope with that kind of acceleration (and I imagine, deceleration)?
- k__ 10y ago> London to New Zealand to little under 30 minutes Well, 2h would be enough for me. On the other hand, it's probably easier to control a 16,000mph plane for 30min than a 4,000mph plane for 2h.
- mrfusion 10y agoSurely they mean scramjet as opposed to ramjet at that speed.