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China invents most powerful detonation engine for hypersonic flight (www.scmp.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The “revolutionary” air-breathing engine could, in theory, lift an aircraft from a runway to more than 30km (18.6 miles) into the stratosphere and continuously accelerate it to 16 times the speed of sound.

At this velocity, even the longest intercontinental flights could take just one or two hours while consuming less fuel compared with conventional jet engines.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That's a different story, but you can simply look up the research paper.