Airbus patents jet that flies from London to NY in 1 Hour!
Surely the tech behind this aircraft's speed will have a military application? Unless this is a Concorde ripoff?Business InsiderAirbus just patented a jet that could fly from London to New York in 1...
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Very hard to take even slightly seriously.
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They've been working on the hypersonic development for at least 2 decades, it may just be that the technology is finally reaching the point that it could indeed be introduced into commercial service....
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A patent covers the idea only. It says nothing about whether anything has or even can be built. Many patents have been issued for ideas that have only been actually built decades later - and some have...
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For Ryanair it would be PR vapourware. But I think that a service between Europe and China or the West Coast is plausible.
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Condottiere wrote:For Ryanair it would be PR vapourware. But I think that a service between Europe and China or the West Coast is plausible.Why would an aircraft like that make money when the Concorde...
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Steve Crandell wrote:Condottiere wrote:For Ryanair it would be PR vapourware. But I think that a service between Europe and China or the West Coast is plausible.Why would an aircraft like that make...
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It will give them an excuse to construct a new out of the way airport, rather than worrying about expansion and slots. Numerically, a lot of Chinese are, becoming and will be rich, and they'll want to...
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So you drive to a feeder airfield, fly to a remote airfield, go through TSA, fly for another hour, land at a remote airfield, go through customs, fly to the airfield of your destination, and then hire...
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WarshipAdmin wrote:So you drive to a feeder airfield, fly to a remote airfield, go through TSA, fly for another hour, land at a remote airfield, go through customs, fly to the airfield of your...
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It comes down to engineering, cost and environmental impact. It would probably also be combined with high speed rail link. For the Chinese and Japanese, this wouldn't be a problem, also the...
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An update:ReutersA New ‘Concorde’ Is Set To Fly From London To New York In Just ONE HourYahoo News – 10 hours agoAfter the Concorde jets retired - many thought supersonic travel between the UK and the...
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As was discussed before in this thread: this is an idea only - NOT anything actually eve remotely near even preliminary testing of a mock-up!
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The total cost of filing a technical patent is in the $20k range for an individual with legal fees, but it can be under $10k with in-house legal, technical and everything. That's only a few man-weeks...
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I like the idea that Boeing had a while back called the sonic cruiser. It would cruise at a very high sub-sonic velocity.
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Yeah. The speed increase would've been minor - but it came at same fuel consumption as other contemporary airliners, so they figured that, between a 14-hour flight and a 12.5-hour one, when that small...
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Like the Concorde, any hypersonic airliner would be limited to the very wealthy (for both speed and status reasons) and upper-level business/government officials (who NEED a very short travel time and...
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