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Data from Reaction engines. General characteristics Capacity: 300 passengers (plus baggage) Length: 139 m (456 ft 0 in) Wingspan: 41 m (134 ft 6 in) Wing area: 900 m 2 (9,700 sq ft) Max takeoff weight: 400,000 kg (881,849 lb) Fuel capacity: 198 t (437,000 lb) liquid hydrogen Powerplant: 4 × Reaction Engines Scimitar Precooled jet engine Performance Cruise speed: Mach 5.0 (6,130 km/h ...
The LAPCAT A2 concept in the upper atmosphere. One possible supersonic transport aircraft being researched as part of this project is the A2 by Reaction Engines Limited . [ 7 ] The researchers are looking at an aircraft capable of flying from Brussels (Belgium) to Sydney (Australia) in 2–4 hours, [ 8 ] significantly reducing journey times ...
Falcon page on Darpa.mil; HCV page on Globalsecurity.org "Air Drops Dummy Rocket for Darpa's Falcon" Archived 2012-02-23 at the Wayback Machine, Aviation Week, "Hypersonics Back in the News" on Defensetech.org "Going Hypersonic: Flying FALCON for Defense" and "Air Force Plans Flight Tests Of Hypersonic Vehicle" on Space.com; Death of HTV explained
The second phase of the Hypersonic Weapon System development was to perform a set of flight tests with a series of boost-glide Hypersonic Technology Vehicles (HTVs). [12] HTV-1: a low performance hypersonic glider, originally planned to fly in September 2007, now canceled because it was found not possible to manufacture the leading edges. [13]
A Chinese aerospace firm has completed the first test flight of a passenger plane that it claims can fly at Mach 4 – more than twice the speed of Concorde.. Beijing-based Space Transportation ...
Project Mayhem, the Air Force's secret new hypersonic bomber, is underway. Development on the bomber, which travels at Mach 10, just took a big step forward.
"Hypersonic Passenger Flight", Aviation Week, archived from the original on 2012-05-09 with a diagram of the plane. "Astrium Efficiency Initiative To Trim Work Force" , Space news , 18 June 2011, archived from the original on January 4, 2013 .
SPOILER ALERT – This story contains Top Gun: Maverick plot points: In the opening moments of Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise’s Capt. Pete Mitchell takes an an experimental hypersonic plane ...