Reply to post: Re: Can an electric powered plane fly supersonically ?

Heir-to-Concorde demo model to debut in October

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Re: Can an electric powered plane fly supersonically ?

If there was an electric way of chucking enough hot gas out behind to achieve thrust by Newton’s third law. Because airscrew type propellors or fans won’t work in a supersonic airflow. The air in Concorde’s Olympus engines had to be shocked down to subsonic before it could be used.

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