Experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a concept of a hypersonic passenger aircraft. According to engineers working on the project, their plane can fly the distance between Beijing and new York in two hours. Project leader Cui Kai, said the pace of new aircraft can be up to six thousand kilometers per hour, which means that this plane will fly seven times faster modern aircraft.
Now the developers have created a smaller copy of the hypersonic aircraft, which has been tested in a wind tunnel, used also for evaluation of the quality of modern Chinese weapons. During testing, engineers were able to overclock a copy of the aircraft up to a speed of 8.6 thousand kilometers per hour, and then found that the model copes and behaves very well. Because of the unusual shape of the wings created by Chinese experts, this aircraft can carry much more payload than similar planes currently in development and under testing. Engineers explain that if you make them supersonic aircraft the size of Boeing 737, it can carry up to five tons of cargo and 50 passengers, while the Boeing 747 is capable of carrying up to 20 tons of cargo and 200 passengers. But, on the other hand, he is not hypersonic.
Deadlines the development of this aircraft engineers are not called, so it’s hard to say exactly when we will be able to fly from new York to Beijing in just two hours. One can only hope that soon.
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Chinese engineers have introduced the concept of a hypersonic passenger aircraft
Vyacheslav Larionov