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Skylon space aircraft engineer of REL managing director Alan Bond told our Book Club: 'We can reduce the world to four hours - the maximum time it would take to go anywhere! And that it also gives us an aircraft that can go into space, replacing all the expendable rockets we use today with a new uncomplicated design.' Tests have begun on a new engine that could launch a plane into space and revolutionize the way we travel - making it possible to reach anywhere on Earth in just four hours. The 270ft Skylon space plane would take off and land from a conventional runway but fly 18 miles above the ground and out of the Earth's atmosphere at five times the speed of sound. Critical tests are now being carried out to make sure the Sabre engine - a hybrid that can operate like a normal jet engine but then switch to rocket mode - is faultless before its developers Reaction Engines Limited (REL) based in Culham, Oxford shire, can unveil it at the Farnborough International Air Show. Reaction Engines Limited, which designed and built the innovative engine, is hoping for a perfect performance so they can then approach investors to raise the £250m needed to take the project into the final design phase. One giant leap for civilian space travel: Scientists successfully test engine for Skylon craft that can fly anywhere on earth in just four hours that can carry a ejection docking pod with new inflatable robotic services for a new space Hotel Industry with a martian platform for example the International Space Station. The Skylon’s innovative engine uses propulsion. The first phase of this new engine uses a special type of pre-cooler heat exchanger that takes oxygen from the atmosphere to be cooled by more than 100C before being compressed into the engine and burned with hydrogen. Moisture in the air would normally freeze, blocking the pre-cooler's pipes in a blanket of frost and stopping it from working, but very cold helium in the piping stops this from happening. The cold oxygen is then used to power the plane. A second phase then kicks in which draws on liquid hydrogen and a small supply of liquid oxygen to propel the plane into space. The approach should save weight and allow Skylon to go straight to orbit without the need for the multiple propellant stages seen in rockets.Mr. Bond continued: 'That is a piece of real Sabre engine. We don't have to go away and develop the real thing when we've done these tests; this is the real article.' Because REL is busy working on a new engine science in the compound park, it has to keep noise to a minimum, so the exhaust goes into a silencer where the noise is damped by a water spray. The exhaust gases are at several hundred degrees, so the water is instantly vaporized, producing huge clouds of steam. Any bystanders get very wet because the vapor just rains straight back down to the ground. So far, 85 per cent of the funding for Reaction Engines' endeavors has come from sole from private investors with book club, but the company may need government support if it is to raise all of the £250m needed for it to move on to completing this new design. Mr. Bond continued: It will give people confidence that what we're doing is meaningful and real - that it's not just science fiction technology new open to tourism and flying to new schedules. So government money is a very powerful tool to lever private investment into a speeding frenzy. ‘Speaking about the engine when it was still in its early stages, technical director and one of the founders of Reaction Engines, Richard Varvill, told the Engineer magazine: ’Access to space is extraordinarily expensive, yet there’s no law of physics that says it has to be this or that way. We just need to prove technology it’s readily viable and as safe as a feather.’ As the sun travels at 500 km a second safe technologies that power up and down will be here to stay. Book club would like to be as sure with all humanities a well it may even may populate other new worlds please god thank you.