In the BBC News article Could we fly from London to New York in an hour? (Jane, 2015) Jane Wakefield tells us that Airbus has won a patent for a hypersonic plane using hydrogen power which will be able to carry up to 20 passenger at a time and reach it’s maximum speed of 5,512km/h. This is just the conceptualization stage after all and it may take long time before the launch of real product.
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I choose this news because I love to travel and explore new place so I frequently check airline ticket promotion. When I gathered the information, I also take traveling time into account and that’s why I believed when this technology of Ultra-rapid jet is put in used, it will contribute significantly to the tourism industry especially in the term of the accessibility of a destination. For developing country such as Thailand, more tourists mean more income for country improvement and economic development. The short traveling time can also be benefit for business trip which companies can afford to pay a great deal of money to buy their executive’s times.
When disaster happens, we also need the rapid transportation to carry supplies and survival kits. Moreover in some severe situation, every minute means the chance of dead or alive. In recent Nepal quake, many international aid planes arrived in Kathmandu airports and helped many civilians from starvation. It also brought foreign tourists back to their home country – to their family and beloved one. Furthermore, after the recue period, the air transportation boosted the infrastructure restoration and provided the necessary technology which connected Nepal to rest of the world.
Although air transportation has many useful purposed, I preferred using it for travel purpose. And I would be great if I have a chance to ride this Turbo-jet someday in the future.
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I was impressed when I read this story a couple of days ago. It takes me eight hours now to get from Bangkok to Sydney. I would be cool to do that in only one hour! But it doesn't look like the technology will be here this year, or next year.
ReplyDeleteImagine if this and other technology developed as rapidly as computing has done the past few decades!
I've done my two daily blog comments, and I'm only half way through my morning coffee.
DeleteThanks for your comment Peter ! I think maybe it might come sooner than we have imagined.
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That sounds interesting! Long distance causes the passengers be tried. It should be great to go to another place without sticking in an airplane.
ReplyDeleteYour news is very interesting! Nowadays the developed countries such as Japan are planning to construct more faster trains. Why don't they design more faster airplanes too?
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ReplyDeleteIf I can fly from London to Taiwan only for one hour, it would be great. Actually I am hard to imagine that I will study abroad for two years in the UK. So, if I only need to spent one hour for fly that I can come back to my hometown very frequently. But the price of tickets would be really expensive which I might not afford it.
ReplyDeleteMy flight that will fly to UK take almost 17 hours, which is the shortest period I can found, and I have to change flight at Doha, It's quite boring for me taking a whole day on plane. I wish this technological development will be used real soon; however, I cannot imagine how much the cost we have to spend for a ticket!
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ReplyDeleteThis new vehicle seems to provide a lot of advantages as you said if it is developed successfully and become a legal commercial flight in the future. Saving high amount of time spent for flying to other countries would make passengers very pleasant. No one would not like to sit in the plane for long hours or even full day. In case of emergency or having disaster, it would be really beneficial as you mentioned. Yet, someone might be worried about the safety of this high speed trip in the future because if it can move too rapidly, does it affect the body system?
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