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  • I wonder how long runway this thing needs. After all, it's a biger than Airbus A380 which can land on quite few airports.

  • guess what, my dirt plane can drive to russia to japan in 19 years, cool huh?

  • 25 years? Fuck it, I'll just drive there.

  • The U.S. already has Hypersonic aircraft not officially released to the press

  • @Warpath2198 yeah but they aren't commercial... too bad! I can't wait 25 years

  • A variant of this plane is also being developed as a type of space shuttle! Its called the skylon and it should take off and fly like an ordinary plane but be able to achieve LEO by having a hybrid engine (Jet/Rocket)!

  • yea they would also build a space shutle 3 times more efficiant and way bigger than the americans thing is the americans get it made and you rarely ps not american myself

  • Hey guys I got questions:

    How come it must fly in the ozone layer? Doesn't the engine need oxygen for complete combustion of the liquid hydrogen? And the higher you go in alt. the less oxygen right?

    Also, what kind of engines are they using? Turbines still?

    Thanks!

  • all i can say is air crash investigations are going to be back in buissness.

  • all i can say is i cant wait!

  • In 25 years, this will be old-fashioned. Besides, nothing like this has ever been built. So many cool things like the Rockwell X-30 and the Project Valkyrie spaceship have been cancelled. Heck, we can barely even make a manned aircraft that travels at mach 6 for more than a few minutes (X-15), and our fastest airplane travels at mach 3.2. Given this, the chances that we'll have a single-stage-to-orbit (Reaction Engines' Skylon) in 9 years. I'm willing to bet anything that this never happens.

  • @ACfireandiceDC

    It probably won't, but Aerion are developing a supersonic business jet which will enter service in 2014/15, and Boeing are also planning a supersonic jet. Supersonic travel is the future

  • Cocncorde still looks better

  • Lets see if the world last 25 years....

  • About fucking time someone planned this... But if it had adequate funding the US would be able to build it by 2015 :/

  • Great project if realized. These great innovations create the new wealth to Britain, As a passenger there is only one serious drawback, the A2 plane has to be windowless due to the huge static and thermal stresses of flying high and fast. To maintain the fun of flying this must be resolved too. A transparant futuristic composite material like a polycarbonate/graphene layered window perhaps? Who knows.. Great project, hope it will become a reality!

  • 100 bucks it doesn't happen.

  • @PIECE2YOURMOTHA I'll bet ANYTHING it doesn't happen. It will be cool if does, though.

  • 25 years... Damn it.

  • @007bond66 YOU DONT KNOW DOUCHEBAG

  • Get ready for the deadly family-killer A2-ski from Tupelov to be produced in half the time. Damned Russians.

  • @Toxicbowelz its no worse than sitting at an office chair for 12 hours. at least you have the nice views and you get food and water brought to youre seat.

  • Instead of wasting money at the stockmarkets, money should be invested in these kind of great aerospace research projects.. A nation only can become rich by investing in science and technology, not by speculation with money.. This project sounds really great and I hope to see interesting innovations in the field of aerospace coming into fruitation the next decades... After 40 years of stagnation in aviation research it's time to go higher, faster and cleaner! Anthonie, Netherlands

  • if we make air travel too fast it will take the fun out of flying. the nice thing about flying is enjoyin the scenery and views not the time it takes you to get to youre destination.

  • how will they cool that shit ? it was already a problem on the concorde, how will they do ?

  • Fucking americans getting jealous.........AGAIN!!!

    

  • if it ever breaks up in flight, there won't be a piece of you left thats bigger than a thumb.

  • @rickcain2320 Well... at least being instantly blown apart would be better than plummeting into the ground completely conscious.

  • Pure fantasy.

  • Go Britain, capture the glory again and try to keep your sh*t secret!

  • @viewson800

    Fuck you A hole they cant keep shit secret

    you're proud of your country? well see this... British gov signed with the Nazi's

  • The American Air force will never allow a plane impossible to intercept flying in the sky. Do you realize what the Mach 5 speed and 75000 feet flight means? Dog-fighters can't fly over Mach 2.5 and 60000 feet. That do not only make a travel plane, that can potentially be a spy plane too. And you can imagine which possibilities are offered to a plane what is able to break the sky defense, by having more performances than combat planes.

  • @ibuggle plus, your gonna have a high chance of blacking out...

