UM-Bot Posted May 21, 2016 #1 Share Posted May 21, 2016 US and Australian military scientists are working together on an ambitious high-speed aircraft concept. The project, which is being developed as part of a collaboration between NASA, Australia’s Department of Defence and America’s Air Force Research Laboratory, aims to build an aircraft capable of travelling at many times the speed of sound. Read More: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/294752/hypersonic-rocket-could-revolutionize-travel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skookum Posted May 21, 2016 #2 Share Posted May 21, 2016 This is all very impressive but does require the use of rocket engines. I really can't see a day when commercial aircraft are rocket propelled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highdesert50 Posted May 21, 2016 #3 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Appears they may have resurrected the old Nike program of the 1960s. As I recall the Nike was capable of in excess of Mach 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
universal skeptic Posted May 21, 2016 #4 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Yes. Old news (from the 1960s.) Old technology. Not impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infernal Gnu Posted May 21, 2016 #5 Share Posted May 21, 2016 (edited) (yawn) Wernher von Braun would be rolling his eyes in his grave. Edited May 21, 2016 by Infernal Gnu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithisco Posted May 21, 2016 #6 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Just look at the Sabre engine from Reaction Engines...http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/ They are 10 -20 years in advance of this feeble effort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skookum Posted May 22, 2016 #7 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Just look at the Sabre engine from Reaction Engines...http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/ They are 10 -20 years in advance of this feeble effort Exactly, all this talk of rocket planes currently being trialled in commercial space tourism etc really isn't going to revolutionize commercial travel. It is far to expensive and to be honest dangerous to be used on commercial aircraft. Were something like the reaction engine could power an aircraft more safely at very high altitudes which could see very fast travel between continents. I suspect it is a good few decades away at least before we see it in use even in a small scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ117044 Posted May 23, 2016 #8 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Yeah OK. Only the .00005% of the rich *******s will go on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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