The UK Just Spent $90 Million To Build A Plane That Can Fly Anywhere On Earth In 4 Hours
First flight scheduled for 2020.
The UK Just Spent $90 Million To Build A Plane That Can Fly Anywhere On Earth In 4 Hours
By Alex Davies | Business Insider – 11 hours ago
Reaction Engines
A rendering of Reaction Engines' Skylon aircraft in flight.
The UK
will invest £60 million ($91.2 million) into a project to build an
aircraft that would fly in outer space and make it possible to take hundreds of passengers anywhere in the world in just four hours.
The investment, announced Wednesday, is being made through the UK Space Agency.
It will help British aerospace firm Reaction Engines develop a rocket
engine that can run at higher power than what is possible today.
More power means it can fly faster — as fast as Mach 5, chief engineer Alan Bond said in a recent video.The £60 million will be given to the company in two stages: £35 million in 2014/2015, and £25 million in 2015/2016. It will be used to for technical design work, and improving lightweight heat exchanger technology.
Reaction Engines says the heat exchanger, which rapidly cools hot air entering the engine and passed "vital tests" in November 2012, is the first that is light and efficient enough to be used for space travel.
The engine, called Sabre, would power the Skylon, a 276-foot long unpiloted aircraft that would take off and land horizontally, and cost about $1.1 billion to build.
The project has already passed a UK Space Agency technical assessment, Reaction Engines said in a press release, and test flights are planned for 2020. The company says the next phase of development will create about 1,000 engineering and technology jobs, and 2,000 more jobs "in the wider economy."
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The UK Just Spent $90 Million To Build A Plane That Can Fly Anywhere On Earth In 4 Hours
Now here' the rub. Yes. You can fly anywhere in 4 hours time on earth by going up through space and dropping back down quickly. You might reach amazing speeds in space while doing this. However, here is the drawback. Don't expect to get pregnant or ever be able to father children again after doing this. The radiation of space that you are traveling through will allow you still to have sex but will make you unable to have children biologically after making even one 4 hour flight in this way. All astronauts know this. You can't go into space and ever have children biologically after doing so. This is why even the Mercury astronauts like Shepard and Glenn had all their kids before their flights into space.
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