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The Future of Flight

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-any-time-soon dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "With "High Times," the Economist delivers a very long and extremely well-documented article about the future of aviation during the next fifty years. It tells us about pilotless planes, with 32 countries currently developing more than 250 models of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), primarily for combat purposes. The article also looks at future civilian pilotless planes and at the future of personal aviation. But what captivated my attention in this article was the last part about future commercial supersonic and hypersonic (at least five times the speed of sound) planes. In particular, the Economist describes the HyperSoar. "The HyperSoar is a concept for a craft flying at ten times the speed of sound and able to reach any point on the globe within two hours." This overview contains more details and references about the HyperSoar which would fly from Los Angeles to New York in 35 minutes."

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  1. FP for Saddam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  2. Help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I realize I will most likely get mod'd down for this but I need help and don't know where else to turn. We need a PHP for a day or two this coming Tuesday & possibly Wednesday. For more information, please read my journal. http://slashdot.org/~johndoesovich/journal

  3. Re:high times? by OtakuHawk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "hmm, I thought High Times was a publication of a different sort..." ... A magazine for drug users?

  4. Saddam Hussein Captured by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Saddam Hussein has been captured. Can slashdot post an article about this? It seems important.

    1. Re:Saddam Hussein Captured by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Uh, they did, retard.

  5. Sadaam was caught. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/3708151/

  6. Saddam's future by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The man knows too much about the deals Bush Sr. and Reagan did with him.

    He'll most likely face Jack Ruby's fate.

  7. I HOPE THE BLOODSHED CONTINUES IN IRAQ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The only way to get rid of this slime bag WASP-Mafia, oil barron ridden cartel of a government, this assault on Americans and anything one could laughingly call "a democracy", relies heavily on what a shit hole Iraq turns into. They need to die so that we can be free. Soldiers usually did that directly--i.e., fight those invading and harming a country. This time they need to die in defense of a lie from a lying adminstration to show these ignorant, dumb Americans that Bush is incompetent. They need to die so that Americans get rid of this deadly scum. It is obscene, Barbie Bush, how other sons (of much nobler blood) have to die to save us from your Rosemary's Baby spawn and his ungodly cohorts.