Imagine having a late breakfast in Europe and then dinner in Australia, all in the same day. (No time zone trickery involved.) And imagine, too, paying no more for that junket than you would for a current business class ticket. That's the kind of itinerary, and pricing, promised by Reaction Engines , a U.K. company working on the design of a hypersonic aircraft called the A2. It's an ambition that runs on liquid hydrogen fuel.
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- P51, and Spitfire were dogs comepared to the Coursar.
- Come on, the F4FU Douglas Coursar, was the fineness combat aircraft built in WWII. It ran circles around the P51. As a Land or Sea based Aircraft it had NO equal. Enough said.... (Read the rest)
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 Emergency landing... hugh@... | 02/06/08 |
| RE: (Images: High-speed hopes for the hypersonic A2) cr12574@... | 02/06/08 |
  Concorde cost 3 to 4 times more per passenger Dr_Zinj | 02/06/08 |
| RE: (Images: High-speed hopes for the hypersonic A2) gregzdnet | 02/06/08 |
 foreigners not able to do accomplish the task? what are you talking about winegirl | 02/06/08 |
| Rebuttal itpro_z | 02/06/08 |
| LOL, Am I supprised - NOT Biff-NZ | 02/06/08 |
| You should be suprised maldain | 02/06/08 |
| Personally, I would rank the P51 ahead of the Spitfire. itpro_z | 02/06/08 |
| P51 a fantastic plane but... Cayble | 02/08/08 |
| P51, and Spitfire were dogs comepared to the Coursar. mfpezok@... | 02/13/08 |
| Belly Laugh! shanedr | 02/08/08 |
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