DailyDirt: Flying Faster Than The Speed Of Sound

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Supersonic flights haven't been available to the public since the Concorde (and the lesser known Tupolev Tu-144) stopped flying. The economic reality of flying faster than the speed of sound doesn't look too profitable, but maybe someday an airline will figure out a way to do it (and do it safely AND quietly). Or maybe we should just look forward to riding trains inside evacuated tubes. After you've finished checking out those links, take a look at our Daily Deals for cool gadgets and other awesome stuff.
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Filed Under: concorde, hypersonic, planes, supersonic, transportation
Companies: airbus


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  1. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 5 May 2016 @ 5:02pm

    The short URLS are all the same, and none refer to the articles. :

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  2. icon
    William Jackson (profile), 5 May 2016 @ 5:35pm

    URLS broke

    All point a time DDT article

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  3. icon
    Michael Ho (profile), 5 May 2016 @ 6:01pm

    Re: URLS broke

    Oops. fixed now.

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  4. icon
    JoeCool (profile), 5 May 2016 @ 6:37pm

    Hmmm

    Well, I hope that the Airbus patent is more than "put rockets on a jet" because that boat left the dock decades ago. :)

    However, knowing patents like we all do, I doubt it's even that much.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  5. icon
    Marc John Randazza (profile), 5 May 2016 @ 6:41pm

    If I'm at Mach 5, I won't get cranky about not having in flight wifi.

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    Ninja (profile), 6 May 2016 @ 6:40am

    Re:

    Really, at this speed you'd get to the destination before you even finish typing the password and authenticating the connection.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  7. icon
    nasch (profile), 6 May 2016 @ 1:07pm

    Re: Re: URLS broke

    Still broken in the RSS feed, don't know if you can fix that or not.

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  8. icon
    nasch (profile), 6 May 2016 @ 1:09pm

    Patents

    A hypersonic cargo plane has been patented by Airbus

    Patented - but not built. So Airbus can just write up some papers with nothing to back it up, and now nobody else can do this for 25 years. Great.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  9. icon
    Michael Ho (profile), 6 May 2016 @ 4:57pm

    Re: Re: Re: URLS broke

    Well.. it's "fixed" in the current RSS feed, but I think if your RSS reader doesn't update, then... there's not a lot we can do about it now.

    link to this | view in thread ]


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