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Reaction Engines plan Mach 5 Airliner

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-very-likely dept.

What is? writes "A British company has designed an eco-friendly airliner that could make a trip from London to Sydney in under five hours. Reaction Engines has received funding from the European Space Agency to design the plane as part of the Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project. The A2 airliner would be capable of carrying 300 passengers at speeds of up to Mach 5."

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  1. Easy choice by QuickFox · · Score: 5, Funny
    FTA:

    Two major directions at conceptual and technological level are considered: ram-compression and active compression Use ram-compression, we already have well-known solutions like Huffman and Lempel-Ziv.
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  2. Mach 5 by QuickFox · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny how they write about a Mach 5 airliner precisely when Slashdot crawls down to something like Mach 5e-55.

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  3. Let me guess.. by DuSTman31 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..they're buying the old Concorde airframes and launching them from the US Navy's new railgun?

  4. Still it would make by crovira · · Score: 3, Funny

    for a nice crater.

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  5. 300 passengers? by geminidomino · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does that include the monkey and toddler hiding in the trunk?

  6. Barf Bags by zubikov · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good, now we'll finally use those little barf-bags on the back of airline passenger seats.

  7. Re:Oh, won't somebody please think of the math by somersault · · Score: 2, Funny

    The solution is obvious - build soundproof tunnels in the sky that the planes can fly through. Or soundproof bubble-domes over habitation and picnic areas.

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  8. The Mach 5 Plane? by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 2, Funny

    I found a photo of the plane's controls.

    Looks like it has ample cargo space.

  9. Toddler and Monkey by sconeu · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about the hot chick riding shotgun?

    [OK, I was a young kid at the time I watched it...]

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  10. Mach 5 Cruiseliner! by Danathar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Conceptual Mach 5 airliners are SO yesterday.

    What I want to see is a Mach 5 CRUISELINER! That would be worth building!

  11. Re:Silly Mods... by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Criminy mods are crazy here. I made a joke about zygotes dividing because God inserted an extra soul and got modded informative.

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