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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.