{"id":96657,"date":"2019-09-25T04:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/new-hypersonic-engine-poised-to-cut-london-sydney-flight-times-to-just-four-hours"},"modified":"2019-09-25T04:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:02:27","slug":"new-hypersonic-engine-poised-to-cut-london-sydney-flight-times-to-just-four-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/new-hypersonic-engine-poised-to-cut-london-sydney-flight-times-to-just-four-hours","title":{"rendered":"New hypersonic engine poised to cut London-Sydney flight times to just four hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-hypersonic-engine-poised-to-cut-london-sydney-flight-times-to-just-four-hours2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tourists could fly from Britain to Australia in just four hours by the 2030s with a new hypersonic engine being developed by UK scientists, the head of the UK Space Agency has said.<\/p>\n<p>Reaction Engines, who are based in Oxfordshire, are in the process of building a hybrid hydrogen air-breathing rocket that will allow a plane to fly at Mach 5.4 \u2014 more than twice the speed of Concorde \u2014 then speed up to to Mach 25 in space.<\/p>\n<p>Not only would the new \u2018Sabre\u2019 engine allow speedier journeys \u2014 with a flight between London and New York slashed to just over an hour \u2014 but the hydrogen\/oxygen engine would be far greener and cheaper than current air travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists could fly from Britain to Australia in just four hours by the 2030s with a new hypersonic engine being developed by UK scientists, the head of the UK Space Agency has said. Reaction Engines, who are based in Oxfordshire, are in the process of building a hybrid hydrogen air-breathing rocket that will allow a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}