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Chinese team test jet engine ‘able to reach anywhere on Earth within 2 hours’

提交时间：3 年以前

Scientists in China claim to have built a hypersonic jet engine—called "sodramjet"—that can fly at 16 times the speed of sound. This means that an aircraft kitted out with such engines could fly anywhere in the world in two hours, according to the scientists. (interestingengineering.com) 更多...

Zachary Colescott

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Bill Bailey 3 年以前 2

Well having an engine that will go Mach 16 is great ..... now develop an airplane/airframe to go with it that won't melt and can carry a useful load.
I suspect the only thing that will come out of this will be a hypersonic missile of some sort.

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matt jensen 3 年以前 2

wylie coyote rocket?

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Robert Blackwell 3 年以前 3

This headline is ridiculous...jet engines don't fly; airplanes do. It as a LONG way from a engine design - no mater how powerful - to a fully functioning aircraft.

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Prime Ribfan 3 年以前 1

Yes, it may be a long way, but you can get there very very fast at Mach 16 :-)

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Gary Magill 3 年以前 0

Cannot agree more with you Robert....a long way to go.

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william baker 3 年以前 0

I was thinking the same thing.

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Richard Woollams 3 年以前 1

This is the aviation version of vaporware.

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FlightSeer 3 年以前 1

Let's see 24, 900 miles in circumference, 2 hours,
so around 12,500 miles per hour.
Oh yeah - THAT is surely practical!

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Ed Chapman 3 年以前 1

Ah! So they’d be able to send Kung Fu flu anywhere in the world in two hours...interesting.........

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NEIL KERZ 3 年以前 -4

Only if they have stolen it from someone else, and if anyone else had one the world would know it. There are two countries with aerospace technology capability to do such a thing, and China is not one of them

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C. WESLEY GRADY 3 年以前 4

I wouldn't be so sure of that. They copy, but they also innovate, so I have no doubt that whatever engine they claim to have is theirs, and was developed in China.

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