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Yes, if everything else is equal it should burn more fuel, although I'm not sure how much more. The problem with flying faster than the speed of sound is that there is a huge increase in drag (and therefore the thrust required to overcome it) right around Mach 1. Above Mach 1 the drag doesn't increase as rapidly, but it does continue to go up.
Until very recently every plane that flew above Mach 1 had to do it while on afterburners, but I believe the new F-22 Raptor can fly at "super cruise" which is some method of breaking the sound barrier without afterburners, which saves a huge amount of fuel. Last I checked the technology behind that was still secret.
I question whether this proposed airplane will actually fly in the hypersonic region, since to an engineer that means Mach 5 or above. If it can actually make the Tokyo-Paris flight in 2 hours, you could spend a day in Tokyo, fly to Paris, get a night's sleep and live the day all over again in the land of love!
I don't know about Mozilla, but in Opera at least (my preferred browser) the gestures can also mean clicks.
For instance, to go back a page, you can hold the right button down while clicking the left. That may sound like a hassle but it actually becomes pretty much a strumming of the fingers, middle to index.
There are other click combinations, and this alleviates the problem of moving the mouse at weird angles as some have pointed out.
In case anyone was wondering, the world speed record was just recently set by the Buckeye Bullet, an dragster type electric car built by engineering students at the Ohio State University. It set the speed record at 242.3 mph, although it actually went faster than that (the record is the top speed averaged over several runs).
The google news article is here and a picture of the vehicle is here.
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Until very recently every plane that flew above Mach 1 had to do it while on afterburners, but I believe the new F-22 Raptor can fly at "super cruise" which is some method of breaking the sound barrier without afterburners, which saves a huge amount of fuel. Last I checked the technology behind that was still secret.
I question whether this proposed airplane will actually fly in the hypersonic region, since to an engineer that means Mach 5 or above. If it can actually make the Tokyo-Paris flight in 2 hours, you could spend a day in Tokyo, fly to Paris, get a night's sleep and live the day all over again in the land of love!
I don't know about Mozilla, but in Opera at least (my preferred browser) the gestures can also mean clicks. For instance, to go back a page, you can hold the right button down while clicking the left. That may sound like a hassle but it actually becomes pretty much a strumming of the fingers, middle to index. There are other click combinations, and this alleviates the problem of moving the mouse at weird angles as some have pointed out.
The google news article is here and a picture of the vehicle is here.
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