Inside supersonic nuclear double-decker airliner which can carry 500 people at 1,150mph
dailystar.co.ukLondon, with just three hours needed for the airliner to travel between the two cities.READ MORE: Titanic 'only rediscovered because US military went on top secret nuclear mission'HSP Magnavem has been described as a "fourth state of matter plane" and hopes to provide up to 500 passengers at a time with speedy travel aboard a vessel that looks like a rejected Star Trek ship design.To travel with such revolutionary speed, designer Vinals hopes the plane will be equipped with a compact fusion reactor, which would power the engines and electrics.Utilising the fusion reactor would be rather tricky as current technologies aren't quite ready to handle the immense power that could be adapted onto such a flight.But Vinals is hopeful that within the next 10 to 15 years, that will change and that the weight of the reactor and parts necessary could be reduced.He said that over the next decade these materials "could change and we could reduce the size and the weight up to the point of making it feasible to equip an airplane with this technology".
The hopeful inventor continued: "The application of the future materials, some of these underdeveloped today or in an early stage, like nano structures of graphene, superconductors ultra-lightweight at ambient temperature, magnetic monopole devices, new plasma’s accelerator systems will help to make it possible. "This CFR could generate great amounts of electric energy with zero emissions."Those great amounts of energy would be needed for the 206 MD-DBD Plasma actuators, the huge engines that would control the airflow over the fuselage and wings.
They would also be used to maximise the performance of the plane itself and the speed it can carry itself at, as well as decreasing the level of.
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