China's New Hypersonic Passenger Plane Can Fly From London to New York in Under 2 Hours
China's New Hypersonic Passenger Plane Can Fly From London to New York in Under 2 Hours
A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.
This article is based on a report from the Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/china-hypersonic-flights-speed-concorde-b2051192.html nowhere does it say they have completed a test flight.
The brand Space Transportation, also known as the company Beijing Lingkong Tianxing Technology, has released an animated video which shows how its proposed “space flights” might look
That's actually hilarious that this outlet thought a animated video was real.
This "outlet" is barely a news outlet and keeps getting posted on Lemmy recently...
Edit: over the past 12 days OP has posted 7 articles posted by the same user. I think I see what's going on here...
The article does link to that URL behind the line "the first test flight", but that seems erroneous. This story actually seems to be based on this Chinese press release: https://www.spacetransportation.com.cn/news/info/22.html
But it also seems like there's some confusion between an "aircraft test" and a "test flight". I'm not convinced this thing has ever flown.
Call me when they actually show it flying.
All I want to know is how safe it is, and how loud the sonic boom would be when flew over, not how expensive the ticket would be, nor "Will regular passengers be able to handle the physical effects of such high-speed travel."
It's not the speed, it's the acceleration that kills you. Or deceleration, if you're unlucky.
I am sure it is just as safe as it sounds lol
The problems start when it breaks through the safe barrier.
I've heard of Boom Aerospace from the US, which is a little further along in their development process, although they are only super sonic.
Won't happen. The primary reason the Concord failed was that they couldn't make enough money. Running engines to push a plane that fast are super expensive.
Let's not forget that the Concord failed in 2003. I wonder what started happening around then that made that actual flying part a smaller fraction of the overall time spent traveling.....
Even if you can step through a portal and instantaneously get to London from NY, if you still have to go through the rest of the airline process the time savings just isn't that huge.
And most are willing to pay less even if it's a 6 hour flight.