For the people of Australia, traveling abroad is basically by air. And as an independent piece of mainland in the southern hemisphere, it takes almost 10 hours to go to Asia, Europe, and America. Even the nearest neighbor, New Zealand, takes about three hours. We are not going out on the first-class of Tuhao, in the economy class can not eat well, sleep is not comfortable, it is simply difficult!
Can you imagine, however, that in the future, it will only take five hours to fly from Australia to Europe!
According to Boeing, the supersonic aircraft it has developed is up to 6, 500 kmph per hour, five times the speed of sound.
What is this concept? Ordinary airliners fly at speeds of 800 to 900 kmm2, and supersonic planes fly at a speed of seven to eight times the speed of the average aircraft! Travelling on this kind of plane will save a lot of flight time.
Mom, you don't have to worry about me on a long-distance flight anymore!
Supersonic aircraft have been reported many times before. At the 2018 Atlanta conference at the American Institute of Aeronautics, the concept plane was finally released.
This aircraft will be larger than ordinary commercial aircraft, smaller than subsonic aircraft.
When asked when the plane could be put into civilian use, Boeing did not provide a clear response.
Indeed, many of the problems currently facing supersonic aircraft have not been broken. For example, although flying faster than the speed of sound, aircraft can make its own noise far behind, and for the ground, the sound explosion can not only shatter glass, but also cause damage to the eardrum. So Concorde is allowed to fly supersonic only over the Atlantic Ocean.
Supersonic aircraft are expected to become operational in the next 20-30 years.
But it's not just Boeing that wants to move.
Not long ago, SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who just sent Tesla into space, put forward the idea of "city rocket."
The rocket service he studied this time is not to carry Tesla into outer space, but to transport people from one city to another!
He claimed it would be the fastest commercial transport ever. It takes only 39 minutes for New York to get to Shanghai! It's only 32 minutes from Los Angeles to Tokyo! In less than an hour, you can reach your destination from anywhere on earth.
The City Rocket of Shanghai in Conception
Open your mind and imagine that you wake up early in the morning and receive a series of emails, your boss on the other side of the planet tells you to go to an emergency meeting now, and then you get to the city port, you get a rocket, and at 27000km/h speed, It took a few minutes to reach the other end of the earth and arrive at the venue on time.
Maybe after work, I can get another rocket to feed the pigeons in Prague Square. After thinking about it, I feel very burning!
Even netizens sighed, Musk's father took us flying!
Musk says he hopes to start building rockets in the next six to nine months. The editor believes that whether it's supersonic planes or city rockets, it's only a matter of time for us to travel fast between cities. Hope our children and grandchildren can catch up!