Brendan Hughes

Did no-one see this? Thought you'd all be drooling over it...

Son of Concorde, and then some!

The hypersonic plane designed to reach Australia in under five hours | Business | The Guardian

boxst

If it ever gets built. I remember seeing something similar over 10 years ago and there wasn't the funding to take it to production.

It would be great to go so far so quickly.

Steve

PeteBrant

Nice idea, but it'll never take off.



B'doom Tish

Luminous

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*rose tinted specs on*
It does not look as nice as Concorde

It would be nice if they build it, but there have been a lot of designs that have never flown off their drawing boards.

davegtt

hmm, wonder how much a flight on that to Oz would be then. Not gonna happen I bet.

Brendan Hughes

You didn't read all of it? They hope the same as a current business class ticket.

davegtt

No, article seemed too long to keep my attention, only got through the first 2 paragraphs Not too bad a price then I suppose

PeteBrant

In 25 years time? That really will be a bargain!

FlightMan

Of course with a length of 132m, ( almost twice as long as the A380 ) no airport will be able to accommodate this, so bear with the airport authorities whilst they spend 20 - 30 years getting planning permission, and actually building airports capable to handling a plane of this length.
Great flying to Sydney in 4 hours. Not so good if you can't land anywhere!

jods

Donut - didn't you read the article?

It can land on standard length international runways.

Unless they have an Irish/Welsh/Pakistani/Muslim/Scottish Pilot in which case it will be a case of [transplant colloquial terminology to fit]

Paddy the pilot says to Seamus the co-pilot
"Be-Jeesus, dat sure is one short runway - dat is right dere, to be sure"
Seamus "Ahh begorra - but look at how feckin' WIDE it is"

^Qwerty^

Yeah, but other than the crash the other week at LHR, when did you last see passengers disembark on the runway?

Shark Man

LMAO off the artist's impression...it looks like something dragged from a 1950's sci-fi film set crossed with Thunderbird 1


Anyhoo, in all seriousness, we need somthing a bit more pioneering that the constantly rehashed slow cigar-sticks that we currently have to put up with flying in.

davegtt

Quite often actually, saying that though, not disembarking from an airbus

Moley

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The runways aren't the problem, it is the taxi-ways and apron that'll cause issues

FlightMan

Yes I did read the article, and landing is one thing, PARKING the damn thing at a GATE, so that it doesn't BLOCK the taxiway, thereby CAUSING airfield DISRUPTION, so rendering the airport UNUSABLE is something else.

Doughnut.

TKS Moley!

scunnered

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They fail to mention this isn't a new design.
The original concept was designed by sir Sidney Camm back in the sixties. But he died before he could complete the design.
Then in 1982, Alan Bond and Robert Parkinson came up with the "HOTOL" design. It looks virtually identical to the one mentioned above.

mykp

First off, the world is run by accountants and nobody is going to fund something like this.

Secondly, as moley said most of the airports dont have the infrastructure to cope with something like this, most dont even have the facilities to cope with the A380!

I hope I am wrong but I wouldnt expect to see this in my life time.

andy97

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By now, you would of thought the boffins would have designed, prototyped, and trialed a hypersonic plane with vertical take off and landing capability.

FlightMan

Google HOTOL, this story is 25 years old at least.

Leslie

Didn't someone say on this forum the other day that water vapour is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2?

It is an interesting project though.

Les

Brendan Hughes

Half the time at Lisbon I embark or disembark by bus.

I imagine this thing would only go to a few airports, as the massive time saved could then be used to put passengers on a domestic flight or short-haul nearby. So it's not like every airport would need an upgrade. For example, could even choose to land at London OR Paris (though I can imagine the political wars resulting from that!)

I'm sure the A380 was the wrong move. People these days want faster, not bigger.

ScoobyDoo555

You mean like this?



Dan

FlightMan

Oooo, its the Fireflash!

Heathrow has its new emergency vehicles ready to go:

vindaloo

If you can share the development three ways, it could be possible to develop it.

i) The world needs a reusable spacecraft or spaceplane. A son of space shuttle.
ii) Inevitably, anything which eases into space or goes much higher and faster will interest the military.
iii) Freight and passenger travel.

J.

Prasius

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Interest the Military perhaps - but not the civilians who run it; they'd accept the idea was a good one, then, regardless of the fact that a perfectly capable and proven system exists, insist on developing one independently as a "cost saving measure", which will run horrifically over-schedule, cost four times more than buying the proven example off the shelf would - and in actual fact, end up with a system with less capability than a 1930's Hawker Heart.

Brendan Hughes

Someone show the idea to Branson. He wanted to take over concorde, and is interested in Space Ship One / Two, no?