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China's New Hypersonic Passenger Plane Can Fly From London to New York in Under 2 Hours (vocal.media)

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A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14809770

There was no test flight. This publication saw the animated video and thought it was real.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Since Beehaw isn't federated with the instance you linked, I'll paste the comment you linked here for anyone who doesn't want to mess with opening it externally:

This article is based on a report from the Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/china-hypersonic-flights-speed-concorde-b2051192.html nowhere does it say they have completed a test flight.

The brand Space Transportation, also known as the company Beijing Lingkong Tianxing Technology, has released an animated video which shows how its proposed “space flights” might look

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

This place really loves slop from random garbage sources, we'll share anything with a URL.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And the images are unrelated concept art too. lol