  • @ibuggle wow, first the US air-force threatens the EU, they would shoot down satellites of our (hopefully) soon to be built Galileo system, what´s next? Shooting passenger planes because of possible spy capabilities? Hey guys wake up, we´re your allies.

  • @MTTT1234 Maybe, but the main problem is a plane which is faster than dogfighters and which is out of control of the army.

  • @ibuggle I'd like to see a hypersonic passenger plane try and pull the same manoeuvres as a supersonic dogfighter. Speed isn't everything.

  • @ladders1 Have you heart about sr-71? It wasn't made for dogfight too.

  • @ibuggle It wasn't made to carry 300 people either.

  • @ibuggle Oh yea? What is the US Air Force going to do about it? Declare war on England because they're going to build hypersonic PASSENGER planes that can be construed as dual use aircraft? That's a pathetic argument if I ever heard one.

  • @ibuggle Since when does the America have the right to control what other countries do?

  • It'd be awesome if there was a new version of Concorde that was Hypersonic, along with the supersonic...

  • fuck crashing at that speed.

  • im the 100th person to like this video im freakin awesome!-lolzzz

  • im happy that they are considering the ozone layer

  • looks like skylon. if I won't see a rocket plane by the end of the decade I'm gonna be pretty pissed.

  • Its too fucking big. And look at the size of the wings! Even with slats down and flaps that thing is gonna need a hell of a runway distance. <thats more money and problems. I mean look at the size of the A380. I only desing things that go fast as small as possible. Its good it uses liquid engines, just water comes out. BUT HYDROGEN IS FUCKING HEAVY BEFORE TAKEOFF!!!!! So that means reforcing the runways.

    A2 sounds like a big fail.

    Just make a simple brand new concorde.

  • @G777GUN The weight is the same as a normal Jumbo Jet. Means it can use the same runways even those it is longer.

  • @AHickenUK

    The space shuttle isnt heavy. But when its fully fueled and ready for takeoff it weighs a hell of a lot.

  • @G777GUN There is a massive difference between the altitude a passenger plane flies at the altitude the shuttle reaches. That's the whole point of that much fuel.

  • @ladders1

    True. But those solid boosters dont go all the way to space and they weigh somthing like 200 tons each full. No wait its like 600 tons each.

  • @G777GUN True. But there is still a massive difference between the energy required to nearly entirely escape gravity and the energy needed to work against gravity.

  • @ladders1

    True. But would those solid boosters get to australia if NASA aimed them in that direction. Look at an ICBM. They carry this small amount of warheads on a big rocket.

  • @G777GUN hydrogen is the lightest gas in the universe retard. get a brain

  • @MrEiriku

    Not when its compressed in a cylinder. Check space shuttle fuel tank.

  • @007bond66 prove it douchebag or give me a blowjob

  • austrailasia?!?!?

  • This is the most ridiculous concept ever, I can see about investigating it, but not building or flying a giant tube with no windows. You know what's worse? IT HAS NO PILOTS. Yes, *NO* airmen flying the plane. Why not stick with the older NASA concept, it was a Mach 6 airplane! And it had both pilots and windows. Fly that at 120,000 feet...Not this thing.

  • @VIR092 no pilots? prove it bitch,

  • @MrEiriku First thing's first, learn your damn manners you dick, and no this plane has *no* pilots, research it for yourself. It has no windows because of the extreme altitudes it's capable of flying at. It's the same concept in design features as the Skylon. Pilots control it from a flight station on the ground. You people are such an annoyance.

  • don't like it.

    better space plane than for travel

  • @RaneEarendur

    A nation's combat aircraft serve as a deterrent, and as such governments WANT people to know that they have that level of capability. There is no reason a government would want to pretend they don;t have a particular capability.

    The only "secret" aircraft would be a spy plane, which would not be designed for combat and as such comparing it to a jet fighter is like comparing proverbial apples and oranges. Completely different aircraft with completely different missions.

  • What no windows?!

  • @SouthAfricanAirways1 Maybe screens.

  • @sniperontheroof42 That could work...

  • @SouthAfricanAirways1 Haha! I was thinking the same thing!

  • ---Concorde's Successor---

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    See channel for more info

  • so it would take about 1 hour to usa then? lol

  • Got to love Reaction Engines ltd. Best of luck to them!

