Fly from New York to London in 11 MINUTES: Radical ‘Antipode’ concept plane [...] revealed

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | 25 Jan 2016 | ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD

[grey_whiskers]

A couple o' questions.

1) Green footprint? Fuel consumption is gonna be nasty.

2) What will the body design be? In particular so the body doesn't melt or catch fire at Mach 24.

3) Have they heard about this at Area 51?

4) I guess this plane will never have enough fuel to go into a holding pattern no matter how backed up the airport is.

5) What are the g-forces on the passengers during acceleration?

6) I guess there won't be time for a beverage cart: but *all* the seats (and the fuselage, and the wings...) will most definitely be "smoking".

[WKUHilltopper]

Get a horse!

[Finalapproach29er]

The UK is finished. We don’t need to be giving their immigrants easy access to the USA.imo

[BenLurkin]

Like the Sanger Silbervogel?

[AndyJackson]

Has anyone thought about the dietary incentive this offers. It costs $10,000 per pound to put an object into orbit, and the cost of a suborbital trajectory won't be a lot less. Lay off the egg-nog and fruit-cake over Christmas or shell out $100,000 in weight penalties.

Luggage? For the $400,000 for a 40lb bag you could buy a whole new wardrobe landing.

[sparklite2]

[eartrumpet]

4) no problem at backed up airports. They can grease it onto the runway at Mach 3 in between the regular jets.

[Paladin2]

The X-Files solved that issue yesterday.

[grey_whiskers]

The X-Files solved that issue yesterday.

For some reason, that reminds me of "The Mile High Club"...and then the joke about Clark Kent telling Lois Lane he is Superman, in order to score with her.

"Oh, Clark, you really *are* faster than a speeding bullet...!"

[Bobalu]

[Paladin2]

Lotsa peeps live in Denver....

[grey_whiskers]

Congrats on going to the Super Bowl.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yeah.

I’m thinking those G-forces are gonna realllly be comfortable for the average person who can afford a 400,000.00 rise.

Starting. And stopping.

Let’s let the delivery system of ICBM’s be ... restricted perhaps.

[ClearCase_guy]

Thunderbirds are Go!

[bunkerhill7]

Fly from New York to London in 11 MINUTES, but your Luggage will Arrive 11 hours later, maybe.

[dfwgator]

[Nailbiter]

Canadian Geese- what happens when.......

[grey_whiskers]

Canadian Geese- what happens when.......

Mutually Assured Destruction...

[Moonman62]

These would be good designs for a video game. Other than that it is ridiculous.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Won't matter. You'll still be waiting on the tarmac for an hour prior to take-off, and then taxiing 30 minutes after landing..