Somebody may have been thinking of Star Wars when writing the article:
New Boeing aircraft project travels from Brazil to Japan in 3 hours.
According to the company, it would be able to travel more than 6 thousand kilometers per hour, speed equivalent to five times the speed of light.
Don’t fret Brazilian SciFi Fan/Editor, one day Boeing will be able to build us some FTL ships.
Never stop dreaming… but just not on company time.
I have a standing rule about flying foreign flag carriers, has to do with the quality of maintenance. One trip I was on in Brazil I flew on TAM, and in the inflight mag there was a page where they highlighted their fleet (obvious chest puffing). One thing that caught my eye in the translation was instead of saying flight time, it said fright time! 🙂
That’s right up there with MSM “science” editors stating that 100 miles above the earth there is no gravity. Guess the moon (among other things) didn’t get the memo.
The speed of sound and the speed of light are not the same thing.
The speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second.