'Cloud Rider': China tests supersonic plane flying Beijing to New York in under two hours

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[RomanSoldier19]

Chinese scientists successfully conducted the first publicly announced test flight of a prototype supersonic aircraft. In this test flight, a small-scale prototype reached a maximum speed of Mach 6.56, or approximately 8,100 km/h, which is more than six times the speed of sound and considered an important milestone in the development of supersonic aircraft, according to reports by VnExpress.

[RomanSoldier19]

[SaveFerris]

You should have an SR-71 flying

[SaveFerris]

[a small-scale prototype reached a maximum speed of Mach 6.56]

It flew at the exact time. Nothing entered that airspace all day except for a flock of birds.

Mach 5, even Mach 6 and able to sustain it. If the Soviets Chinese can mass-produce it, it would change the structure of our world.

[Ex gun maker.]

Just what the world needs! /S
Yah, an even faster way to spread the next China Virus.
I’m ready to ground air travel and bring back the age of sail.

[Texas Fossil]

(It was a 20 minute test) In this test flight, a small-scale prototype reached a maximum speed of Mach 6.56, or approximately 8,100 km/h, which is more than six times the speed of sound and considered an important milestone in the development of supersonic aircraft

[Candor7]

Woman who fry upside down ovah glave yahd have clack up !

[TwelveOfTwenty]

"Thank you, free traitors, for funding our research at the expense of yours, We hope you're enjoying your cheaper prices."

Signed, the Chinese Communists

[mbrfl]

So basically they took a rocket and put wings on it?

[Herakles]

China events teleportation and all such short of Make Believe stuff

[sit-rep]

lol

[AndyJackson]

That is hypersonic, not supersonic, if it exists and works.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“OK, Wang. Tilt the empenage outward instead of inward and add some winglets.”

[Sirius Lee]

I’m surprised the Chico’s didn’t name it the “Happy Luck Goer” or “Lucky Fortune Flyer”.

[dfwgator]

90 Minutes from New York to Paris. Well by ‘76 we’ll be A-OK!

[PIF]

Made by the lowest bidder able to pay the highest bribes, using the cheapest parts or reasonable facsimile thereof. Not guaranteed to remain in one piece, but you will get somewhere quickly

[PIF]

90 Minutes from New York to Paris.

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That’s 90 minutes from Beijing to San Fran or LAX.

[butlerweave]

The Chinese Communist Party Spy Route ?

[Hot Tabasco]

When looking at that cool photo, my first thought was that would be a plane that Batman would fly.

[GingisK]

Their economic system isn’t modeled after our own. If you cheat the Chinese government you will be shot in the back of the head.

[PIF]

If you cheat the Chinese government you will be shot in the back of the head.
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As I said the highest bribes - which go to Party officials who keep them from being shot, so they can be bribed even more. That form of “cheating” is “legal” and a way of life in China

Their economic system is modeled on deception & bribery, with the addition by Xi that everything the PLA has corporation also have, and every thing a corporation has the PLA also has - called Military-Civilian Fusion.