Incredible speed by Lenka Lehenova

Europe and Australia are two big continents which are quite far from each other. If you travel from Europe to Australia, you have to be prepared that you will spend about twenty hours in the plane and flight tickets are expensive as well. In the past if somebody left from one continent to another one it meant leave and not come back. But today there is different situation. Imagine that you would be supposed to be in Australia in less than five hours... Do you think that is impossible? You are wrong! It is possible today. How? We can say thanks to British engineers whose presented plans for a hypersonic jet. The plane called A2 is designed by engineering company Reaction Engines based in Oxfordshire, southern England. The A2 would be 143 metres long that is about twice the size of the biggest jet and could carry about 300 passengers at a top speed of almost 6400kmh that is five times the speed of sound and twice the speed of Concorde. Passengers wouldn't have any windows but I am sure that designers would invent something instead of it, idea is to put screen televisions there and people could have impression of seeing outside. From Brussels to Australia flight time would be about 4 hours and 40 minutes. I think that it is amazing! You can go just only for one day trips to Australia. Of course, it isn't cheap. The price of flight ticket is about 3,500 pounds that is about 4,700 euros and 6,900 dollars. It is like today's first class ticket so it is not so bad. Now, the important question is if the world is interested in it and wants it because it is possible technically so it is up to people to decide it.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080205/tc_afp/britaintechnologyaustraliaeuaviationplane_080205111456;_ylt=AoEaIm_84ljwSY1anRhwA8Ss0NUE

by Lenka Lehenova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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