Scientists are working on a shape-shifting escape capsule for use with high-speed hypersonic planes which could potentially fly between Europe and Australia in under two hours in future.
Faster than supersonic planes such as Concorde, hypersonic aircraft fly in the atmosphere at speeds over Mach 5.5 and could revolutionize the world of commercial airline travel.
The escape pod is being developed as part of a two-year program called Hypersonic Morphing for a Cabin Escape System (Hypmoces) that will be completed in November.
The project is led by Spain’s Deimos Space, Italy’s Aviospace, and research agencies DLR of Germany and Onera in France.
“[A hypersonic aircraft] will probably require a passenger escape system as the technology for high-energy flight will not be as reliable as for subsonic, mainly the propulsion,” says Davide Bonetti, project coordinator at Deimos told Aviation Week.
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Faster than supersonic planes such as Concorde, hypersonic aircraft fly in the atmosphere at speeds over Mach 5.5 and could revolutionize the world of commercial airline travel.
The escape pod is being developed as part of a two-year program called Hypersonic Morphing for a Cabin Escape System (Hypmoces) that will be completed in November.
The project is led by Spain’s Deimos Space, Italy’s Aviospace, and research agencies DLR of Germany and Onera in France.
“[A hypersonic aircraft] will probably require a passenger escape system as the technology for high-energy flight will not be as reliable as for subsonic, mainly the propulsion,” says Davide Bonetti, project coordinator at Deimos told Aviation Week.
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