A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.
- Naich ( @Naich@lemmings.world ) 44•2 months ago
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14809770
There was no test flight. This publication saw the animated video and thought it was real.
- Zoop ( @Zoop@beehaw.org ) 15•2 months ago
Since Beehaw isn’t federated with the instance you linked, I’ll paste the comment you linked here for anyone who doesn’t want to mess with opening it externally:
This article is based on a report from the Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/china-hypersonic-flights-speed-concorde-b2051192.html nowhere does it say they have completed a test flight.
The brand Space Transportation, also known as the company Beijing Lingkong Tianxing Technology, has released an animated video which shows how its proposed “space flights” might look
- Comment105 ( @Comment105@lemm.ee ) 4•2 months ago
This place really loves slop from random garbage sources, we’ll share anything with a URL.
- DarkThoughts ( @DarkThoughts@fedia.io ) 2•2 months ago
And the images are unrelated concept art too. lol
- Pete Hahnloser ( @Powderhorn@beehaw.org ) 15•2 months ago
This feels like a “may be able to” situation. Once they’ve completed a flight from New York to London, I can get on board with the notion of them being able to fly from New York to London.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English12•2 months ago
Do the passengers survive?
- seathru ( @seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ) English11•2 months ago
60% of the time, it works every time.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 3•2 months ago
The best technology ever stolen. That’s why they named their company Bejioing.
- Hirom ( @Hirom@beehaw.org ) 8•2 months ago
There’s the environmental impact: these ultra-fast planes burn through massive amounts of fuel, releasing far more emissions than regular aircraft
Hypersonic flights are a way to get us to a NON-inhabitable earth faster than ever before.
- millie ( @millie@beehaw.org ) English6•2 months ago
The “can” in this title is pretty disingenuous.
- HatchetHaro ( @HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•2 months ago
that went well for concorde, didn’t it?