Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences claim that they have created a hypersonic jet that can travel at up to 3,800 miles an hour. A scaled-down version in testing conditions managed an even greater speed of 5,343 mph.
Writing in the Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy journal, Cui Kai said: “It will take only a couple of hours to travel from Beijing to New York at hypersonic speed.
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