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China's New Hypersonic Passenger Plane Can Fly From London to New York in Under 2 Hours (vocal.media)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah they really didn't think through time zones there...

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