Posted on 08/04/2015 10:08:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
New jet could cut flight time from London to New York to just one hour
The new jet could fly from London to New York in an hour - opening up the possibility of a transatlantic return journey in a day.
Concorde 2 would be capable of flying more than four times the speed of sound – or more than 2,500mph, according to documents lodged with the US Patent Office by the aerospace and defence group
The filings refer to an “ultra-rapid air vehicle” and “method of aerial locomotion” for the aircraft, which would cruise at an altitude of more than 100,000ft and carry up to 20 passengers or two or three tons of cargo for distances of about 5,500 miles.
According to the patent, power would come from three different types of engines:
• “at least one” conventional jet that could be retracted into the fuselage
• one or more ramjets, which use the forward speed of the aircraft to compress the air entering them before it is mixed with fuel and ignited
• a rocket motor powered by hydrogen and oxygen.
Flights in the new aircraft look set to be a wild ride, with the rocket motor used in combination with conventional jets to power a “near vertical ascendant flight” until its breaks the sound barrier when the engines are retracted in the fuselage and the ramjets take over.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
LM’s HTV is experiencing technical difficulties and a few have basically came apart and/or lost total control.
This technology has a way to go. . .so I wonder, how does one patent an idea that is not technically feasible? Perhaps I can patent "warp drive" or "phasers". . .they are ideas and some research in those areas has taken place, so, my patent application would be on par with these guys. . .right?
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Way ahead of you. . .Post 2.
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Fly to UK in an hour sounds great except it takes an hour on the ground to fly out of JFK, then another 2 hours in a holding pattern to land, plus 30 minutes to taxi to a gate. An hour in flight is barely enough time for a nap.
...or C-Stoff and T-Stoff.
The video is unintenionally funny.
Viewing it the second time, I agree, it’s funny and Disney-ish....................
Traveling in a hammock that pivots with the orientation of the aircraft would be a little unnerving to me.................
Close....................
The toughest obstacle isn’t the technology.
It’s turning a reasonable profit.
20 passengers?
What’s the ticket going to cost, $50,000.00 one way?
The cocpit temperature of the Blackbird was over 400 degrees. The space suited pilot could bake a cake in his lap. That was Mach 3.4 and the titanium was at it’s thermal limits. Good luck.
I thought he was trying a little too hard to make it entertaining. I was half expecting him to break out into a rap song.
Not only that, but Concorde was banned from many routes because of the sonic boom. The problem is still there. I agree, it doesn’t make any sense..
undeterred, apparently, by the fact that they’ll never break even with the a380, now they’ll step on this land mine.
Gonna need a bigger air conditioner.......................
Well, it will have to be faster than the Russian SAMs if they fly over Ukraine.................
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