  • Anyway, this aircraft won't ever be produced. It's fantasy. There's no market for a hypersonic jet, and just look at the size of it... just imagine the runway space it would use. Not to mention, it's ugly as shit. Who wants to fly on a nuclear missile?

    Pipe dreams. Fantasy. Won't happen. Ever.

  • @TheMarkOfTheBeast1 I think you're being to pessimistic here. It could happen. In fact, I think there's a pretty good chance of it actually entering commercial service.

  • @GamePro0012

    Even if it did, it wouldn't be successful. Nobody wants to fly in a nuclear missile. Basic human psychology. This thing is off-putting to the average person.

  • @TheMarkOfTheBeast1 its not a nuclear misile you fucking low iq retard

  • @MrEiriku

    My point is that it LOOKS like a nuclear missile. -_-

  • I hate that this is getting called "Concorde's successor". How can you even compare this to the Concorde? First of all, Concorde is supersonic, not hypersonic. And secondly, Concorde is a beautiful aircraft; this thing, however, looks like a nuclear missile.

    And this plane will only be needed on very long-haul flights, not medium-haul flights. Concorde did both, so this aircraft isn't filling the gap that Concorde left.

    P.S. Fuck you British Airways.

  • @TheMarkOfTheBeast1 The whole point of concorde was it was the fastest passenger plane. THAT is how this is concorde's successor.

  • correct me if i'm wrong.. mach 1 is approx. (a little more than) 1,230 km/hr .. this thing flies at mach 5?? 6150 kph?? i wonder if the passengers would actually feel comfortable enough sitting in there for 4 hours trip.

    "we are now preparing to enter mach 5.. please remain seated for the next 4 and half hours, do not move your arms or legs during this flight or you may feel nausea. Enjoy the flight."

  • @nekochen The issue isn't speed, it's acceleration. As long as it doesn't accelerate too fast there'd be no problem.

  • Pipe dreams

  • That's 3806 MPH/ 5582 Ft/Sec

  • nice!

  • the fastes 1 is mach 10 10 times the speed of sound

  • susan horny???

  • 25 years crap LOLOL

  • whend a2 had a flight route singapore to jakarta that will be in 1 minutes

  • i dont like short flights...

    fuck 5 hours i want the full 22 hours!! more fun

  • 22 hours fun true but a2 looks cool

  • that company is called reaction engines and theyre currently working on a reusable spacecraft called skylon. they specifically focus on the heat transfer with the exhaust system of the sabre engines. they are based on a huge science park near where i live and its the same place as the 'jet' company who are researching nuclear fusion. i work for a company who installed the alarm systems on all the reaction engines offices and test areas. its pretty awesome shit i can tell you!!

  • i hate planes now.. CANT WAIT TILL THIS COMES OUT (complete sarcasm)

  • whoa....

  • Fly above Ozone layer. Problem solved!!

  • then it would be in space and would have to go faster than that

  • Dear All,

    I have some question about psychology and craetivity:

    (1) Why do we love to day-dream about new aeroplanes in the future?

    (2) How will be the motivation for flying in the future different from that at now? (eg. for school project, for shopping, or daily sport...etc)

    (3) In you opinion, what will aeroplanes look like in the future?

    (4) If flight simulator has program feature to dsign a new future aeroplanes, will it be attractive to players?

    THANK YOU for answer!!! :)

  • Damage the ozone layer my ass. Global warming is a scam, CO2 emissions have no effect on the ozone layer

  • I't Should Be Able To Fly At 3806Mph. :)

  • hydrogen power? there you go..they have all ready developed high tech hydrogen technologies..and the bull shit about hydrogen being no good for car gas technologies still goes on..

  • "may damage the ozone layer, we're not sure yet"

    ya sure. and today's airplanes are curing the atmosphere of oxygen.

  • Whatever happened to HOTOL? Maybe this is "son-of-HOTOL"

    P.S. Why all the talk about Brussels to Australia? Obviously so that all those parasitic Members of the European Parliament can shoot through (at taxpayers expense) to Aussie during the winter in northern hemisphere. Perhaps, by appealing to their hedonism, this thing would get funded. Never, ever trust politicians - they serve only themslves.

  • @Gruntol5 The tight British government wouldn't give any more money to HOTOL. But this is son of HOTOL with some of the same people involved. No doubt military forces everywhere are spying on the project.

