aye but imagine if it took a year to get there, you wouldn't notice the time difference then
‘Groundbreaking’ flights six-times faster than speed of sound one step closer..
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Caporegime
That makes no sense.
Fly from Tokyo to London, it used to be like a 12hr flight before the war, time difference 7hrs. So you only “use” 5hrs, meaning get on the plane at midday and you can land at 5pm.
But your body won’t think it’s 5pm, it will think it’s midnight because you spent 12hrs getting there. Time passes by the same (let’s not go into time differs due to gravitational force, interstellar style topic).
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Caporegime
You're right, my brain can't math on the weekend it seems.
If you fly for 5 hours and travel 5 timezones, you effectively freeze time, even though your brain will still have experienced 5 hours of time progression.
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Emirates have just announced a $3Bn upgrade to their entire 116 aircraft fleet. They certainly don't think that it is a dead airframe.
Caporegime
What about operators that are not state sponsored with oil?
Things are better faster
Alsong as it was safe. I would really want a go on one
This is probably a long way off though , and probably expensive that your traditional flight.
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Soldato
Impressive although we're a long, long way from seeing it implemented on a commercial aircraft. There's more chance of it ending up on military applications if it works though.
Hopefully their research with the XB-1 around reducing sonic booms allows them to develop a passenger aircraft; it certainly would be nice to see a commercial, and ultimately viable, supersonic aircraft again.There's already a company trying to do Concorde II, the unfortunately named Boom Supersonic (https://boomsupersonic.com/).
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I think it's been at least five years since they started making announcements, and they're still working on testing a prototype smaller plane.
Boom Supersonic XB-1 hits new speed record in latest test flight
Boom's XB-1 supersonic jet took its fifth test flight out of Mojave Air & Space Port on Oct 7th, 2024 setting a few new records in the process. The XB-1 is the one-third-scale platform that Boom is using as the foundation for its eventual Overture aircraft that aims to bring back commercialized…newatlas.com
Lufthansa, BA, Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways, Qantas and Etihad are also returning their A380s to use as well. I'm fairly sure that several of those aren't state sponsored via oil money.
Man of Honour
Things are better faster
Wish my wife would agree....
That said I'd love for a flight to be shorter. Hate being on a plane only for the reason they're too small and uncomfortable.
I suffered no jet lag whatsoever flying to NY. You effectively arrive the same time as you left, give or take. So you just have a longer day, feel nice and tired, get a long sleep on the first night and you're fine.
Coming back west to east is a different issue. In the states they call it the Red Eye. My flight from NY was early evening NY time. I arrived in the UK 6.5 hrs later and was walking around London looking for a fry-up at 9am. Got home having been awake 20+ hours and it was midday. Very odd feeling.
Coming back west to east is a different issue. In the states they call it the Red Eye. My flight from NY was early evening NY time. I arrived in the UK 6.5 hrs later and was walking around London looking for a fry-up at 9am. Got home having been awake 20+ hours and it was midday. Very odd feeling.
Caporegime
I wake up at 4am most days for work but on my off day I will normally get up between 6 and 7. A 5 hour difference is not that bad and you will easily adapt.
When I went to Australia I was awake for around 40 hours in total and slept for 10 hours on my first night but was fine after that. Don't think I could manage that at this age though.
Yep it's been scientifically proven that going east (jumping ahead) 6-9 hours is the absolute worst on the body. I remember flying to Japan - left Amsterdam at around 2pm, landed at around 9am Japan time which by then was 1am body time but still had a full day ahead of me. Awful.
had to laugh at thisBut yeh i know what you mean, luckily the last flight i had a few weeks back i was by the emergency door, so extra leg room on the return flight back.
Not quite business class though