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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by LargoLasskhyfv on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @09:27PM (#33445533)
Only half of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR.N4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSC_Francisco

Maybe a future revival of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle ?

Or some shiny airtaxi vtol running on renewables, electricity, handwavium?

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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by orbital-decay on Thursday November 03, 2022 @12:09AM (#33446869)
Or just a hybrid HTHL vehicle, think SpaceShipTwo with an additional airbreathing engine and some thermal protection instead of a fancy feathered system (not feasible at high velocities). Take off on a quiet engine, get away from cities, make a rocket-powered suborbital jump, vomit in between, re-enter, land quietly across the pond.

(still sounds handwavy and not very realistic, though)

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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:30AM (#33451564)
That sounds like Reaction Engines Skylon / Lapcat A2.
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