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It appears the British scientists have been very busy and have come up with a gem.

"It is hoped the British-designed Hyshot III will pave the way for ultra fast, intercontinental air travel with a projected time of two hours from London to Sydney."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4832254.stm


Maybe not for a while but but with those times you could pop over for a real Barbie in a weekend!! :)
 
Yeah was just reading this. But seeing as the Scram jet needs to get to five times the speed of sounds before it works, isn't that going to be a hell of a lot of work for commerical airliners in the future.
 
That's why I love the Lockheed SR71 blackbird so much. You can almost still consider it as something well before it's time as it made it from London to Newyork in 1:45hrs. And this was a plane that was made in 1962!
 
greenlizard0 said:
That's why I love the Lockheed SR71 blackbird so much. You can almost still consider it as something well before it's time as it made it from London to Newyork in 1:45hrs. And this was a plane that was made in 1962!
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Exactly!!! absolutely ming blowing to think that it was designed way back in the 60's - I pretty much believe in Aurora, but not sure on the pulse detonation engines though.
 
you've got to wonder if this is the sort of stuff that they are letting the press get ahold off what tech are they keeping behind closed doors ?

IMO they are far more advanced then what there letting on
 
This is a very simple concept, the down side of it is that it needs to be started at around mach 6 to get the correct air pressure, hence the rocket, ram or scram jets have been around for a while and they are basically a modified gas turbine engine, this still leaves a few problems to be solved in comercial scene,

- how do we get to mach 6?

- how do we do that cost effectively

- how can we design something to cope with the thermodynamic heating.

These are just some of the problems with this engine and altho it is a great breakthrough that they are launching one, when it is only going to be active for 6 seconds before ploughing into the ground, I would hold your breathe for fast transatlantic flights :).

KaHn
 
greenlizard0 said:
That's why I love the Lockheed SR71 blackbird so much. You can almost still consider it as something well before it's time as it made it from London to Newyork in 1:45hrs. And this was a plane that was made in 1962!
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Yea its like Concorde, it rode at the very edge of space, and very fast speeds. Both are awesome machines!
 
Isotope said:
Yea its like Concorde, it rode at the very edge of space, and very fast speeds. Both are awesome machines!
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kind of - concorde used to cruise around the 60,000ft (FL600?) and the SR71 at around 90,000ft and probably higher :)
 
It will still hit the same problems concorde did, the americans (if we invent it) and noise. They were two of the main reasons concorde wasnt such a big success.
 
Tbh, i don't think this will reach the air travel market, it would be quite difficult to put into mass production and would be very expensive anyways.
 
VaderDSL said:
Exactly!!! absolutely ming blowing to think that it was designed way back in the 60's - I pretty much believe in Aurora, but not sure on the pulse detonation engines though.
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Same here. Amazing things to see in the flesh aswell! I really do also think the Aurora is real.

Does anyone know why/how pulse detonation engines are better?
 
and then they would have to built an aircraft chassis capable of withstanding the immense pressures, temperatures , vibrations etc and still be as comfortabe as present day airliners, and that i believe is more difficult than the development of such engines
 
Rich1988 said:
yes but the difference is concorde carried passengers ;)
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true :p hehe - both planes remarkable piece of engineering though :)

got this pic at uni

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pretty sure the olympus was the powerghouse for concorde
 
Dingo said:
It appears the British scientists have been very busy and have come up with a gem.

"It is hoped the British-designed Hyshot III will pave the way for ultra fast, intercontinental air travel with a projected time of two hours from London to Sydney."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4832254.stm


Maybe not for a while but but with those times you could pop over for a real Barbie in a weekend!! :)
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Very nice :D
 
Hydrogen fuel guys, this maybe the breakthrough space travel has needed......now when they get the nagnetic pulse engines we will be there for sure!!
 
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