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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 British company Reaction Engines Limited, with 50% EU money, has been engaged in a research programme called LAPCAT, which examined a design for a hydrogen-fueled plane carrying 300 passengers called the A2, potentially capable of flying at Mach 5+ nonstop from Brussels to Sydney in 4.6 hours. [74]
The test aircraft then accelerated to Mach 5.1 (3,400 mph; 5,400 km/h) and flew for 210 seconds until running out of fuel and plunging into the Pacific Ocean off Point Mugu for over six minutes of total flight time; this test was the longest air-breathing hypersonic flight. Researchers collected telemetry data for 370 seconds of flight.
The Mach number is defined as a plane’s speed divided by the speed that sound waves move through the air. To “break the sound barrier” means to fly faster than the speed of sound, with Mach ...
In August 2020, Hermeus received a $1.5 million contract from the United States Air Force to develop their proposed aircraft and function as a possible Air Force One. [6] They are building the supersonic Quarterhorse Mk 2 with an advanced engine based on the Pratt & Whitney F100. Quarterhorse Mk 2 is expected to hit speeds greater than Mach 2.5.
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 ...
A supersonic aircraft is an aircraft which can exceed the speed of sound (Mach 1.0) in level flight. Type Country Class Role Date Status No. Notes Aeritalia F-104S ...
Although not ideal for passenger aircraft, this shaping is quite adaptable for bomber use. In the 1960s and 1970s, many design studies for supersonic airliners were done and eventually two types entered service, the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 (1968) and Anglo-French Concorde (1969). However political, environmental and economic obstacles and one ...