A Chinese company is developing an aircraft that will fly at a speed up toone mile per second and can cover the distance from Shanghai to New York injust two hours. The current China Eastern’s nonstop service takes around 15hours from Shanghai’s PVG airport to JFK airport in the USA in a Boeing 777widebody aircraft.
However, Space Transportation (known as Lingkong Tianxing Ltd. in China)will launch its 12-seater passenger pod-type aircraft, vertically using twoboosters that will get detached once it reaches cruise altitude.
The boosters will hang from a delta-wing-like structure. After separation,the passenger pod fires up its propulsion system and carries on with ease.For landing, the aircraft will make its final landing vertically, using atripod structure similar to the one used in SpaceX rockets.
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