Airbus gets patent for hypersonic plane
aircraft manufacturer Airbus U.S. Patent managed to produce a hypersonic aircraft flying above the atmosphere. This draft plane would cause the travel time between Paris and Tokyo were reduced from 12 hours to less than three.
According to the Guardian, the patent for this project hypersonic aircraft was approved in the US on Wednesday, August 5, the US Patent Office. Still, Airbus says it is unlikely that this supposed successor to the Concorde fly in the near future.
This aircraft would use Ramjet engines, currently used in missiles, which would reach altitudes of about 30 km and 4.5 mach speed (about 5470 km / h), 4.5 times the speed of sound. This speed would make the 12 hour journey between Paris and Tokyo were transformed in less than three
Airbus has said it is unlikely that this project will be put in place in the near future:. “The Airbus group and its units requesting hundreds of patents every year to protect intellectual property, “said a company spokesman quoted by the Guardian. “Most of these patents end up not become finished products,” he added
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