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China's New Hypersonic Passenger Plane Can Fly From London to New York in Under 2 Hours (vocal.media)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This article is based on a report from the Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/china-hypersonic-flights-speed-concorde-b2051192.html nowhere does it say they have completed a test flight.

The brand Space Transportation, also known as the company Beijing Lingkong Tianxing Technology, has released an animated video which shows how its proposed “space flights” might look

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's actually hilarious that this outlet thought a animated video was real.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This "outlet" is barely a news outlet and keeps getting posted on Lemmy recently...

Edit: over the past 12 days OP has posted 7 articles posted by the same user. I think I see what's going on here...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

The article does link to that URL behind the line "the first test flight", but that seems erroneous. This story actually seems to be based on this Chinese press release: https://www.spacetransportation.com.cn/news/info/22.html

But it also seems like there's some confusion between an "aircraft test" and a "test flight". I'm not convinced this thing has ever flown.