During a secret flight in 2021, a bulky, heavy-looking aircraft flew high and fast over the Gobi Desert in China, rocketing all the way to Mach 6.5, or 4,987 miles per hour during the 20 minute test. Years later, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a state-run institution, broke the news of the groundbreaking hypersonic flight on a social media post in December 2024, according to reporting by the South China Morning Post.
The Pentagon believes China has the world's most advanced arsenal of hypersonic weapons. However, their technology has also branched off into a different direction that could transform Chinese aerospace—with a commercial hypersonic aircraft.
If China can pull off large-scale production of such a plane, it would revolutionize international air travel as we know it. Hypersonic jets would be able to move people and important goods from Beijing to New York in two hours, a drastic improvement over the 12–14 hours a conventional, non-stop jet currently takes for this journey. |
During a secret flight in 2021, a bulky, heavy-looking aircraft flew high and fast over the Gobi Desert in China, rocketing all the way to Mach 6.5, or 4,987 miles per hour during the 20 minute test. Years later, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a state-run institution, broke the news of the groundbreaking hypersonic flight on a social media post in December 2024, according to reporting by the South China Morning Post.
The Pentagon believes China has the world's most advanced arsenal of hypersonic weapons. However, their technology has also branched off into a different direction that could transform Chinese aerospace—with a commercial hypersonic aircraft.
If China can pull off large-scale production of such a plane, it would revolutionize international air travel as we know it. Hypersonic jets would be able to move people and important goods from Beijing to New York in two hours, a drastic improvement over the 12–14 hours a conventional, non-stop jet currently takes for this journey. |
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