Fellow Aspirant
31st July 2014, 22:40
This technology will make the world a little smaller for 'air' travellers. Mach 5? Yup.
From the article in The Telegraph:
"The Skylon can take off from a standard runway before accelerating to speeds of 19,000 miles per hour taking people to Earth’s stratosphere in just 15 minutes.
Alan Bond, chief designer of the Skylon said the breakthrough on creating a device that can cool the air entering an engine allowing it to operate normally at speeds of Mach 5 will transform high-speed aviation.
"It enables an aeroplane, very much a fast aeroplane, but an aeroplane nonetheless, to take off, accelerate at up to five times the speed of sound, turn itself subtly into a rocket, fly into orbit, do a job and come back again."
Link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/10182080/Skylon-space-plane-will-transform-high-speed-aviation.html
More humans in space more often. Should be interesting. :cool:
B.
From the article in The Telegraph:
"The Skylon can take off from a standard runway before accelerating to speeds of 19,000 miles per hour taking people to Earth’s stratosphere in just 15 minutes.
Alan Bond, chief designer of the Skylon said the breakthrough on creating a device that can cool the air entering an engine allowing it to operate normally at speeds of Mach 5 will transform high-speed aviation.
"It enables an aeroplane, very much a fast aeroplane, but an aeroplane nonetheless, to take off, accelerate at up to five times the speed of sound, turn itself subtly into a rocket, fly into orbit, do a job and come back again."
Link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/10182080/Skylon-space-plane-will-transform-high-speed-aviation.html
More humans in space more often. Should be interesting. :cool:
B.