DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane FLYING TO ANYPLACE IN AN HOUR OR LESS Source: Stargazer Source: Hypersonic Jets Houston, TX-based Venus Aerospace is developing a hypersonic passenger aircraft designed to travel at Mach 9 or 9-times the speed of sound That type of aviation technology would allow you to go anyplace in the world in an hour or less The plane concept is called Stargazer and at Mach 9 it would fly at speeds of 11,000 kilometers per hour or 6835.08 mph Stargazer is being designed to carry a dozen passenger s By comparison, the Concorde supersonic jet flew at Mach 2 and the fastest plane ever recorded flew at Mach 3.2 Stargazer is fueled with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and standard Jet A jet fuel It has a revolutionary new type of engine based on "rotat