  • I feel much safer taking a warpgate to Tokyo from LA.

  • Compared to an Airbus A380, it's HUGE!!!

  • @cookiecave1283

    Shorter wingspan, actually. But yeah, it's got that huge H2 tank.

  • ozone shwozone

  • LOOK AT THAT DUDES EYEBROW LOL

  • @olson5252 He screwed up his Oblivion character creation

  • @olson5252

    ahahahha

  • looks like they just copied the plane from the thunderbirds lol

  • @leemyster2 lol yeah i thought they copied the f 16 too.

  • sh&t

  • "Good morning, this is your Captain speaking, thank you for joining us for the maiden flight of the A2.

    A bit of good news; the weather is not a factor in our flight so we will be in Sydney in under 5 hours. Bad news; we will be traveling at such height & speed that THE FABRIC OF EARTH'S DEFENSIVE BARRIER WILL BE RENT ASUNDER, LEAVING ALL TO DIE OF THE WORST CASES OF SKIN CANCER EVER.

    The no smoking signs are on as this is a non-smoking flight. Thank you for flying."

  • 25 years... Come on! I`m friggin 45 years old by that time

  • well, we'll both be dead by the time they finally accomplish interstellar flight. ^_^

  • floggin a ded horse..

  • did she say her name was Susan Horny? O_o"

  • 25 years ?

    let china do it, it will be up and running in 12 months

  • hahahaha, when u are sitting inside, and it makes a supersonic boom the engines will leave the body and u will be hung in the air!

    anyway why can't they make a super strong sepphere and make passanger seats inside of a particle accelirator, search Project ATLAS. it travels around europe 1890 somthing times in 1 second hahaha. ur in New York, you blink and u find your self in Tokyo Japan. hahaha! Madness!

  • a particle accelerator has its name from what it does: accelerating particles

    particles are no persons

    even a dust particle is impossible to be accelerated

    anyways, u need strong magnetic field all the way just as well as the whole tube must be a super high vac. chamber ect.

    would be easyer to "just" make a huge monorail that fits in a vac. tube (tho no such high vakuum is req. anymore, an ordinary pres. of around 1mbar would be fine

    this would transport EXTREM fast + a low fuel consumption

  • And it'll break up midflight too. They're haveing trouble making their new JL-2 SLBM and their J-10's are breaking up midflight. The Chinese have a problem with advanced material sciences. It's the reason why their new Type 094 SSBN was seen in dock with it's missile compartments open, no JL-2's to arm it.

  • lol, it may be made of plastic though and it would say 'Made in China' everywhere XD

  • It only occurs that if China manufactures it, it won't make untill Sidney without breaking down - as seen for their automobiles... LOL

  • china is no country that invents things

    it uses and copys things...

  • nonsense

  • and crash in another 12

  • @matchbox555 then it will fall apart in a week

  • @matchbox555 HA, let China do it and it will be falling apart in another 3 :D

  • @GattiF50 let america keep it and it will never exsist.

  • @matchbox555 lol''' but true.

  • @matchbox555 but if china does it will blow up.

  • @matchbox555

    And down in 60 seconds.

  • @LuxorCZ this is what china can do watch?v=Ps0DSihggio

  • @matchbox555 wow they can build a prefab apartment block in 3 days! that's a recognized indicator of aerospace brilliance for sure.

  • @tommyboomboom yeah, makes the west look pathetic by comparison

  • @matchbox555 Oh dear. You've definitely got some repressed inferiority issues mate.

  • @tommyboomboom the chinese make the english look pathetic

  • @matchbox555 We don' t have to resort to stealing scenes from Top Gun to make our stuff look cool.

  • @tommyboomboom the english need to learn how to stop their subs from leaking

  • @matchbox555 you're a looney

  • @matchbox555

    Maybe u havent noticed it yet but china has none jet and/or turbine fabricants. They all buy boeing, airbus and lockheed engines and they are either american or russian.

    So why do you base china to get it done in 12months when they never actualy took the challenge on building a regular turbine plane?

    I cant imagine how u can credit china on making better planes faster if they have no historic aviation records.

    Please do tell...

  • @Armigo91 check out the new chinese stealth fighter bitch

  • @matchbox555

    and crash in 12 minutes.

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  • Ride on one of my reverse Re-entry farts

    Mach >25.0 (>19,100 mph) that will fucking send you to the moon free of charge.

