When This Hypersonic Plane Comes To India, Flight Time Will Be Reduced By 10 Times

Have you ever flown from Mumbai to London? Anyway, it takes from eight to 11 hours for this flight, but that’s about to change.

Located outside Oxfordshire, England, Reaction Engines Limited company is planning to make a hypersonic flight that will help you fly from Mumbai to London within an hour. Yes, you got it right, one hour. Times Travel reported that if the plan goes well, the flight may really come true. This flight will be direct, with no layovers.

It was also reported by Times Travel that the speed of this hypersonic flight will be 62,442 kilometers per hour, which is crazy fast. The organization behind this flight also said that the plane’s cooling system passed the test, this is essential because the heat generated inside the engines is among the reasons preventing hypersonic planes from coming to reality.

In particular, Reaction Engines has recently tested the precooler component built for the SABRE engine design. The test showed successful cooling of the air at up to 420 degrees Celsius at Mach 3.3. The developers even want to further perfect SABRE engine cooler so that it can cool down the air of up to 1,000 degrees Celsius, which results at Mach 5.

As exciting as this may sound, the report also noted that the flight will be expensive. However, over time, it will get more affordable for us too.

Plus, it may take several years to design the plan as well as make it operational. But once the work is done, the travel time can reduce by up to 10 times, just imagine that.

The last time we saw and heard about hypersonic air travel was from over a decade ago with the Concorde. The plane could fly at an average speed of over Mach 2 (2,179 kilometers per hour). The fastest flight it conducted was from New York to London, taking only 2 hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds.