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426Shadow wrote:I don't understand you excitement personally. Unless you are rich, it's not going to be for you.
avgeekjohn wrote:I read that Boeing expects that it will be many years before its hypersonic plane is ready for commercial service, so I wouldn't (at least personally) expect anything of the sort any time soon. I do know, however, that private supersonic jets are hitting the market fairly soon...
pilotkev1 wrote:SpaceX already has future transportation on lockdown with the BFR.
Not long now and we'll have 1x daily DXB-IAH, JFK-SYD, SFO-JNB shuttles less than 1 hr in duration carrying a payload roughly 1.5x that of an A380.
Bobloblaw wrote:I remember the National Aerospace Plane back in 1986, ready to fly by 1995.
Planeflyer wrote:How would they manage the sonic boom issue? How intense would it be at 90k feet?
I think there is a increased likelihood of seeing such a craft given the competitive dynamics that exist today married w the groundbreaking work being done in material science.
atypical wrote:It is my understanding that current hypersonic flight is limited to rocket technology and scramjets are still in the development phase. Although there have been some success in scramjet testing those successes are limited to boosting a small engine to operational speeds via rocket engines. Has anyone succeeded in testing a craft (even a small version) that has the ability to itself take off, attain hypersonic speeds, and land? Before any human usable aircraft can be built some proof of concept is required.
danj555 wrote:Another cool pick up was they have a way to keep the cabin pressurized in an explosive decompression event. Any ideas on what that means?
IFlyVeryLittle wrote:No, no and no. No hypersonic passenger planes, no blended wing airliners, no rocket planes straight out of The Man in the High Castle. Like it or not, we're stuck with tubes with two ever-more-efficient fanjets for as far as anyone can see. Development costs are just going to be too high to spread across a mass-market rollout. Sorry.
IFlyVeryLittle wrote:No, no and no. No hypersonic passenger planes, no blended wing airliners, no rocket planes straight out of The Man in the High Castle. Like it or not, we're stuck with tubes with two ever-more-efficient fanjets for as far as anyone can see. Development costs are just going to be too high to spread across a mass-market rollout. Sorry.