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 ...
According to the video, the sonic boom will only happen in the vertical period of the flight where it will go out horizontally to the ground and not effect others...............
The cost of a first-class ticket on Titanic to New York was $2,500, approximately $57,200 today. .........................
LOL
Yes, but do you get the beautiful view of ice bergs? Well?
/s
What could possibly go wrong......
Considering Airbus’ record of mechanical reliability, think i will pass on flying one of these if I live that long.
That’s the plan..anyway...I wouldn’t bet a few billion on it though, nor the envirowackos trying to shut it down...You know, somebody in the landing path at O’Hare will say it scares their cats, or their petunias won’t grow...
I wonder, did the people who survived the Titanic get refunds?........................
Well, if it’s in O’Hare, I couldn’t care less.......................
Hey, it would be the ride of your life!........and possibly the last......................
It appears they didn’t. I found references to this on answers.com and few other places.
From what I read, the cruise line tried to get get the families of the men who played music on deck to pay for their uniforms.
Ouch.
Evidently some reimbursement for lost items was made.
I wouldn’t put a lot of faith in these answers, but this is the scuttle-butt I found.
LOL, yes, that’s what I found as well.
How many miles per gallon does it get? I bet Al Gore will use it every week.
scuttle-butt .........good Navy/Marine Corps idiom..............OOOH-RAH! SEMPER FI...............;^)
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it............................B^)
Semper Fi, but I don’t claim to have been something I wasn’t. I did not serve in the armed forces, and I make that very clear if the subject comes up. I respect the men who did too much to play it any other way.
Then how are you familiar with the term scuttle-butt?......................
It’s a term I picked up on over time. I may have heard it from someone who did serve. Sometimes it fits rather well.
Take care...
Thanks. Interesting...
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