A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    To put this in perspective, you could have breakfast in London and make it to New York in time for a mid-morning coffee, with the journey taking just 1.5 hours.

    Uh, let me do the math on that one…

    If I eat breakfast in London at 8am, and then immediately board a Hypersonic jet to New York at 8:30am, I’ll arrive in NYC at 3pm, having missed mid-morning coffee by about 4 hours before I ate breakfast…