China designed the aircraft to fly to the United States in just two hours

Chinese designers can carry goods and passengers from Beijing to New York for two hours.

Chinese supersonic planes dramatically shorten the flight time from Beijing to New York. (Photo: SCMP).

Research team led by Cui Kai is planning to build an aircraft at a speed of nearly 6,000 kilometers per hour, taking just two hours to complete the 11,000km route between Beijing and New York, Sputnik. News reported yesterday. Meanwhile, a typical passenger plane needs 14 hours for the same route.

A small model of the aircraft was tested in a special wind tunnel. The prototype has dual design with two stacked wings. The double wing design helps reduce air turbulence and drag, while increasing lift at high speeds, according to researchers reported in the journal Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics.

However, the lifting capacity of the aircraft is much lower than the current models such as the Boeing 737. If the supersonic aircraft model being developed in China is the same size as the Boeing 737, it can only carry The number of passengers and passengers is about one-fourth the size of the competition: about 50 passengers and 5 tons of air compared to the capacity of 700 passengers and 20 tons of cargo.