It looks as if scientists and aerospace engineers have finally achieved hypersonic flight. Therefore, what was once thought of as a science fiction concept of traveling halfway around the world in just over an hour, is now feasible. Indeed, there are a few bugs to work out, and these flight systems will require quite a bit of math, but we have proven we have the ability to make it happen. That’s a rather noble achievement for humankind, and it’s amazing what we can do when we put our minds to something or believe that we can.

Still, it will be necessary for our hypersonic aircraft to have dual propulsion systems, a hybrid system if you will. One way to do this is to have a shape shifting air intake for the hypersonic aircraft. This will allow it to force air into the intake in such a way to cause combustion at extremely high speeds, and then change the airflow coming to the intake for low speeds and regular jet powered flight within the atmosphere.

Think of it like this, the inside of the air intake of the hypersonic spacecraft/aircraft has a surface, and think of that surface as a piece of grid paper. What we will be doing is changing the contour of the inside of the air intake as the speed is raised, or lowered for the most efficient burn of the fuel that is being used at any particular time.

Once we know the perfect shape for every given true air-speed of the aircraft and altitude, a computer system can run the shape shifting intake to perform at optimum, and therefore, we will always have the most efficient system. This is what we expect to happen in 2010 as these hypersonic systems advance. I hope you will please consider all this.

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