Other than the Concorde, Boeing was always an airplane powerhouse and until recently they were the undisputed airplane king.
Now that the Concorde is gone, Europe has lost some bragging rights but in its place however may be a joint French/Japanese plane scheduled to be tested over
A rocket will carry the new plane to an altitude of 12.4 miles and will fly at Mach 2 (for those of you that missed Top Gun, that is twice the speed of sound).
The cost for this run is about 10 million dollars or what NASA refers to as “petty cash for errands this week.” Of course this plane could crash like the last one did or it could eventually fly at Mach 5.5 which is the theoretical speed of a new Japanese engine. BTW it would take all of four hours to get from
So if this test plane makes it, the question I have to ask is why we aren’t publicizing that we have something better, faster and stronger than everyone else being developed in the
I shudder to think that in five years we will see articles comparing
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This test flight succeeded today, Oct. 10, 2005.
It would be interesting to know if it is still possible for flight attendants to serve food at that speed (whether Mach 2 or 5.5), given that the cabin is supposed to be pressurized, and it will maintain its high speed for quite some time. Alas, the era of the 2-hour inflight movie will be coming to an end and all we will get to see are comedy loops.
On the bright side we will finally have enough pretzels to last the entire flight :-)
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