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Europe to Australia in under four hours?

10 January 2012
An artist impression of the A2 hypersonic aircraft, which could travel half way round the world in four hours
An artist impression of the A2 hypersonic aircraft, which could travel half way round the world in four hours

 

A project led by the European Space Agency is looking to develop hypersonic aircraft capable of travelling half way around the world in under four hours. As part of this LAPCAT (long-term advanced propulsion concepts and technologies) project the UK firm Reaction Engines is working on a liquid hydrogen-fuelled aircraft, the A2, able to achieve speeds of Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound). “Liquid hydrogen fuel is mandatory since the specific calorific energy of hydrocarbon fuels is...

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