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Proposed Lapcat II Hypersonic Airliner: Brussels to Sydney in Less Than 3 Hours

Posted by timothy on from the sorry-no-meal-service dept.

New submitter AG_2011 writes: Could an airliner that flies anywhere in under 3 hours be in service by 2030? One estimate puts the cost one way at €5,000 (£3,700) per seat for a Brussels to Sydney trip. The Lapcat-II project's Mach 8 airliner will be capable of 8,500 km/h (5,280 mph) and could take passengers on this trip in 2 hours and 55 minutes. The race is on...

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  1. Re:What a bunch of SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everyone thinks airplane bathrooms are tiny.

    And no one wants the seats near the bathroom either.

    well yeah that's because of all the fatass lardass overweight morbidly obese disgusting fatbody fatzo diabetes-riddled future-heart-attack soft pudgy corpulent rotund jiggly out-of-shape nasty spherical heavy unattractive bloated gluttonous porcine overindulgent flabby bovine contemptible suicide-by-food motherfucking ravagers of the healthcare system Fucking Americans! Fat FaT FAT fucking Americans! Yes as it turns out if you eat like a FATASS and fail to exercise like a FATASS then OH MY FUCKING GOD you will be FAT like a FATASS, you fucking morons! You're not getting a disease you're committing SUICIDE BY FOOD you fucking LARDASSES!