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Supersonic Jet Could Fly NYC To London In 3 Hours

Posted by samzenpus on from the but-I-want-to-be-there-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A new supersonic luxury plane that could fly people from New York to London in just three hours is being developed by a team of engineers. Spike Aerospace's S-512 Supersonic Jet was introduced in 2013, but the company recently announced a few updates to the plane's design. Discovery reports: "Spike Aerospace's engineers claim the S-512 could reach a maximum speed of Mach 1.8 (1,370 mph, or 2,205 km/h), which is 1.8 times the speed of sound. For comparison, the fastest Boeing 747 commercial "jumbo jet" can reach a maximum speed of Mach 0.92 (700 mph, or 1,126 km/h). If the S-512 really is built to reach these supersonic speeds, it would be as fast as an F-18 Hornet, a military fighter jet with a max speed of Mach 1.8. This would also make the supersonic jet about 450 mph (724 km/h) faster than the fastest civilian jet, according to Spike Aerospace."

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  1. Concorde 2.0 by gigne · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A new Concorde for the modern age... destined to meet the same ultimate demise for the same reasons. Too expensive, too noisy.

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    1. Re:Concorde 2.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Only slower, Concorde was Mach 2.04.

    2. Re:Concorde 2.0 by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Interesting

      As someone who lived in Reading, 30 miles from London and right under Concorde's flight path, I can honestly tell you the noise issue was NOT a red herring.

      That plane, tens of miles away from LHR, drowned out the TV when it flew over daily. It sucked. I think those States that banned it did so entirely reasonably.

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    3. Re:Concorde 2.0 by kimvette · · Score: 5, Interesting

      That is actually partially true; America hadn't yet built a supersonic passenger jet and outlawed overland supersonic flights over populated areas citing sonic booms (at FL600 sonic boom really isn't much of a problem) to protect the American airline system; having foreign airlines' supersonic airliners take business from American airline companies was unacceptable. It was an anti-competitive move. Had we not done that and in response instead developed supersonic airliners, the problem of sonic booms would have been eliminated a couple decades earlier - it wasn't until recently airfoils with wave cancelling properties (essentially creating two opposite-phased sonic booms) have been developed, so there won't be any need to outlaw low-altitiude sonic booms, let alone ones generated below 60,000'.

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  2. Redundant redundancy by Racemaniac · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is literally the article with the most redundancy I've ever read. nearly every facts is repeated twice or thrice in various ways.
    I also love the explanation of Mach, this is much needed on sites like this :).

    Also, the amount of redundancy in this article is ridiculous!

  3. No mention of Concorde by Excelcia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I love how there is no mention of the Concorde, which did it faster and carried more passengers on 1970's technology.

    It's like building a new space shuttle that is smaller than the shuttle was, and then comparing it to the Gemini capsules in the marketing. What, do they think the world has become globally amnesiac in the last ten years?

  4. Congratulations! by Comboman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The longest part of a trans-Atlantic flight is now going through security and queuing up for the runway.

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