Suppose someone made an airliner capable of zooming from London to Tokyo
with a top speed of 5,000 mph. Would would be the minimum realistic G
forces that the passengers would experience going up, and coming down?

Also, wouldn't the vehicle be rather hot once it landed?

Cheers

--mike

Stephen Harding wrote:
Chad Irby wrote:

The X-43A flew this afternoon.

4780 miles per hour.

Not bad.


Especially for a 12 foot length/4 ft wingspan!

Makes it tough to get a ride though.


SMH