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Anyone seen the article in today's herald about the spondolious new "hypersonic" plane that will be so fast, that it will take only 5 hours from Auckland to London? They reckon, that if you have brekkie in Auckland, you can be in London in time for lunch.
By my reckoning, that's more like a 17 hour flight (give or take an hour or two, depending on the time of year). A five hour flight after brekkie in Auckland would surely put you in London in time for a midnight snack?
Freakin' hippy
I'm very excited about this low-level ground-effect plane, scientists say it should be ready for service in the mid 1970's.
Can't wait!
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Antyihg doing 6 times the speed of the current things gets my vote. I've wasted enough of my life in the f'n things and trust me - the excitement wears off soon enough!
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Why on earth would anyone be in that much of a hurry to get to London? The place makes me sick.
Playin' around
I wouldn't stress, by the time it gets here there will be new "security checks" in place to counter terrorism (and Tame Iti), and coupled with how bad Auckland's gridlock has got, the trip will still wind up being longer than it is now.
Kinda like how our "broadband" has been such a let down.
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Yeah I wish they could hurry up as I'm coming home on the 17th from Vancouver. I think 13hours direct. I hate flying it fuckin sucks sitting in a little seat with no leg room. Thank god people are getting fatter so soon they'll give us bigger seats thanks to the fatties. Yay fatties.
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Dude, 13 hours is a luxury. I just came back from Nice - 36 hours including stop overs and what's more, First Class ran out of caviar. Fucking disaster!
Freakin' hippy
For more absurd planes, motorcycles, and helicopters that will never be made, have a look here http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008...-boggling.html
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Yeah, it's a bit shit. It's the 21st century -- where's my feckin' flying car? Why aren't I living in a pink and silver streamlined skyscraper, 3km from the surface?
Particularly, why isn't every flight I catch less than the price of a steak dinner, and supersonic speed? We had the Concorde -- they kept it for only one or two routes and charged an arm and a leg -- then they decommissioned it. Now we're back to subsonic pootling.
Freakin' hippy
You're so behind the times Xerxes, my dad got one in 1957. Now it's gathering dust in his garage, he got it free when he subscribed to Popular Mechanics.
It's a bit crap, though, it's only powered by The Friendly Atom, not Fusion, The Promise Of Tomorrow.
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When you arrive depends on the direction you travel. Against or with the rotation of the Earth. Makes a big difference at those kinds of speeds.
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Sucky blowy hover things. You just wait till Mr Motu sees this.
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Indeed - the ekranoplans are rather unusual machines.
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