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Space Plane': fly anywhere in the world in four hours
The Telegraph ( UK) ^
| 14 July 2016 , 11:38am
| Helena Horton
Posted on 07/14/2016 12:27:35 PM PDT by Candor7
Could we soon be saying goodbye to long-haul flights? One company has taken an important step in making this dream come true.
Oxford's Reaction Engines Ltd (REL) announced it has received a €10,000 development contract with ESA, so it can work on its revolutionary Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE).
This technology can work both in the Earth's atmosphere and in space - which is crucial to space planes.
( scroll down for video explanation of technology)
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aviation; precooler; technology; uk
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Why the UK is leaving the EU? Exactly!
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:27:35 PM PDT
by
Candor7
To: Fred Nerks
Ping to quick trips to down under!
( The Chinese are scrambling to get in?)
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:28:39 PM PDT
by
Candor7
( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: Candor7
Error 404. Can’t seem to get there.
And it operates in space ? I hope they solved some fuel consumption issues.
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:32:55 PM PDT
by
Celerity
To: Celerity
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:34:03 PM PDT
by
Candor7
( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: Candor7
Hmmm...crony capitalism maybe?
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:37:40 PM PDT
by
gr8eman
(Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
To: Candor7
I don’t want to get anywhere in world in 4 hours, I just want my flying car.
That 4 hour plane sounds like a great disease vector.
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:38:35 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: Candor7
What will they do to protect the passengers from big changes in air pressure?
My worst moment on any plane ride is during the descent. My ears get stopped up and start throbbing painfully. This continues until the moment we have landed. It’s not as bad the older I get, but still, it’s not fun.
To: Candor7
On that train, all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well, by ‘76 we’ll be A-OK
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:39:18 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Candor7
From 1931, call me when I can buy tickets
To: Donglalinger
Yep, and I will save you a seat? ( They’ll be way sold out.)
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:42:12 PM PDT
by
Candor7
( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: Candor7
10,000 Euros?
That will hire one engineer for a month, to produce a brief literature survey and some gee whiz concept drawings.
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:43:12 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: dfwgator
What a beautiful world it will be.
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:45:05 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: fella
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:49:43 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: BenLurkin
What a glorious time to be free
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:50:32 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: BeauBo
That will hire one engineer for a month, to produce a brief literature survey and some gee whiz concept drawings.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well you must admit, it will buy a few tanks of fuel!
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:50:55 PM PDT
by
Candor7
( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: Donglalinger
LOL. Plus 10k in funding should do the trick :)
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:52:16 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: BeauBo
You beat me to it :)
Not a half billion, or a hundred million, or 50 20 million.
10 Gs :)
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posted on
07/14/2016 12:53:25 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Candor7
Hitching a ride on an SR 71?
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posted on
07/14/2016 1:12:24 PM PDT
by
Crucial
To: Crucial
Hitching a ride on an SR 71?>>>>>>>>>>>>
The video on the article link is interesting. The intake air is cooled to minus 140 degrees Centigrade.Apparently that’s the ticket , or so they say.
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posted on
07/14/2016 1:19:25 PM PDT
by
Candor7
( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: Candor7
How fast was the Concord and see where it is today.
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posted on
07/14/2016 1:46:49 PM PDT
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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