EADS Developing Hypersonic Rocket Plane
EADS Developing Hypersonic Rocket Plane
European aerospace company EADS unveiled a new rocket plane over the weekend that the company hopes will be capable of lying from Paris to Tokyo in just 2.5 hours. Calling the project the “Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation”, or Zehst, rocket plane, EADS hopes to have the craft in operation by 2050. The low pollution aircraft, unveiled at Le Bourget airport the day before the Air Paris International Air Show began, will be able to carry between 50 and 100 passengers.
The rocket / airplane will take off, an EADS spokesman explained, using normal engines powered by biofuel made from seaweed. Once at cruising altitude, the craft's rocket engines would kick in, propelling the vehicle to an altitude about three times that at which airliners fly. The rocket engines will be powered by hydrogen and oxygen, with the only emissions being water vapor. To land, the pilot would cut the rocket engine and glide back down, restarting the regular engines to power the craft through the landing.
EADS hopes to have a prototype built by 2020, and hopes to have the plane in service by 2050. The project, which uses technology that is already available, is being developed in collaboration with Japan. A four meter scale model of the proposed aircraft, which looks similar to the now-retired Concorde, will be on display at the Air Paris show taking place at Bourget Airport this week.
European aerospace company EADS unveiled a new rocket plane over the weekend that the company hopes will be capable of lying from Paris to Tokyo in just 2.5 hours. Calling the project the “Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation”, or Zehst, rocket plane, EADS hopes to have the craft in operation by 2050. The low pollution aircraft, unveiled at Le Bourget airport the day before the Air Paris International Air Show began, will be able to carry between 50 and 100 passengers.
The rocket / airplane will take off, an EADS spokesman explained, using normal engines powered by biofuel made from seaweed. Once at cruising altitude, the craft's rocket engines would kick in, propelling the vehicle to an altitude about three times that at which airliners fly. The rocket engines will be powered by hydrogen and oxygen, with the only emissions being water vapor. To land, the pilot would cut the rocket engine and glide back down, restarting the regular engines to power the craft through the landing.
EADS hopes to have a prototype built by 2020, and hopes to have the plane in service by 2050. The project, which uses technology that is already available, is being developed in collaboration with Japan. A four meter scale model of the proposed aircraft, which looks similar to the now-retired Concorde, will be on display at the Air Paris show taking place at Bourget Airport this week.
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