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Chinese team test jet engine ‘able to reach anywhere on Earth within 2 hours’

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Scientists in China claim to have built a hypersonic jet engine—called "sodramjet"—that can fly at 16 times the speed of sound. This means that an aircraft kitted out with such engines could fly anywhere in the world in two hours, according to the scientists. (interestingengineering.com) More...

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MrWidgeon
Bill Bailey 2
Well having an engine that will go Mach 16 is great ..... now develop an airplane/airframe to go with it that won't melt and can carry a useful load.
I suspect the only thing that will come out of this will be a hypersonic missile of some sort.
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yr2012
matt jensen 2
wylie coyote rocket?
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rblackwell3
Robert Blackwell 3
This headline is ridiculous...jet engines don't fly; airplanes do. It as a LONG way from a engine design - no mater how powerful - to a fully functioning aircraft.
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Primeribfan
Prime Ribfan 1
Yes, it may be a long way, but you can get there very very fast at Mach 16 :-)
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g776699
Gary Magill 0
Cannot agree more with you Robert....a long way to go.
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williambaker08
william baker 0
I was thinking the same thing.
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rwoollams
Richard Woollams 1
This is the aviation version of vaporware.
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FlightSeer
FlightSeer 1
Let's see 24, 900 miles in circumference, 2 hours,
so around 12,500 miles per hour.
Oh yeah - THAT is surely practical!
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Stormy105
Ed Chapman 1
Ah! So they’d be able to send Kung Fu flu anywhere in the world in two hours...interesting.........
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cancer4915
NEIL KERZ -4
Only if they have stolen it from someone else, and if anyone else had one the world would know it. There are two countries with aerospace technology capability to do such a thing, and China is not one of them
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upchucked
C. WESLEY GRADY 4
I wouldn't be so sure of that. They copy, but they also innovate, so I have no doubt that whatever engine they claim to have is theirs, and was developed in China.
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