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China's hypersonic aircraft would fly from Beijing to New York in two hours (popsci.com)
12 points by isalmon on March 5, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Reminder that anytime hypersonic aircraft are proposed, it’s absolute nonsense (based on where current research, particularly in materials science, is at) and just a bunch of a CAD animations.

Ronald Reagan already topped this anyway by proposing in his 1986 State of the Union a modern-day “Orient Express” that would go New York to Tokyo in 1.5 hours. That never happened either.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_X-30


One of the worst websites I ever visited. The amount of traffic, cookies, ads and scripts needed to be loaded just to present few images and text is deplorable.




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