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Old 01-21-2011, 04:20 AM
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Originally Posted by JG27CaptStubing View Post
The point of the Scramjet is to develop new engines for future travel... Mach 7 in a passenger capable plane would be pretty revolutionary. You could be somewhere in minutes as opposed to hours.
Passenger travel would be a very, very long way down the road. Primarily this technology is being developed for getting payloads into space in a far cheaper way than today with huge rockets.
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