This Plane Can Take You Anywhere in the World Within Four Hours

The British Aerospace Company Reaction
Engines Limited is currently working on
an engine that will allow a plane to go
to any destination on earth in 4 hours.
The plane will be able to carry 300
passengers. Oh, and it will also be
able to fly to space.

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The engine installed in the plane is
called SABRE. The novelty of this engine
is that it employs a revolutionary
precooler. The contraption swallows air
and cools it at an alarming rate of 400
Mega Watts. This will allow the air to
cool more than a 1000 degrees
Celsius in a single one hundred and
fiftieth of a second. The air will be
cooled to -150 degrees Celsius in the
precooler, which contains condensed
helium in thin pipes, before entering
the engine.

The engine will be used in two planes,
one called LAPCAT will be used to
transport passengers from Sydney in
Australia to Brussels in Belgium in two
to four hours. The second plane is
called Skylon and is part of a joint
project with the European Space Agency
to grant cheaper and easier access to
space.

Skylon would cost $1.1 Billion apiece,
be 82 meters in length and would get
rid of windows completely. This maybe
a bummer to some folks but altogether,
this will provide for innovation. The
airline industry is looking to experiment
with wraparound view screens that will
show changing scenery, maybe that
would be better than staring out the
window trying to get a good look of
what just passed by.
SABRE will begin testing in 2019.