Scientists from the UK and China have created a new ceramic coating that could be used to develop a hypersonic plane capable of flying between London and New York in two hours.
The new material is being described as potentially revolutionary in the aerospace industry, for its ability to resist temperatures of up to 3,000° C – the level of heat generated by moving at five times the speed of sound.
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