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Twice as fast as Concorde: Supersonic jet will fly from London to NY in 2 hours
- maxcan 13y agono, it won't.
- haptiK 13y agoAs someone who has actually flown on the Concorde, I certainly hope it will. Your negative attitude is what's wrong with the world today.
- maxcan 13y agos/flown/ridden/. FTFY. I'm going to guess you weren't at the controls. Also, fair point. I have personally been holding back private supersonic travel for decades. I killed the 2707 a few years before my birth and worse than that, I personally lifted 2 billion Indians and Chinese out of poverty solely to cause demand for fuel (and thus prices) to skyrocket so that in case anyone managed to build an SST, it would be uneconomical. I'm the inspiration for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZI_aEalijE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZI_aEalijE P.S. I'm a pilot who flies (not just rides) planes and I'd love to fly or ride this thing, doesn't mean it will ever happen.
- haptiK 13y agoLOL, I understand the difference and I'm sorry for mixing that up. I did in fact fly in the cockpit for some of the journey, but no I was not at the controls. I was also only 9 years old.
- jds375 13y agoThis is pretty cool, but they have their competition cut out for them. Also check out the Aerion SBJ, which is a very similar concept: http://www.forbes.com/sites/grantmartin/2013/10/31/the-worlds-first-supersonic-business-jet-will-fly-in-2021/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/grantmartin/2013/10/31/the-world... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerion_SBJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerion_SBJ
- jonmrodriguez 13y agoFrom the same news company that brought you "Are aliens getting less camera shy? UFOs filmed above BBC building in London" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2008437/UFOs-filmed-BBC-building-London.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2008437/UFOs-...
- asdfaoeu 13y agoClearly it was a mistake they were just testing out the supersonic jets.
- ricardobeat 13y agoTitle is missing the (2011) tag.
- NamTaf 13y agoYeh for some reason this was linked by a mate on facebook too, I don't know what's promoted it to go around again but it's odd that it is, given it's 2.5 years old. Anyway, I laughed at this great line: "It will be able to cruise at Mach 3.1, a speed made possible by S-MAGJET hybrid gas turbine engine technology; nobody has ever travelled that fast before." Right, because man has never gone to space and the SR-71 is just a fairytale.
- jonmrodriguez 13y agoIt was on reddit, it being here is a repost of that
- AVTizzle 13y ago"Our plan is to build and fly the world’s first very high speed supersonic hybrid aircraft by June 2021." June 2021. At first, I thought "2021" sounds like the incomprehensibly distant future. Then I realized that was only 7 years, the same distance from the present as 2006 is. Then I felt old. Wow, it's 2014.
- zhaphod 13y agoWe will see Buckbeak {Hippogriff} flying in the sky before this.