Ultra high-speed flights one step closer after ‘groundbreaking’ reveal
A flight between London and New York could take less than an hour if top speeds are reached
www.independent.co.uk
‘Groundbreaking’ flights six-times faster than speed of sound one step closer..
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It would be great if they could do short haul as well. If you fancied a nice Italian meal, you could just pop to Rome for a day.
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Be interesting to know how much CO2 would be generated vs a standard 8 hour flight.
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Yeah, most of these sorts of things die because they're not actually commercially viable.
I keep seeing this video circulated on Reddit about how the Japanese have harness the power of walking to get free energy...no they didn't - it wasn't commercialy viable.
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What happened to that super fast train? Called Hyperloop or something like that.
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Something like Hyperloop is inevitable I think. A vac tube mag lev for instance would be far more efficient although capital intensive than an electric plane (assuming the technology ever scales). A 1000+mph through a dedicated tube is entirely feasible.
Elon Musk's ideas about it went nowhere and did nothing. And Virgin Hyperloop went out of business. But the Europeans have at least drawn up standards for the concept.
They've all been tried and canned (multiple times), rubbish idea.
Impractical, overcomplicated and overly expensive - better off with normal high speed trains on rails.
The time to get to and then thru the airport at both sides as it stands is a lot longer than the actually flight time.
Call me dumb but aren't these flights gonna be stressful on the passengers?
I mean I get excited taking off in an a320.
Going upto Mach 6 isn't that going to be a strain, and it would have to be pretty verticle too... No?
Lol
I mean I get excited taking off in an a320.
Going upto Mach 6 isn't that going to be a strain, and it would have to be pretty verticle too... No?
Lol
G-Force innit. You can go a billion miles an hour and not notice it, it's the acceleration that gets you. As long as it's slow and steady you've got nothing to worry about.
I do wonder what hitting a bird at mach 6 will do
I imagine the real problem with something like this, will be the cost of keeping it in the air safely - whilst making a profit.
Ages ago I did some work down at British Airways and went into the hangars there, ended up speaking with some of the techs who used to look after Concorde back in the day. Apparently it was a nightmare to keep in the sky due to the insane amounts of specialist maintenance it needed. It needed to be x-rayed, stripped - everything, way more than any other aircraft, which cost a fortune.
With stuff like the Airbus and Boeings, they have standard service schedules etc, etc - but the Concorde, everything was bespoke and 10x more expensive..
Ages ago I did some work down at British Airways and went into the hangars there, ended up speaking with some of the techs who used to look after Concorde back in the day. Apparently it was a nightmare to keep in the sky due to the insane amounts of specialist maintenance it needed. It needed to be x-rayed, stripped - everything, way more than any other aircraft, which cost a fortune.
With stuff like the Airbus and Boeings, they have standard service schedules etc, etc - but the Concorde, everything was bespoke and 10x more expensive..
I do wonder what hitting a bird at mach 6 will do
Concord used to climb above the height birds fly before accelerating to its cruise speed.
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The acceleration and deceleration would be insane for that distance to get up to speed.
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You can just about pop to central london for the day from living in london !