http://lm.?u=http%3A%Passengers could travel from London to Sydney in just 90 minutes in a new hypersonic plane which reaches 20 times the speed of sound.
It sounds like travellers on the SpaceLiner will have to hang on – the two-stage machine blasts up to 50 miles up using hydrogen-oxygen rocket.
It then ‘glides’ through the upper atmosphere at up to 20 times the speed of sound.
The SpaceLiner could take off by 2030 – although the team behind it admit they need to find the small matter of $33 billion first.
Martin Sippel, head of the Spaceliner project at DLR’s Space Launcher Systems Analysis Group, said, ‘We have several hundred million passengers traveling intercontinental distances each year and we think space should have a tiny portion of that.
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‘Even if the share will only be 0.2%, from a space perspective that’s a potentially huge impact.’
Boarding the SpaceLiner would be very different from boarding a normal flight – the machine will sit upright on the launch pad, like a space vehicle.
At launch, rocket boosters will carry the plane up to 50 miles above the Earth, using hydrogen-oxygen engines.
The two parts will then separate – just like America’s Space Shuttle – with the rocket booster returning to Earth autonomously.
The passenger section – with room for up to 100 people, according to current plans – will then glide through the upper edge of the atmosphere, reaching speeds of 4.3 miles per second.
At landing, it will glide in much like a normal plane.

Nice concept....kinda scary though!

Im not impressed, village witches move at a faster pace