{"id":98880233,"date":"2015-11-02T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/fly-from-london-to-new-york-in-hour-no-really\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T18:10:15","slug":"fly-from-london-to-new-york-in-hour-no-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/fly-from-london-to-new-york-in-hour-no-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly from London to New York in \u00bd Hour (No, Really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Traveling to other continents is fantastic, but, truth be told, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyluxtravel.com\/business-class-flights\/flights-to-london-lon-united-kingdom\/\">transoceanic flights<\/a> can often be long and uncomfortable (especially if you aren\u2019t able to sleep on a plane). However, thanks to an innovative new concept aircraft called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-drive\/culture\/technology\/passenger-plane-concept-could-travel-five-times-the-speed-of-the-concorde\/article26950644\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skreemr<\/a>, we might be on the cusp of bidding adieu to those grueling multi-hour flights.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Imagine you\u2019re in London, boarding a luxury aircraft that holds seventy-five passengers. It\u2019s unlike any plane you\u2019ve seen before, with four wings and two large rockets in the rear of the aircraft. Once you\u2019re safely buckled it, the plane launches at an extremely high speed, thanks to the combined efforts of an electric launch system, a magnetic railgun, and liquid-oxygen or kerosene rockets. You\u2019re soon traveling at Mach 4 (twice as fast as the Concorde, in case you were wondering), eventually reaching speeds over Mach 10 (yes, that\u2019s ten times the speed of sound, or 7673 MPH). The best part: As soon as you\u2019re off the ground, you\u2019re already thinking about your descent into New York in about a half an hour.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>This is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scramjet_programs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scramjet technology<\/a>, currently being developed and tested by the U.S. and China for military use. Designs by Minnesota-based Ray Mattison for a future passenger plane using Scramjet technology were recently released. Granted, we civilians may have to wait a while for the rapid travel experience I describe above, but I\u2019m a patient person\u2026 just not always on transatlantic flights.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"highlighter--hover-tools\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div id=\"highlighter--hover-tools--container\">\n<div class=\"highlighter--icon highlighter--icon-copy\" title=\"Copy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"highlighter--icon highlighter--icon-change-color\" title=\"Change Color\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"highlighter--icon highlighter--icon-delete\" title=\"Delete\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traveling to other continents is fantastic, but, truth be told, transoceanic flights can often be long and uncomfortable (especially if you aren\u2019t able to sleep on a plane). However, thanks to an innovative new concept aircraft called\u00a0Skreemr, we might be on the cusp of bidding adieu to those grueling multi-hour flights. &nbsp; Imagine you\u2019re in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98922861,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880233\/revisions\/98922861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}