New York to London in 11 Minutes with new Concept Aircraft

[Jim Young 2,356]

New York to London in 11 Minutes and New York to Tokyo in 22 Minutes?  Could be in our future someday soon!

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3416330/Fly-New-York-London-11-MINUTES-Radical-Antipode-concept-plane-uses-rocket-boosters-revealed.html

 

Best regards,
 

[hychewright 46]

Hi Jim, that sure looks possible !  It would have to be real soon for me to see it, much less afford a ticket!

[bendead 1,085]

 

 

Could be in our future someday soon!

 

Or maybe not

 

Mach 24 at 40,000 feet...

[denon75 11]

So far, should be achievable in flight simulator :-)

[bendead 1,085]

LOL, that's a good one

 

But you might get a blue screen due to too much "overspeed" voice message.

[n4gix 4,947]

A super-supersonic aircraft that carries only 10 pax? Tickets for a flight would probably be in the six digits at least!

[brucets 94]

The Concorde carried 100+ passengers and the fare ow IAD to LHR was almost $1200 in 1980!

 

Bruce

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Nice Jim - thanks for sharing  :wink:

[Ray Proudfoot 8,930]

Or maybe not

 

Mach 24 at 40,000 feet...

 

The airframe would overheat at such a low altitude.  Even at FL580 the temperature on the nose of Concorde could get close to 127°C which would require it to slow down or go down.

 

Concorde also stretched up to 8 inches at Mach 2. Imagine what would happen at Mach 24. Impossible.

[ADamiani 470]

Uhm ... looks like a Klingon bird-of-prey from Star Trek tbh ... :-)))))

 

ANdrea

[avgaskoolaid 292]

This Charles Bombardier guy is a joke. He has a Bachelors degree from a mediocre engineering school and most likely only got hired by Bombardier because his grandfather started the company. He managed a few projects that modified an existing ATV, and now he apparently specializes in painting pretty pictures and giving them to websites who come up with poorly researched/written clickbait articles to accompany them, posting them on their website to generate more clicks and ad revenue. Sorry, I know this is kind of a fun thread, but this trend of annoying "news" articles designed solely to generate clicks really annoys me. 

[Flying Penguin 44]

Well it's marginally less suicidal than his previous Skreemr concept that relied on a rail gun to get it to Mach 10, a bit of back of envelope calculation (on the assumption of constant acceleration a mile long rail gun) puts the acceleration at above 350G laterally, which would be enough to kill everyone on board instantly....

[bic 44]

Wouldn't your body being going nuts (ie blackout?) when it is slowing down?  

[tutmeister 695]

The rail gun was only for launching. It then used rockets to accelerate and climb. I'm not saying it would happen but all his theories are actually sound if slightly unrealistic from a manufacturing point of view.

Look at what virgin galactic are experimenting with. Their new tech rocketry and aerodynamics could lead to them using a derivative of spaceship two for fast sub orbital transport. I'm fairly sure that's where the tech is heading.

 

Chris