Hypersonic planes could fly from New York to London in an hour by 2023

By 2023, hypersonic planes could fly from New York to London within one hour and would initially be used to transport sensors, equipment or weaponry. Incidentally, the WaveRider prototype has already flown four times and hit Mach 5.1 and, if everything goes as per plans, the technology could be used to create passenger planes.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 3 June 2015.

US Air Force and DARPA, the Pentagon's research entity, want to have a new and improved hypersonic air vehicle by 2023 because they want to have a hypersonic plane that can cross countries in minutes. A number of tests of hypersonic projectiles have already been carried out.
The authorities are upbeat about the tests so far. Experimental unmanned aircraft developed for the U.S. Air Force have already gone hypersonic in the course of tests off the Southern California coast. The X-51A WaveRider flew for more than three minutes under power from its exotic scramjet engine and managed to attain a speed of Mach 5.1 last year.
This Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is part of a program to create a missile that will have the ability to destroy targets anywhere within hours – it will be travelling at speeds in excess of 3,500 miles-an-hour or Mach 5.
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