From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Date: Fri Jun 27 1997 - 12:04:00 MDT
Anton Sherwood wrote:
>
> Mike Lorrey points out
> : [...] The
> : Voyager and Galileo probes have acheived speeds over 100,000 mph. [...]
>
> How that's relevant to air travel, I have no idea.
> I don't want to spend years accelerating on my way to Rome.
>
Ah, true, but I thought you were referring to top speed acheived, not
airspeed. As for airspeed, there really isn't any point going above Mach
3-6 unless you are either going into orbit or a ballistic trajectory,
and impossible to go over orbital velocity (Mach 25) unless you plan on
going into space. Given that aerospace planes are in the near future
(5-15 years), this will give us 45 minute flight times to any point on
earth, which will be the practical limit until someone invents
teleportation, if they can. I think that these two reference points keep
us on the curve, don't you?
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