How to fly to Kamchatka in 45 minutes?
Paradox: now passenger planes fly at the same speeds as 50 years ago. Can you do it faster?
B. Litvinov, Kursk region
Can. Here is how Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu revealed the prospects for civil aviation using the example of Russian samples of hypersonic weapons: “A hypersonic missile can be made. But making a material that can keep it at temperatures below 2000 ° is difficult. But it's done now! This means that next we can wait for civil aircraft to appear with speeds of Mach 6-7. 45 minutes – and we are in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. “
It's tempting, but … The Zircon hypersonic rocket, for example, reaches such speeds only in the stratosphere. It turns out that the flight from Moscow to Kamchatka will also be suborbital. So far, such a pleasure costs 250 thousand dollars per person.
