This Private Jet Could Apparently Fly Across the World in 30 Minutes

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This Private Jet Could Apparently Fly Across the World in 30 Minutes

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The Antipode is an airplane designed by Canadian engineer Charles Bombardier that could apparently fly 10 people from New York to London in 11 minutes, or from New York to Dubai in 22 minutes, or from New York to Sydney in 32 minutes. This is how it would do that, via Architectural Digest:

His vision involved a jet that would be shot out of a magnetically charged electric launch system. From there, the aircraft would ignite liquid oxygen in order to rise in speed and altitude until it was moving at such a rate to successfully compress incoming air for engine combustion, burning hydrogen and compressed oxygen to accelerate to roughly 6,600 m.p.h. at 40,000 feet.

Yeah, sure, okay. That sounds terrifying, but what do we know? If you were to explain how any airplane works it would probably sound terrifying, so there's no reason why—oh, what's that you say? It is terrifying? Well, what do you know.

While the concept impressed, it also left difficult design issues on the table (such as the overheating of the aircraft and sonic boom produced from such incredibly fast speeds).

Don't worry, though. Bombardier has improved the design to make it much safer and more feasible and oh wait, he actually just added detachable rocket boosters.

The most important feature distinguishing the new jet from its predecessor (which would employ a magnetic railgun system to launch) is that the Antipode would be able to take off from any airfield, due to rocket boosters attached to its wings. The boosters would provide the craft with enough thrust to climb to 40,000 feet and reach Mach 5. From there, they would separate from the aircraft and fly back to base.

Yeah, actually we just realized there we're not in that much of a hurry."

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Great reading - like the report that scientists now may have come to understand the forces of gravitation.

Think about it, Travel by road has been dominated by the combustion engine for the last 120 years, air travel has been based on the combustion chamber since Tsiolkovsky's Exploration of Outer Space by Means of Rocket Devices in 1903. It is mind boggling to me that we base road and air travel on the same laws of physics and the same technology as 125 years ago. What has imporved is the introduction of sensors and information technology, but not breakthrough in propulsion physics and technology itself. One reason is in the capitalist system. Why launch any tehcnological pf medical breakthrough when we can make a load of money from the resources we have got.

Very Sad really.

This is why Robert Zubrin - despite all his passion and excellence - never will make it to Mars his way, but the way of the rocket technology developers.

I hope we can get a breakthrough in Gravitational Physics and that someone on the inside does a "Snowden" on the knowledge os we get a paradigm shift in the technology of physical displacement.

Carbon - based transportation with ignition chambers is sooo 19th century.
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hhfarang wrote:"... and Probably Not Even Kill You

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The Antipode is an airplane designed by Canadian engineer Charles Bombardier that could apparently fly 10 people from New York to London in 11 minutes, or from New York to Dubai in 22 minutes, or from New York to Sydney in 32 minutes. This is how it would do that, via Architectural Digest:

His vision involved a jet that would be shot out of a magnetically charged electric launch system. From there, the aircraft would ignite liquid oxygen in order to rise in speed and altitude until it was moving at such a rate to successfully compress incoming air for engine combustion, burning hydrogen and compressed oxygen to accelerate to roughly 6,600 m.p.h. at 40,000 feet.

Yeah, sure, okay. That sounds terrifying, but what do we know? If you were to explain how any airplane works it would probably sound terrifying, so there's no reason why—oh, what's that you say? It is terrifying? Well, what do you know.

While the concept impressed, it also left difficult design issues on the table (such as the overheating of the aircraft and sonic boom produced from such incredibly fast speeds).

Don't worry, though. Bombardier has improved the design to make it much safer and more feasible and oh wait, he actually just added detachable rocket boosters.

The most important feature distinguishing the new jet from its predecessor (which would employ a magnetic railgun system to launch) is that the Antipode would be able to take off from any airfield, due to rocket boosters attached to its wings. The boosters would provide the craft with enough thrust to climb to 40,000 feet and reach Mach 5. From there, they would separate from the aircraft and fly back to base.

Yeah, actually we just realized there we're not in that much of a hurry."

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Somewhat far-fetched in many respects - NY to London is almost 3500 miles, so even travelling at 6600mph it would take over 30 minutes ignoring takeoff and landing.
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