Transatlantic
New York to London in 5 hours.
The machine that moves at the speed of impossible.
Scroll to ignite
A hundred thousand pounds of thrust, bottled.
Titanium blades spinning at 15,000 RPM.
Combustion contained at 1,400 degrees.
All of it, responding to your hand.
Ignite.
The afterburner dumps fuel into the exhaust stream and relights it. The airframe shakes. The needle jumps. The world goes quiet.
Flight deck
Where the impossible
becomes procedure.
Mach 2.2. The horizon bends.
At twice the sound barrier, the air stops behaving. Shockwaves form at the leading edges. The skin heats to 130 degrees. You feel none of it from inside the machine.
Measured, not claimed
Every number on this page is a load the airframe survives.
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Ceiling ft
Transpacific
Los Angeles to Tokyo in 11 hours.
Intercontinental
Anywhere on Earth, nonstop.
Nine kilometres up,
the engines go quiet
and the Earth turns
underneath you.