Published on : Friday, December 19, 2014
Air travel has become a part of life and people travel extensively to save time to different corners of the world. When it comes to saving time, airlines all over the world are striving to take you from one part of the world to another in mind-blowing time spans.
Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (Sabre) has come up with its fitted jet that can fly five times the speed of sound and reach to any part of the world in just four hours.
Slated to go on test fight in 2019, a British firm called Reaction Engines is working on an aircraft called Skylon, which will have the superfast Sabre and will make long distance travel extremely fast and probable.
The Sabre system can be cooled by over 1,000 degrees Celsius in just .01 seconds without causing ice blockage. This will help the engine to cool faster and also propel it to run faster at high speed reveled engineer Alan Bond, chief engineer at Reaction Engines.
The cooling system will use several thin pipes arranged in a swirl pattern. The pipes will be filled with condensed helium which extracts heat from the air and cools it down to -150 degree Celsius before it enters into the engine.
This aircraft will surely revolutionise the concept of air travel carrying 300 passengers from a distance of Europe to Australia in a matter of four hours in the antipodal world said Bond.
The Aircraft will take off and land horizontally which will make it convenient for reuse. The Skylon aircraft will measure 276 feet long. The Skylon will be without windows, which might not be good news to a few but considering the transport time, passengers will be ready look beyond. However the price attached to travelling on this super tech aircraft will have to be pretty high— so hold your breathe! Future aircraft have to go through extreme redesigning if they wish to adopt Sabre’s new technology. Only 10 per cent of the commercial aircraft will switch to Sabre initially.
The future plans involve travelling to outer space with a capacity of transporting 15 tonnes of cargo.
It’s just a few more years wait for long distant travellers. The Skylon as Reaction Engines is hoping will take its test flight by 2019. The technology behind Sabre will be the biggest leap in the history of air travel since jet engines were invented feels Reaction Engines.
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