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Chinese breakthrough engine seeks to reduce flight times to half an hour (www.msn.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Espiritdescali to c/futurology

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[–] Lugh 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm guessing if you were going to be able to travel at Mach 16, an entirely new type of airplane architecture, built with new types of material is going to be needed.

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[–] Espiritdescali 2 points 1 month ago

We already have military planes that go pretty close to that, and missiles go at Mach 20 so we have the technology

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