The Future Arrives. No Place On Earth More Than 4 Hrs Away.

[N2NH]

Thanks to a new propulsion system developed by a small British company.


Reaction Engines Ltd believes its Sabre engine, which would operate like a jet engine in the atmosphere and a rocket in space, could displace rockets for space access and transform air travel by bringing any destination on Earth to no more than four hours away.
That ambition was given a boost on Wednesday by ESA, which has acted as an independent auditor on the Sabre test programme.
"ESA are satisfied that the tests demonstrate the technology required for the Sabre engine development," the agency's head of propulsion engineering Mark Ford told a news conference.
"One of the major obstacles to a re-usable vehicle has been removed," he said. "The gateway is now open to move beyond the jet age."



Australia has just become as close as a 4 hour train ride.

(http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/28/uk-science-spaceplane-idUKBRE8AR0R520121128)British company claims biggest engine advance since the jet (http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/28/uk-science-spaceplane-idUKBRE8AR0R520121128)

[NQ6U]

Thanks to a new propulsion system developed by a small British company. [...] Australia has just become as close as a 4 hour train ride.

Four hours spent in the air, six hours spend negotiating the TSA (Teatro del Seguridad del Aeropuerto) security checkpoints.

[N2NH]

Four hours spent in the air, six hours spend negotiating the TSA (Teatro del Secuity del Aeropuerto) security checkpoints.

Kennedy wasn't bad. Thorough but fairly fast. Orlando was a joke. Barney Fife with a metal wand and had no idea WTF he was doing.

Trans-pacific/Trans-atlantic there isn't much of a choice.

[w0aew]

Yeah. I'd be more impressed with comfortable seating. When are they gonna fix that technology?

[PA5COR]

Never.
Costs too much seating places = money.
Try flying in those cramped seats when you are like me 7 feet tall, and have your knees in your neck during the flight....:twisted:

[HUGH]

Yeah. I'd be more impressed with comfortable seating. When are they gonna fix that technology?

Yes, applies particularly to the 777 and even more if you have a seat by the emergency exits. Worn out!

[XE1/N5AL]

The uncomfortable seating problem will be solved through human evolution. :)

[W3WN]

Never.
Costs too much seating places = money.
Try flying in those cramped seats when you are like me 7 feet tall, and have your knees in your neck during the flight....:twisted:Oh? Are you related to Fezzik?
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[W8XLR]

When I was a kid, we were told this would be the future:

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Future my ass... It was all a pack of lies...

They told us that by the year 2000, we would all be riding to work on monorails to our automated "push button" jobs, and that the advance of technology would end war, famine, disease and we would have "leisure time". Well, Im still waiting! Why cant I book my vacation to the Lunar Hilton Resort, on Travelocity! Lying rat bastids...

I want Pan Am back!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3oHmVhviO8

[n2ize]

When I was a kid, we were told this would be the future:

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Future my ass... It was all a pack of lies...


Thank God is was... Oh thank Sweet Jesus it was all lies. That looks like a pretty horrid future. Sweet, sweet Jesus, thank God it didn't happen...:lol: