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ET experts yesterday unveiled an astonishing Brit breakthrough — ROCKET-powered airliners.
The superplanes carrying 300 passengers are poised to slash flight times to Australia from 21 hours to just FOUR.
Their revolutionary “air-breathing” engines have been invented by UK boffins — who jubilantly confirmed yesterday
they had cracked an overheating problem.
It paves the way for the building of a reusable space shuttle called Skylon — and a 4,200mph hypersonic airliner
called LapCat.
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Passengers to Oz will fly at more than five times the speed of sound.
The key to rocket power was finding a way to instantly cool 1,000°C air entering the engine to minus 150°C. It took
our experts 30 years but they have finally found a way.
Thrilled researchers at Reaction Engines, based at Abingdon near Oxford, hailed it “the biggest breakthrough since
the invention of the jet engine”.
Science Minister David Willetts predicted the engine, called Sabre, would “revolutionise the future of air and space
travel”.
Alan Bond, the engineering genius behind the rocket technology, said: “This is the proudest moment of my life.”
The superplanes carrying 300 passengers are poised to slash flight times to Australia from 21 hours to just FOUR.
Their revolutionary “air-breathing” engines have been invented by UK boffins — who jubilantly confirmed yesterday
they had cracked an overheating problem.
It paves the way for the building of a reusable space shuttle called Skylon — and a 4,200mph hypersonic airliner
called LapCat.
<a href="http://s1267.beta.photobucket.com/user/365Wildfire/library/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj559/365Wildfire/frm00005-36.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a><a href="http://s1267.beta.photobucket.com/user/365Wildfire/library/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj559/365Wildfire/frm00006-29.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a>
Passengers to Oz will fly at more than five times the speed of sound.
The key to rocket power was finding a way to instantly cool 1,000°C air entering the engine to minus 150°C. It took
our experts 30 years but they have finally found a way.
Thrilled researchers at Reaction Engines, based at Abingdon near Oxford, hailed it “the biggest breakthrough since
the invention of the jet engine”.
Science Minister David Willetts predicted the engine, called Sabre, would “revolutionise the future of air and space
travel”.
Alan Bond, the engineering genius behind the rocket technology, said: “This is the proudest moment of my life.”
