Jets that could fly to Australia in two hours
Mmmm ... well maybe but not in our lifetime methinks. A side-bar in the same story quotes the French GTV as doing 320 mph! Ah well, I guess a kilometre is the same as a mile to a journo. In recent years the Times and Sunday Times would have us believe that:
1: Russian designed jet-powered seaplanes were going to be built in Wales
2: Every UK airport would soon have many single-engine air taxis (Farnborough) sitting and just waiting for pax to arrive.
3: A US company was about to certificate and sell "flying cars" capable of 350kts, vertical take-off and landing & operation by folks without flying experience or training. It's all done by computers you know.
And to think that the great unwashed believe every word of it. bm