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🗓️ 30 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Well, it's part of our ongoing mission here at Right Angle to keep you appraised on the latest |
0:03.4 | developments in the movement to make the future great again. |
0:06.9 | And the Holy Grail of hypersonic travel may have arrived. |
0:10.3 | And strangely enough, it's coming to us from Venus. |
0:14.1 | Hi, everybody. |
0:14.9 | I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and Scott. |
0:16.4 | Gentlemen, I can remember very clearly as a young whippersnapper in seventh grade |
0:20.1 | finishing my reading assignment for the week in about, oh, I don't know, public schools in Miami |
0:25.2 | at the time. |
0:25.7 | I think it probably took me about 20 minutes. |
0:27.2 | We had something called independent study where we got to go to the library and research |
0:30.5 | books and stuff, and that's when I first heard the expression of a turbo ram rocket |
0:34.8 | aerospace plane, which I thought was melodious. |
0:39.7 | There is a company out there called Venus Aerospace that has produced and test fired |
0:45.1 | the holy grail of hypersonic flight and the problem is this. |
0:48.3 | The engines you need to fly slowly are very different than the engines you need to fly very, |
0:52.6 | very quickly. |
0:53.9 | And what that has usually meant is you have to carry two engines, which is just plain dumb. |
0:59.6 | It's just dead weight and stupid, and there's no real solution to that. |
1:03.2 | Have them or dead weight for half the time. |
1:06.3 | Venus Aerospace, I think based in Houston, let me put on my cogitation spectacles here for a moment, |
1:12.5 | has produced something that they call, |
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