Date published: 2008/02/06
The BBC says:
A British firm claims to have designed a hypersonic passenger plane that could one day fly between Europe and Australia in less than five hours.
The A2 aeroplane, designed by Reaction Engines in Oxfordshire, would carry 300 passengers at a top speed of 4,000mph.
The company said the aircraft, which is still at the concept stage, could be operating within 25 years.
It said the A2 would be able to keep a sustained speed of 3,800mph, more than twice the speed of Concorde.
At 143m (156yds) long, the A2 is roughly twice the size of the biggest current jumbo jets.
It would run on a liquid hydrogen engine being developed by Reaction Engines, based at Culham near Abingdon.
How many times in the last forty years has the BBC run a story just like this one?
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