  • Erm I think we should probably leave it if it damages the Ozone layer DYA THINK?

  • The model or mock up looks like something out of Thunderbirds...

  • can some1 explain how it would dmg the ozone layer?

  • Well, when you burn fuel and air at high temperatures the nitrogen and oxygen in the air combine into nitrogen oxides.

    They catalytically break the ozone down (O3) into standard diatomic oxygen (O2). Ozone can absorb and alter the wavelengths of UV-Rays into less harmful radiation, regular oxygen cannot, thus radiation levels increase.

  • There are solutions to this, one issue is to better distribute the heat in the combustion chamber so you don't have a small hot flame, but a much larger area that while cooler has the same overall energy. Pre-vaporizing, and premixing the fuel could do this.

    Using a lean fuel to air ratio is also another strategy which works. The amount of air relative to fuel is very high. Modern day with computerized control to make rapid adjustments here and there, we can prevent the risk of a flameout

  • Using low fuel to air ratios do run a risk of a flame-out under certain conditions normally. The idea of using a low fuel-air ratio has been thought of before for decades for the purpose of fuel consumption reduction. However it was hard to manage the risk of a flameout.

    During the 1980's to 1990's, NASA along with a variety of aircraft engine companies developed a combustor that could operate using pre-vaporized, premixed fuel at a lean fuel/air ratio. It was called the LPP combusstor

  • The LPP (Lean Premixed Prevaporized) design was developed for the HSCT program which was basically geared around developing the technological base for which to build hypersonic and supersonic (Mach 2.4 was the predominant target, but designs from Mach 2 to Mach 10 were studied) designs that were environmentally friendly, quiet, and economical.

  • look people this would be awesome imagine aerospace travel making an advance like that WOW if say one did (pray to god it doesn't) crash while in transit with passengers i don't really think the clean up crew is gonna have much to do at the impact site seems all the jets energy upon impact would go directly into debris would most likely scatter 15 miles or more outward those onbord the jet well i think you know how thats gonna go

  • Trust me, if this plane is actually ever built, military will get first dibs on flying it, lol

  • What do you think goes on in Area 51? They don't sit around all day TALKING about planes. They probably have several types of planes like this which they have been keeping secret.

  • Nonsense, there are already planes under development that will be able to leave that in the dust.

  • @CVKent317 what airplanes? im interested

  • I'll never take this plane........ 66,666 views

  • hahahahaha! oh yeah huh? :) I wouldn't either if that was the flight number!

  • @24nomatter why not ?????

  • @24nomatter wheyyyyyy, its all fun n games!

  • @24nomatter i would, the flight number has nothing to do with safety, as you'd know if you're a rational human being ;)

  • Thats Great Britain for you... Always pumping out the greatest creations in mankind...

  • yeah you keep telling yoursself that....

  • I found out , why this plane has only 300 passenger seats , because there are two tanks . One is full of fuel and one is full of oxygen , because oxygen is most needed for passengers to breathe in the hypersonic speed .

  • that sucks weres the windows

  • You don't want windows on a plane going nearly 4,000 miles an hour near the edge of space.

  • yes you do :)

  • why, because it might crash? hahahah sorry i couldnt resist it hahaha.

  • A bit to fast for windows ey?

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  • that shorta sucks, cause i was hopping that it would be able to like carry 1000 passengers, i wasn't expecting 300 because it's like twices as big as the Airbus A380 and yeah with a double decker jst like the airbus a380...

  • Aww just in 25 years? Wow thats fast? Dang it I wont get to fly it :(

  • that guy cant sit still ..

  • wow either way u still damage the ozone layer

  • 25years? are you having a fucking laugh or what?!?!?!?!?! the technology is here for an aircraft that could fly at 10,000mph its just our goverment are more concerned about robbing us the fucking wankers!

  • What about the development and production time? Not to mention the amount of time before the British or whatever government decides to fund this thing.

  • yuh ok it could take a long time to build yes i understand..but! goverments are more concerned about getting taxes from us! stop spending money on fucking useless shit E.G. the iraq war witch cost the USA billions and billions one solution is pretty simple and could save you money just drop a fucking nuke on the cunts thats how i see it! goverments around the world waste so much money its unbeliveable! i think humans will be extinct in about 200years anyway the ruining the planet witch it wrong