New Technology Could Make It Possible To Fly Anywhere In The World In 4 Hours

[longknife]

Alex Davies Jul. 16, 2013,

British aerospace firm Reaction Engines is working on an aircraft it believes would be able to take passengers anywhere in the world in just four hours.

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They say the major drawback is that it has no windows. I'm certain they'll provide live video to the passengers. And, probably another case where take off and landing take up more time than the actual flight. And I'm certain the tree-huggers will do their best to scrap it like they did the SST.

 

[ScienceRocks]

This is getting closer to the holy grail of surface to orbit space flight. Would like to see it evolve more with time to include those windows.

The best we have is the grass hopper concept. The Skylon has a huge advantage as it can do everything the airplane+space shuttle can do. When you're talking moving people around. Briton may in fact have us beat on this one.

 

[rdean]

Science, education and government makes this possible. Three things Republicans despise.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Science, education and government makes this possible. Three things Republicans despise.

It hurts to agree with you on this one.