Traveling around the world in 80 days seemed incredible in days of old. Traveling around the world in 80 minutes seems incredible today. Only cosmonauts can travel so fast. But things are changing. Specialists at the Moscow Institute developed a model of aircraft that is capably of carrying passengers and cargo to any location of the planet at a speed undreamed-of by modern aviators. Aerospace plane

"The aircraft designed by the institute falls under the class of aerospaceplanes," says the director of the above institute. "It will use a usual runway for taking off and landing, like a usual airplane. But it will fly like a manned spacecraft when in midair," adds he.

The space plane will be able to reach a speed of 30,000 km per hour. According to researchers' estimates, such a speed will enable the space plane to fly from Moscow to Paris in 20 min, from Moscow to New York in 50 min, and from Moscow to Sydney in one hour and six minutes.

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